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We can all recognise the ambitious researcher at the conference who is anxious to advertise their own work. It resonates with my current work on academic self-promotion via university profile pages. And I start to wonder, is a new academic habitus beginning to emerge?
We don't know what knowledge we'll need in the future, and that's where maths research comes in.
The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…
As we celebrate Peer Review Week, this post summarizes some of the reviewer preferences along with ways to boost recognition for peer review activities.
An interview with Tom Culley, Marketing Director of Publons, on how provide recognition for this vital part of the scientific process.
Science is a public good and deserves to be valued more highly and used effectively by decision-makers at all levels.
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
It’s the most wondrous time of the year! Peer Review Week is the time when the scholarly communications community comes together to recognise the importance and value of peer review and peer review…
Researchers will have to publicly report the results of many more clinical trials under new government rules announced Friday.
The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.
This paper presents a brief overview of emerging policies to open up access to research data in the United States.
Post-coup crackdown has led to a huge number of requests for help, say charities for at-risk scholars.
Don't believe every science study you read, because sometimes not even their authors believe them. Here are the issues corrupting good, honest science – and how to fix them.
Windows, desks and employees are being wired up in a quest to create healthy, evidence-based environments.
Recap of contest launched by the Winnower and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to answer the question – How do we ensure that research is reproducible?
The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.
With the right investment, an open source drug discovery system might compete with the traditional pharmaceutical industry to deliver the drugs we need.
The solution to science's replication crisis is a new ecosystem in which scientists sell what they learn from their research.
Today, a scientist's most desired citation may be from a publication not often thought of as prestigious: Wikipedia.
Two and a half years ago now, a narrow majority of the Swiss electorate approved the so-called popular 'Stop Mass Immigration' initiative or MEI proposed by the Swiss People’s Party or SVP...
Postdoc positions in industry can teach people skills that they would not learn in academia.
Investigators are now required to disclose all clinical trials, whether successful or not.
NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.
Dr. Joerg Heber has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE.
A modest developmental biology paper prompts breathless claims of egg-free embryos
Although peer review is now a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it was envisioned...
Looking forward to Peer Review Week, we asked the Chefs “What is the future of peer review?”
