A report providing guidance to the NSF on how to best encourage ethical practices in scientific and engineering research, utilizing big data research methods and infrastructures.

A review showing that some metrics in widespread use cannot be used as reliable indicators research quality.

The revised Code addresses recent and emerging challenges emanating from technological developments, open science, citizen science and social media, among other areas.

Analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies, and 27 subject areas.

Research policy observers are increasingly concerned about the potential impact of current academic working conditions on mental health, particularly in PhD students. One in two PhD students experiences psychological distress; one in three is at risk of a common psychiatric disorder.

Over a 27-year period, 10% of NIH grants generate a patent directly but 30% generate articles that are subsequently cited by patents.

Baby boomers and retirement policies are contributing to overall aging, and the trend is likely to continue.

Wellcome Trust annual analysis of the Charity Open Access Fund spend.

A Review of Approaches and Experiences.

But the pressure to publish might not be such a problem after all.

Gender-bias in peer reviewing might persist even when gender-equity is reached because both male and female editors operate with a same-gender preference whose characteristics differ by editor-gender.

A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.

Monitoring top EU based R&D investing companies benchmarking them with top investors located in other parts of the world.

The trend is indicative of a growing usage of general scientific jargon.

A study analysing digital transformation in the publishing industry found that 25 per cent of publishers see themselves as 'lagging' behind the rest of the industry.

Common underpinning problems with the scientific and data analytic practices and point to tools and behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the problems with published scientific results.

Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science.

Similarities and differences in Open Data and Open Science policies between European nations.

Building a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers.

A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.

New report looks at real-time global research collaboration for the first time, uncovering a new picture of collaborative research.

Democratization of journal publishing: the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.

An analysis of data from 3500 review experiences submitted by authors to the SciRev.sc website.

The efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.

Academics often complain about how long it takes for a paper to undergo peer reveiw. A publication reveals several striking observations based on these experiences.

A new study has found that funding agencies are not as open as they could be about what they are doing to prevent this waste and that governments responsible for the public money they distribute are not holding them to account.

Gender Report — Analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies, and 27 subject areas.

Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.

The number of backers a product attracts during crowdfunding predicts its financial success in the marketplace – not the amount of money raised.

A practical guide issued by Science Europe.