Alison Mudditt looks at the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science, and the bigger picture of shifting the nature of research assessment.

Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.

In this short piece Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome and interim cOAlition S Coordinator provides an update on five key activities cOAlition S is currently supporting.

What are racial microaggressions and how do they appear within science communities?

Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.

Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.

Scientists call on the EU to inshrine a legal right for researchers to share their research findings without restrictions.

In a victory for science and public health, a federal court determined that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot exclude scientists who have received EPA research grants - who happen to be mainly academic scientists from research universities - from serving on its advisory panels.

A physicist from Imperial College London is on a mission to bust what she calls the "big misconception" about scientists. Dr Jess Wade started to create and edit Wikipedia pages at the beginning of 2018 to "better represent women and people of colour" on the online encyclopedia. She's now amassed a portfolio of more than 900 new pages but says the project is about more than the numbers. Speaking to ITV News on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Wade said: "Something magical can happen if you stumble across a profile that looks a bit like you. "You realise you could be like that too".

A joint statement calling on EU institutions to ensure the right of researchers to share their research findings without embargoes or restrictions has today been issued by the Young Academy of Europe and other organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe and beyond.

Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.

The conference will debate the role of the editor in supporting and promoting sustainable science, and ensuring diversity through stimulating plenary speakers, panel discussions and interactive sessions.

Long-running controversy had drawn extensive attention.

The president's new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.

New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation.

Artificial intelligence tools are used on a historical piece of footage to great effect.

Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.

Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.

The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.

The measurements used to make the original argument made very little sense.

Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs