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Mathematical model estimating the overall quantitative annual demand for peer review and the supply in biomedical research.
The 150 best universities for delivering work-ready graduates
A new study shows computers outshine real-life academics when performing some scholarly research tasks
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
Science is going through a revolution. The world of tech, startups, makers, innovators and collaborators are beginning to be welcomed in to the scientific ecosystem in a way never seen before. Science: Disrupt brings together the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science. Join us at Digital Science for our 4th Science Disrupt London Session to Disrupt the Lab!
Nine experts reflect on where researchers should direct their efforts during the next US administration.
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
An academic search engine that utilizes artificial intelligence methods to provide highly relevant results and novel tools to filter them with ease.
While deceptive publishing remains an ongoing issue, particularly in the developing world, increasing public engagement, development of OA policies, and discussion of sustainable and ethical publishing practices can remove this potential threat.
The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers.
Researchers acting to maximise their fitness should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have only 10%–40% statistical power. As a result, half of the studies they publish will report erroneous conclusions. Current incentive structures are in conflict with maximising the scientific value of research; we suggest ways that the scientific ecosystem could be improved.
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles
A new search engine called Semantic Scholar helps academics deal with the increasingly enormous volume of academic research.
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.
If you are considering developing a new database, please, for the love of science, follow these 10 simple rules for creating and maintaining (biological) databases.
The story of La Paillasse: an open lab which aims to cut out the intermediaries and create a much more open way of doing research, enabling to fast-prototype solutions to scientific problems.
Biomedical funders worldwide are adopting the US agency’s free Relative Citation Ratio to analyse grant outcomes.
Neuroscientist Ana Mingorance’s experience highlights some pointers for successfully making the move to industry.
Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
Top science and tech talent could choose to set up in other countries that are more hospitable to their work.
A free, open source, preprints repository, api, and aggregator for arXiv, PeerJ, Research Papers in Economics, PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, and others.
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.
Researchers may publish their best work at any point in their careers, a new study reports. This is not the same as success being the result of random forces or just plain “dumb luck.”
