The drug albuterol can provide fast-acting relief to the wheezing and shortness of breath that often accompany an asthma attack but it often fails minority children.

Researcher-centric communication, collaboration and attribution platform powered by blockchain - with proof-of-existence and real-time, permanent, citing for all scientific and scholarly works.

After Jeffrey Beall took down his list of predatory journals in January 2017 in order to avoid continued harassment and threats, a small group of scholars and information professionals decided to anonymously rebuild and resurrect that list.

A series of talks on robust research practices in psychology and the biomedical sciences, held in Oxford in 2017. Organized by Dorothy Bishop, Ana Todorovic, Caroline Nettekoven and Verena Heise.

A free and open way to track the online buzz around scholarly articles, by Jason Priem.

To attract more girls to study Stem subjects at university, we need to tackle the stereotypes they are exposed to early on.

China produces the most scientific articles, but lags on other measures. 

Information about research metrics across disciplines, including how each metric is calculated, where you can find it, and how each should (and should not) be applied.

Editors and peer reviewers impose tougher standards on women. This is evident from the fact that female-authored economics papers take around six months more to go through the review process than male-authored papers. As a result, female academics come to experience peer review as a much tougher process and those who progress on the career ladder adjust their expectations about what is required. Female researchers publish less than their male peers do but what they publish is much more readable and better written.

27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.

Canada's Budget 2018 has been released by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. In this post, Brooke Struck examines the budget's implications for Canada's three research granting councils.

The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.

Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.