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.

Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.

A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf

“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”

Which academic research caught the public imagination in 2014?

People working together can achieve more than they can alone; this is a fundamental principle upon which organizations are founded.

Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual "Wikipedia for data" to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia.

A selection of position papers submitted by stakeholders, to be presented at the workshops.

The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.

Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.

Europe's heavy administrative and bureaucratic burden makes collaborations difficult.