A critical view of altmetrics
Altmetrics is one of the hotly debated topics in the Open Science movement today.
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The five deadly sins of science publishing
This editorial describes the problems with the process of preparing and publishing research findings, and with judging their veracity and significance, and then explains how we at Faculty of 1000 are starting to tackle the ‘deadly sins’ of science publishing.
SiSOB data extraction and codification
Studying researchers’ CVs shows that moving jobs does not always boost a researcher’s productivity.
Lessons from the Séralini GM case
Lessons from the Séralini GM case
The publication, retraction and subsequent republication of the Séralini study raise important scientific and ethical issues for journal editors. Decisions to retract an article should be made on the basis of well-established policies. Articles should be retracted only for serious errors that undermine the reliability of the data or results, or for serious ethical lapses, such as research misconduct or mistreatment of animal or human subjects.
New mechanism for scientific advice
President Juncker welcomes world-leading scientists, discusses role of science in competitiveness and announces new mechanism for scientific advice.
Thumbs Down for the Freemium Model?
Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment.
Royal Society Open Science to tackle publication bias
[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.
Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers
[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.
First results from psychology's largest reproducibility test
An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.
The trouble with reference rot
Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature.
Researchers to take on publishers over new EU copyright laws
Intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn is expected.
A time limit on postdoctoral contracts: the French experience
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
How to combat distrust of science
The surprising power of the psychology of consensus.
How we can break free from sexism in science
In academia, strong hierarchies and nepotism compound problems associated with biases.
Final report on Science 2.0 public consultation
[24]This report presents the key findings, the main areas of discussion and the policy recommendations emerging from the consultation.
A framework to explore the knowledge structure of multidisciplinary research fields
A framework to explore the knowledge structure of multidisciplinary research fields
Understanding emerging areas of a multidisciplinary research field is crucial for researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders. For them a knowledge structure based on longitudinal bibliographic data can be an effective instrument.
Ten simple (empirical) rules for writing science
Scientists receive much advice on how to write an effective paper that their colleagues will read, cite, and celebrate. Here we put this advice to the test, and measure the impact of certain features of academic writing on success, as proxied by citations.
Are replicability and reproducibility under-rated in science?
Special Issue on reproducibility in EuroScientist.
Are publisher profits justifiable?
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
The retirement debate
You're in your 60s. Should you stay in the lab, or make way for the next generation?
Final report on Science 2.0 public consultation
Science 2.0 is a new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. This consultation gathers the opinions of a broad sample of interested parties from across the EU research landscape.
Area-wide transition to open access is possible
The Max Planck Digital Library has put forward a study on the transformation of the subscription-driven system for scientific publications to an Open Access model. For the first time, quantitative parameters are presented showing that the liberation of scholarly literature is possible at no extra costs..
How one case brought a biology institute to its knees
The fall out from the STAP case is still being felt across Japan.
Sexist peer review elicits furious Twitter response
A peer reviewer's suggestion that two female researchers find "one or two male biologists" to co-author and help them strengthen a manuscript they had written and submitted to a journal has unleashed an avalanche of disbelief and disgust on Twitter today.
Is Crowdfunded Science Legit Science?
A crowdfunding campaign for a brain imaging study closed Monday after raising almost $80,000 toward a unique goal: the first functional magnetic resonance images of the brain on LSD.
P values are just the tip of the iceberg
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
Want to get your research noticed by politicians?
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
Disrupting the subscription journals' business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access business model.
Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Europe
This collection brings together agenda-setting essays by policymakers, practitioners, scientists and scholars from across Europe.
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