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Why Scientific Societies Should Involve More Early-Career Researchers
Why Scientific Societies Should Involve More Early-Career Researchers
Appointing early-career researchers to positions of influence within scientific societies would be mutually beneficial for both.
Changing How We Evaluate Research is Difficult, but Not Impossible
DORA has evolved into an active initiative that gives practical advice to institutions on new ways to assess and evaluate research. This article outlines a framework for driving institutional change.
COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
COVID-19 and the Research Community: Struggling to Get Started
As the world attempts to cope with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers about to start PhDs and postdocs face particular challenges.
Peer Review: Publishing in the Time of COVID-19
eLife is making changes to its policies on peer review in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community.
Innovation Leaders 2020: Introducing the Cohort
We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.
Meta-Research: A Collection of Articles
The study of science itself is a growing field of research. Also known as meta-science or the science of science, it involves studying the processes and decisions that shape the evolution of scientific research. This collection of articles highlights the breadth of meta-research with articles on topics as diverse as gender bias in peer review, statistical power in clinical trials and the readability of the scientific literature.
Introducing Innovation Leaders 2020
We invite you to join our mentorship programme designed for innovators in open science and research communication.
ELife Introduces First Demonstration of the Open-source Publishing Platform Libero Publisher
ELife Introduces First Demonstration of the Open-source Publishing Platform Libero Publisher
The working example represents a major milestone in the development of Libero Publisher, a community-supported tool to help modernise academic publishing.
Scientist and Parent: The Bereaved Parent
The impacts of grief are long-lasting, but support from colleagues provides some relief.
Innovator Story: Wrestling the Octopus
Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.
Scientist and Parent: Planning During Pregnancy
Colleagues, funders and institutions can support pregnant researchers in a variety of ways.
Meta-Research: Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
Meta-Research: Tracking the Popularity and Outcomes of All BioRxiv Preprints
The growth of preprints in the life sciences has been reported widely and is driving policy changes for journals and funders, but little quantitative information has been published about preprint usage. Here, we report how we collected and analyzed data on all 37,648 preprints uploaded to bioRxiv.org, the largest biology-focused preprint server, in its first five years.
Research Assessment: Reducing Bias in the Evaluation of Researchers
A workshop run by DORA identified a number of ways to reduce bias in hiring and funding decisions.
ELife Ambassadors: An Invitation to Take Part in 2019
The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group open applications for researchers who wish to join the second edition of the community advocacy programme.
ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer
ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer
New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.
Meta-Research: How Significant Are the Public Dimensions of Faculty Work in Review, Promotion and Tenure Documents?
Meta-Research: How Significant Are the Public Dimensions of Faculty Work in Review, Promotion and Tenure Documents?
An analysis of review, promotion and tenure documents from 129 US and Canadian universities suggests institutions could better fulfill their public missions by changing how they incentivize the public dimensions of faculty work.
Introducing eLife's First Computationally Reproducible Article
Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.
Why We Need to Report More Than 'Data Were Analyzed by t-tests or ANOVA'
Why We Need to Report More Than 'Data Were Analyzed by t-tests or ANOVA'
Many papers in basic biomedical science do not contain the information that is needed to determine what statistical tests were used and to verify the results of these tests.
ELife Invests in Texture to Provide Open-source Content Production Tools for Publishers
ELife Invests in Texture to Provide Open-source Content Production Tools for Publishers
Collaborating on the development of Texture brings eLife a step closer to its open-source, end-to-end publisher workflow.
Meta-Research: Gender Inequalities Among Authors Who Contributed Equally
An analysis of papers in which two or more authors shared first-author position found that male authors were more likely than female authors to appear first in the author list.
US Postdoc Survey Results and the Interaction of Gender, Career Choice and Mentor Impact
US Postdoc Survey Results and the Interaction of Gender, Career Choice and Mentor Impact
The postdoctoral community is an essential component of the academic and scientific workforce, but a lack of data about this community has made it difficult to develop policies to address concerns about salaries, working conditions, diversity and career development, and to evaluate the impact of existing policies. A recent study aims to address this gap.
ELife Supports SwipesForScience to Gamify Crowdsourced Research and Machine Learning
ELife Supports SwipesForScience to Gamify Crowdsourced Research and Machine Learning
By helping scientists gamify the crowdsourcing of data analysis, SwipesForScience will engage the community to speed up research.
WikiCiteVis - Exploring Citations on Wikipedia
Find out how scholarly articles are cited on Wikipedia with WikiCiteVis.
Point of View: Are Theoretical Results 'Results'?
There should be a prominent place for theory within biology papers, both as Results in papers that combine experiment and theory, and as Results in theory papers.
Journal Clubs in the Time of Preprints
Early-career researchers can learn about peer review by discussing preprints at journal clubs and sending feedback to the authors.
Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly all Scholarly Literature
For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.
Reproducibility: Automated
Repurposing continuous integration tools for scientific analyses takes the headache out of reproducible research.
Peer Review: Rooting out Bias
Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.
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