Send us a link
Authors tend to attribute manuscript acceptance to their own ability to write quality papers and simultaneously to blame rejections on negative bias in peer review, displaying a self-serving attributional bias.
This paper highlights key guidelines to help authors increase their data’s reuse potential and compliance with journal data policies.
This paper presents Wikiometrics: the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia.
Scientists who submit grant applications to the NIH will be required to explain the scientific premise behind their proposals and defend the quality of their experimental designs.
The design of clinical studies whose results are published in high-impact medical journals is not associated with the likelihood or amount of ensuing news coverage.
ERC funds 135 Proof of Concept grants, a press release.
A new initiative published this week outlines how scientists can make a change to open science practices at an individual level.
Science spending in Singapore is set to surge by 18%.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the top 200 most outward-looking institutions.
$1000 to each of the first 1000 scientists preregistering their protocols with Nosek's Center for Open Science.
This is a proposal for a system for evaluation of the quality of scientific papers by open review of the papers through a platform inspired by StackExchange.
Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.
The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science (at least when looking at the available evidence from experimental fields).
Highly Cited Researchers in 2015 according to Thomson Reuters.
A shortlist of recommendations to promote gender equality in science and stimulate future efforts to level the field.
A statistical analysis of research funding and other influencing factors.
Report to the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SSIC.
A few years back, I asked two colleagues for letters of support for my grant proposal. One colleague drafted a letter personally. The other, citing heavy time pressures, asked me to draft the letter myself.
The DNA sequencing giant will launch a new company, Grail, to develop blood tests to detect cancer.
Fellow of the Royal Society and future President of the Royal Statistical Society, Sir David Spiegelhalter visits Dr Nicole Janz to discuss reproducibility in scientific publications.
A new study by a congressional watchdog agency finds that female scientists are less likely than men to receive research grants from the U.S. government.
New evidence suggests that the underrepresentation of women reflects a systemic bias in that marketplace: a failure to give women full credit for collaborative work done with men.
Several widely used biology databases supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute are facing unsettling change.
Zu faul, keine Zeit, nicht fähig: Wie rasch Studierende im Web Ghostwriter für den Uni-Abschluss finden. Wie teuer das ist. Und warum die Institute dagegen machtlos sind.
Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.
When it comes to protecting the scientific literature from bias, the safeguards that academics now use are sorely inadequate.
We asked four researchers who made the news in 2015 what they would change about how science gets done.
There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.
The vast majority of scientific papers today are published in English. What gets lost when other languages get left out?
