Novel breakthroughs in research can have a dramatic impact on scientific discovery but face some distinct disadvantages in getting wider recognition.

Approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.

All software used for the analysis should be either carefully documented or, better yet, openly shared and directly accessible to others.

This Community Page presents an open-access platform, protocols.io ( https://www.protocols.io/ ), which enables collaborative sharing and discovery of state-of-the-art research methods.

Badges that acknowledge open practices significantly increase sharing of reported data and materials, as well as subsequent accessibility, correctness, usability, and completeness.

Jean-Paul Chretien and colleagues argue that recent Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks highlight the importance of data sharing in scientific research.

UC Davis and CDL Investigation of the Institutional Costs of Gold Open Access

A system of academic endorsement based on blockchain technology would be decoupled from the publication process, which would allow expeditious appraisal of all kinds of scientific output in a transparent manner without relying on any central authority.

Authors of systematic review articles sometimes overlook misconduct and conflicts of interest present in the research they are analyzing, according to a recent study published in BMJ Open.

A figshare case study of Micah Vandegrift's Digital Humanities research.

Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.

It is clear that the journal impact factor is not effective in predicting future citations of successful authors.

Utilizing 250,000 papers from ArXiv.org we construct large coauthorship networks to investigate how individual network positions influence scientific success. Surprisingly, inter(sub)disciplinary collaborations decrease the probability of getting a paper published in specialized journals for almost all positions.

A survey of Global Higher Education.

How much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees.

Harvard Library publishes report on converting subscription journals to open access.

The production, archival, and sharing of data may actually be a more effective way to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Study showing open access papers have a 50% greater citation advantage than articles behind paywalls.

EuroScience Open Forum 2016 Special Issue of Research Europe

Evaluation by the European Research Council (ERC) which serves as a pilot exercise for the future evaluation of ERC‐funded projects.

A variety of bibliometric measures has been developed to supplant the Impact Factor to better assess the impact of individual research papers

How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?

A figshare case study on Erin McKiernan's Physiological Science research.

A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.

Aging of the NIH-funded independent investigator workforce is an accumulation of multiple factors including a shift in perceptions, expectations, and the general structure of the extramural workforce, as well as global macroeconomic factors.

Crowdsourcing the analysis of complex and massive data has emerged as a framework to find robust methodologies. When the crowdsourcing is done in the form of collaborative scientific competitions, known as Challenges, the validation of the methods is inherently addressed.

Competition leads to more innovation but also to more unfair reviews and to a lower level of agreement between reviewers. Moreover, competition does not improve the average quality of published works.

In this Special Communication, President Barack Obama reviews the Affordable Care Act: why he pursued it, what it has effected, and how the health care system can still be improved.

Cherished advice from academic mentors around the world.

Recommendations from the Future of Research Chicago Symposium.