Elsevier’s Open Access journals as of 2016.

Evidence that women and men are judged differently when they co-author papers.

How can firms benefit most under economic downturns?

A survey of 2,955 readers of 40 randomly selected science blogs.

While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time.

Among the wider scientific community, there is a widespread dissatisfaction with the current level of transparency and reproducibility in published research and, as part of our response to this, we signed up to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines (https://cos.io/top/).The objective of the TOP guidelines is to encourage transparency, openness and reproducibility in science. By developing shared standards for openness across journals, it is hoped to change the current incentive structures to drive researchers' behaviour towards more openness.

A series of measures improving research efficiency and robustness of scientific findings by directly targeting specific threats to reproducible science.

The potential for open scholarship to improve university research and education, as well asincrease the impact universities can have beyond their own walls.

Time devoted to research is increasingly precious to us in academia. We chastise ourselves for not being able to keep up with the huge volumes of current literature. If only there was some way that all the latest literature on a particular topic could be packaged together for us, and delivered right to our inbox without us even having to lift a finger! Now, what would we call such an improbable utopia – ah yes, peer review.

A set of best practices for scientific software development, based on research and experience, that will improve scientists' productivity and the reliability of their software.

Using Census Data to Inform Policy and Career Decision-Making

Principles promote access to Federal government-supported scientific data and research findings for international scientific cooperation

Answers of the annual Edge.org question posed to leading thinkers and scientists.
 

Highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers.

Science popularization inclines laypeople to underrate their dependence on experts.

Searching Google Scholar in 16 languages revealed that 35.6% of 75,513 scientific documents on biodiversity conservation published in 2014 were not in English.

A current debate about conflicts of interest related to biomedical research is to question whether the focus on financial conflicts of interest overshadows “nonfinancial” interests that could put scientific judgment at equal or greater risk of bias.

Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.

Publication bias, in which positive results are preferentially reported by authors and published by journals, can restrict the visibility of evidence against false claims and allow such claims to be canonized inappropriately as facts.

A study that assesses which specific title characteristics influence the likelihood of being included in the “Altmetric Top 100”.

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Evidence from Web of Science showing that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities.

Analysis casts doubt on fears that ‘publish or perish’ culture undermines quality.

The National Institutes of Health needs to make radical changes to ensure that biomedical research continues to thrive in the United States.

10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.

A joint guide by the CNRS and the French Conference of University Presidents.

A basic set of rules to improve figure design and to explain some of the common pitfalls.

The Royal Society comments on Science and Technology Select Committee report.

An analysis focusing on the efficacy or durability of GM Bt crops and ties between the researchers carrying out these studies and the GM crop industry showing that ties between researchers and the GM crop industry were common, with 40% of the articles considered displaying conflicts of interest (COI).

It is hard to see why some papers published in relatively obscure journals are highly cited, whilst others in more accessible outlets virtually ignored.