Besieged Iranian researchers say that currency collapse, scientific isolation and psychological strain are hindering almost every aspect of their work.

A new study shows how affirmative action for white people works at America's most prestigious university.

Scientists need to work more closely with entrepreneurs and financiers to ensure groundbreaking research in Europe can be turned into successful business opportunities, according to the recently appointed chair of the European Innovation Council's pilot advisory board.

Wegen teurer Fachmagazine boykottierten Hochschulen lange Großverlage. Nun gibt es Einigungen zwischen beiden Seiten - aber glücklich sind nicht alle.

Thomas Crowther wants to restore the planet, but first he needs to know how many trees, fungi, worms and microbes live on it.

This is a myth. People think that DOAJ exists to index all open access journals. A journal can only be indexed if it passes all of our criteria. The Directory of Everything Open Access The Director…

This blog post highlights the historical precedent of Mary Quayle Innis and the unrecognised impact she had on her husband Harold Adams Innis’ career and suggests that the social sciences and humanities would benefit from a wider interpretation of scholarly attribution than is currently practiced.

Transforming our societies to stop climate change offers us the chance to make our lives better.

The pursuit of money from wealthy donors distorts the research process-and yields flashy projects that don't help and don't work.

Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science - and why they won't stay quiet.

The factors are complicated, but they tie broadly back to America's history of systemic racism. 

Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.

Citation of Italian-authored papers by Italian researchers rose after the introduction of metrics-based thresholds for promotions.

There have been big declines in the proportion of humanities and social science papers published in Norwegian, conference told

The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Global Sprint was held online over the course of two-days (29-30 November 2018), where participants from around the world were invited to develop brief guides (stand alone, self paced training materials), called "Things", that can be used by the research community to understand FAIR in different contexts as well as some initial steps to consider.

It's no secret that retractions have a stigma, which is very likely part of why authors often resist the move - even when honest error is involved.

SAGE Publishing is today retracting 22 articles by a materials science researcher who published in two of their journals - but the anonymous reader who brought the problems to their attention…

Respondents to a Nature poll want to make their own decisions about how to interpret citation metrics. That requires data to be freely accessible.

The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, nominated Bulgaria's Mariya Gabriel to take charge of research, innovation and education, but has scotched research from the name of the brief for the first time, relabelling it the 'Innovation and Youth' portfolio.

Reviewing and accepting study plans before results are known can counter perverse incentives. Chris Chambers sets out three ways to improve the approach.

The publisher is scrutinizing researchers who might be inappropriately using the review process to promote their own work.

Sen. Maria Cantwell calls for committee hearings on whether Trump administration is trying to "undermine science."

Graphics are becoming increasingly important for scientists to effectively communicate their findings to broad audiences, but most researchers lack expertise in visual media.

In recent years traditional journalism has experienced a collapse, and science journalism has been a major casualty. One potential remedy is to encourage scientists to write for news media about science.

The outcomes of a 4-year pilot phase which gathered information from over 500 institutions are discussed, outlining future directions for efforts to promote gender equity in STEM.

The number of women climbing the career ladder in science remains "disappointingly low", says a new study.

 International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and Digital Science have joined forces to make Dimensions and Altmetric data available to ISSI members at scale, and at no cost for scientometric research purposes. 

Data-visualization techniques can clarify the uncertainty in information or make it more confusing if not implemented well.

The Native Hawaiian protesters blocking the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea appear to have settled in for the long haul.

Researchers at Eawag have been awarded the 3R Swiss Competence Centre award for their outstanding research work representing a milestone in the promotion of alternatives to animal experiments.