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In the battle against fake news, a Greek computer scientist living in a northern English town is on the front lines. Armed with a decade of machine learning expertise, he is part of a British start-up that will soon release an automated fact-checking tool ahead of the country’s election in early June.
An open introductory course into the practices of Open Science explains how to make the most of the existing outputs of open research.
With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.
Open-access mandates have the potential to significantly harm the publishing industry, writes the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday evening its website would be “undergoing changes” to better represent the new direction the agency is taking, triggering the removal of several agency websites containing detailed climate data and scientific information.
The online encyclopaedia is inaccessible under an official order, but no reason for this is given.
Funding shortfalls at the luxe science magazine have left some contributors waiting months to be paid. They may need to wait a little longer.
An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God."
For years, there was no overview of what the total amount being paid for journal subscriptions was per institute or on a national level.
Study suggesting that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors’ practices.
You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.
Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.
Technology is one of the country’s biggest growth industries, but it comes at a price.
Scientific community calls on voters not to support the candidate of the National Front
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
Explore the universities with the highest percentage of international students.
Contributing to science is no easy endeavor.
New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment.
Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.
The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.
Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.
Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.
The Broad Institute draws NIH funding to subsidize dozens of basic research projects, many of them conducted with commercial partners. But it is the Broad’s handling of its own CRISPR business and partnerships that threaten to undermine its nonprofit mission.
Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.
