The scale of the problem from an academic perspective.

This paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations.

A survey analysis of grant writing costs and benefits

Figshare and the crucial service of generalist repositories.

This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.

For a second year running, rOpenSci is excited to announce another R unconference in March 2015 at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco.

The 4th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Brazil in June 2015 sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, AAAS, NPG, EMBO and others.

Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.

openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.

The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.

Last week the Citizen Science Association held its first conference ever, with 600 people attending from 25 countries.

Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.

The new version of the website "hochschulwatch.de" shows that there are about 1,000 private chairs alone in Germany. In addition, over 10,000 collaboration between industry and universities were collected.

Reproducibility alone is insufficient to address the replication crisis because even a reproducible analysis can suffer from many problems that threaten the validity and useful interpretation of the results.

Both the public and scientists value the contributions ofscience, but there are large differences in how each perceives science issues.

Race inequality remains prevalent throughout all areas of higher education, including staffing, admissions and employment, according to a report released by leading UK race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust.

This study investigates the relationship between research group size and productivity in the life sciences in the UK and shows that the number of publications increases linearly with group size, but that the slope is modest relative to the intercept, and that the relationship explains little of the variance in productivity.

How openness won and why it doesn't feel like victory, by Martin Weller.

Low citation rates in the humanities are not at all the result of a lower average number of references per paper but are caused by the low fraction of linked references which refer to papers published in the core journals covered by WoS.

Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.

Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.

Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.

How the US position as a global leader in biomedical research is being undermined.

We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.

We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results: specifically, we introduce a peer-review oath and accompanying manifesto.

Comparison of the recall of commonly used online indexers.

On the challenges of crowdfunded science projects.

Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.

On transparency in the process of grant review.

On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.