Congress gives big funding increase to NIH
The spending bill for the federal government ends more than 12 years of stagnant budgets for NIH.
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Study show that elite scientists really do hold back science
Scientists can be stubborn. They can use their gravitas to steamroll new ideas. Which means those new ideas often only prevail when older scientists die.
Altmetric's top 100 research articles in 2015
What academic research caught the public imagination in 2015? Altmetric has pulled together our annual list of the research that has attracted the most online attention in the past year.
What's in a journal name?
Scientists debate the merits of deleting journal names from their publication lists.
Transparent peer review at Nature Communications
Starting Jan 2016 Nature Communications will publish peer reviews alongside with the paper.
University prestige has little influence on leaders' pay
An analysis of the correlation between vice-chancellors’ pay and university ranking.
Make science more reliable, win cash prizes
Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.
A basic scientist's reflections on research funding
Research can only exist with good and secure funding, but when obtaining funding becomes a dominant part of investigators’ activity, the system has a problem.
Fleming's discovery of penicillin couldn't get published today. That's a huge problem.
Fleming's discovery of penicillin couldn't get published today. That's a huge problem.
Some researchers think science should be small again.
The case for abolishing traditional peer review
We have little or no evidence that peer review 'works,' but we have lots of evidence of its downside.
Five selfish reasons to work reproducibly
Ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for you.
Authorship abuse is the dark side of collaboration
Too many senior scholars abuse their power when it comes to assigning credit.
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Biology top journals share original data at the highest rate, and physics top journals share at the lowest rate.
Burning out faculty at doctoral research universities
Grantsmanship and service activities appeared as the most critical factors associated with faculty burnout.
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
Study examining whether NIH funded articles that were archived in PMC after the release of the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy show greater scholarly impact than comparable articles not archived in PMC.
Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea
Michael Eisen recently announced his new website, which features a new publication list that doesn’t mention journal names anywhere.
EU Commission sets out plan to allow free data mining
Commission proposes a research-friendly copyright for open science and innovation in Europe.
Dutch Universities and Elsevier reach agreement
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and Elsevier have reached an agreement in principle that marks a milestone in the Netherlands' transition to Open Access.
From January you'll need an ORCID
Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.
Secret dossier on research fraud suggests government concern over science
‘Too many institutions’ are ready to ‘sweep fraud under the carpet’.
32 private university presidents earned more than $1 million in 2013
Executive compensation at private and public colleges.
Five Selfish Reasons to Work Reproducibly
Five Selfish Reasons to Work Reproducibly
And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for you! Here, I present five reasons why working reproducibly pays off in the long run and is in the self-interest of every ambitious, career-oriented scientist.
How to build a better PhD
There are too many PhD students for too few academic jobs - but with imagination, the problem could be solved.
The postdoc's dilemma: when to give up on romance and file for divorce?
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?
How science can be put to common good use?
Drivers of research may need to be tweaked to ensure better contribution to society.
Tradition and innovation in scientists' research strategies
An analysis of the essential tension identifies institutional forces that sustain tradition and suggestions of policy interventions to foster innovation.
The distribution of probability values in medical abstracts
The distribution of p-values in reported medical abstracts provides evidence for systematic error in the reporting of p-values..
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