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A team of researchers inside Pfizer made a startling find in 2015: The company’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis therapy Enbrel, a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, appeared to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 64 percent.
Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
Analysis of 30 leading institutions found that just 17% of study results had been posted online as required by EU rules.
Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification, citation and reporting of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice.
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are not only important to uniquely identify a publication, dataset, or person, but the metadata for these persistent identifiers can provide unambiguous linking between persistent identifiers of the same type, e.g. journal articles citing other journal articles, or of different types, e.g. linking a researcher and the datasets they produced.
SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.
How can research produce more value in the absence of coordination? An opinion piece by Daniel Ropers, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature.
Drug companies make big contributions to analysis in the trials they fund but can fail to report their contributions.
Knowledge generated in partnership with the public and policymakers is more likely to be useful to society and should be encouraged.
A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.
Scientists often herald the role of chance in research. A project in Britain aims to test the popular idea with evidence.
If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way. We must see the forest, thinks Scott Page collegiate professor of complex systems, and author of the book book "The Diversity Bonus".
Algorithms are shaping our lives. Where's academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Nowhere near enough new drugs are currently in development says a WHO report, which calls for urgent investment and responsible use of existing antibiotics.
Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence.
Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation.
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.
