Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.

The preservation of software has become as essential as preserving research articles and data sets.

As researchers, we are unlikely to spend much time reflecting on one of the often-forgotten pillars of science: scientific publishing. Naturally, our focus leans more towards traditional academic activities including teaching, mentoring graduate students and post docs, and the next exciting experiment that will allow us to advance our understanding.

We talk to Dr Richard Bowman about designing 3D-printable microscopes.

Because knowing where to look is half the battle.

STEMM Equality Congress (SEC) is an annual two day event that looks at ways of addressing equality and diversity in STEMM through policy, practice and collaboration. 2018's Congress will be held in Amsterdam.

Here's a list of more cultural things we can do to reduce the stress/pressure around the reproducibility crisis.

An article has come to light that has been cited in nearly 400 academic studies and scientific papers. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t exist.

Industry chemist Nathan Allen spends his spare time creating a place for open, civil debate about science online.

Number of patent applications per million residents versus the number of scientific or technical article publications per million residents.

Promoting data sharing by improving data information literacy in German academic libraries.

PhD Comics takes on the Tax Attack on graduate education.

Linking associated research outputs.

The Highly Cited Researchers list represents some of the world’s most influential minds, as determined by an analysis of citations in Web of Science.

Why you should use them, and how to do it well.

Does press coverage ever lead to papers’ rejection?

Short summary of white paper that shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times.

This post is about a prototype ‘network’ approach to finding papers using data from Google Scholar.