Science's Data Secrecy Problem
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
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.
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.
“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?
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
Scholars push for free access to online citation data, saying they need and deserve access to the reference data they helped create.
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?
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.
Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.
Offering seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.
Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
The awarding of the grants comes as the Trump administration has proposed slashing federal science budgets and has dropped out of the Paris climate accord.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
Only 14 percent of all engineers in the U.S. today are women, and the gender imbalance continues, or even worsens, when women enter the workforce.
Moves to create a multi-speed Internet could push science into the slow lane.