The world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world.

An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.

Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.

The current state of research software, a number of the challenges around it that exist in academia, and some potential solutions.

This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.

A paper evaluating the possibility of using Google Scholar (GS) institutional level data to evaluate university research in a relatively automatic way.

A bibliometric analysis of citers.

The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own indicator, RG Score, for its members. The high profile nature of the site means that the RG Score may be used for recruitment, promotion

Contrary to the basic premise of many funding policies, we find that the number of citations of an investigator determine funding levels, but not the other way around.

An analysis of potential predatory journals as well as potential poor scientific standards journals.

An analysis using the CWTS Leiden Ranking data.

No generalizable gold OA citation advantage at journal level.

Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.