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The open access movement has prompted a shift towards retention of rights and the use of creative commons licenses to control how works are used by publishers. However, in many cases, researchers continue to agree to standard assignment terms offered by publishers without fully investigating or understanding them.
Comparing the experiences of individually and collectively supervised students on the same doctoral programme, it was found that collective supervision, during the first year at least, is correlated with significantly shorter times to thesis completion compared to individual supervision.
Obviously peer review should not be abandoned entirely, but it is time to recognise the need for a separate category of highly innovative research with appropriate funding.
Open peer review is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher attitudes show important barriers to implementation. Tony Ross-Hellauer provides an overv…
Some evidence showing that the more revisions a paper undergoes, the greater its subsequent recognition in terms of citation impact.
To what extent should academic hiring and promotional bodies apply a discount for articles with many authors?
12 steps, relevant to both first-time peer reviewers and those keen to brush up on their skills.
Gender and the ethics of care in the neoliberal accelerated academy.
A study has revealed a high prevalence of inconsistencies in reported statistical test results. Such inconsistencies make results unreliable, as they become “irreproducible”, and ultimately affect the level of trust in scientific reporting.
What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…
While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.
Funders of UK research have sought to foster a research culture in which public engagement is embedded at all levels.
The unsustainable nature of the digital data landscape, the quality and credibility of the data themselves, and how data sources currently represent only privileged individuals, are challenges that can be overcome, but to do so requires significant investment in key data governance priorities.
There is a serious lack in sharing material/resources that are used to creating the building-blocks of a research experiment.
Amidst the push from universities and funding agencies for increased interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity has also been the subject of a number of critiques in recent years.
The importance of addressing researchers’ recognition and reward structures, arguing it is time to move to a system that uses metrics and indicators that incentivise the types of behaviours that are good for research and researchers.
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
An introspective look at peer review, one we hope will be useful for future discussions on the topic.
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
The 2014 REF results show only a very weak relationship between excellence in research and achieving societal impact.
Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.
A time-limited exercise in which academics from many disciplines and from all over the world were brought together virtually to produce an academic article.
ResearchGate and similar services represent a “gamification” of research, drawing on features usually associated with online games, like rewards, rankings and levels.
Although automated publishing would allow researchers to share their findings faster, while also removing human bias, there are obvious ethical dilemmas related to this dehumanisation of the process.
A call to simplify an overly complicated process
Making the case for a European Open Access Platform.
Research on academics’ writing practices has revealed tensions around the ways in which managerial practices interact with academics’ individual career goals, disciplinary values and sense of scholarly identity.
