The next phase of the Executable Research Article project will focus on reducing barriers to the authoring and publication of reproducible research papers.
Europe’s open access advocates set out a vision for system-level reform to make scientific publishing faster, more open and scholar-led.
Test-takers who took the GRE in 2012-13 were more likely to be a bit younger and a bit more science-oriented than those who took the exam the year before.
P Shravan Kumar aka Akiraa launched Research Funders, a platform to connect scientists with potential donors who can help fund their research and projects.
Universities and academics cannot live without the Research Excellence Framework, but we need to go back to a simpler form of measurement, argues Peter Scott
An outpouring on Twitter highlights the acute pressures on young scientists.
More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter calling on the discipline to stop working on predictive-policing algorithms and other models.
Can word patterns from grant abstracts predict National Science Foundation (NSF) funding? The data describe a clear relationship between word patterns and funding magnitude: Grant abstracts that are longer than the average abstract, contain fewer common words, and are written with more verbal certainty receive more money.
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
Swiss universities called on the Federal Council on Monday to resolve a long-running treaty saga with Brussels, or risk scuppering the country's chances of a research deal.
Articles about doing a PhD tend to focus on the difficulties faced by research students: here we argue that the scientific community should also highlight the positive elements of the PhD experience.
Scholarly articles are distributed almost exclusively in digital form. While there is an increasing number of journal articles freely available via green or gold open access, the majority of them still can only be read if the reader works at an institution with a subscription to the journal..
Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small.
The gender and racial gaps in scientific professions illustrate the need for greater inclusion at all levels.
After hundreds of manipulated images were detected across 40 scientific journals, the real work will be to correct the scientific record.
Scientists working on the issue have often said that, once upon a time, they assumed, if they did their jobs, politicians would act upon the information. That, of course, hasn’t happened.
The near-romantic spirit of adventure and exploration that inspired young scientists of my own and earlier generations has become tarnished.
Young international researchers call for more funding and diversity in science communication.
