One Way to Fix Reproducibility Problems: Train Scientists Better
Leonard Freedman, president of the Global Biological Standards Institute, discusses the causes of irreproducible science and his latest effort to spread best practices.
The U.S. Leads in Artificial Intelligence, but for How Long?
The U.S. Leads in Artificial Intelligence, but for How Long?
Government policies overshadow AI’s biggest gathering.
The Wikipedia Competitor That's Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy
Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.
Harassment in Science Is Real
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom
An report on US threats to academic freedom in science, particularly in the areas of international scholarly exchange and climate science.
Commitment to Science Begins to Pay Off
A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.
Is Media Driving Americans Apart?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Open Journal Systems Is Not for Sale
With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.
Science's Data Secrecy Problem
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought
The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.
An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Spotting Shady Statistics
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
Book Dissects Research Fraud from an Organizational Level
Using a database of 750 cases of research fraud from around the world, professors examine fraud as a phenomenon, tracing its history and trajectory and looking at what can be done about it.
New Tools Track Article Buzz Online
“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?
Why Garbage Science Gets Published
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
References and Citations for All
Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.
The Misinterpretation of P-Values
We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?
New Feature Aims to Draw Journals Into Post-Publication Comments on PubPeer
The Journal Dashboards allow journals to see what people are saying about the papers they published, and allows readers to know which journals are particularly responsive to community feedback.
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.