'Overflow' of new research 'erodes trust between scientists'
According to a new paper, the "deluge" of new scientific papers that academics have to read makes it all but impossible to know what research to trust.
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The journal that couldn't stop citing itself
In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
US National Academies issue call to cut red tape
Report warns that growing government regulations detracts from research.
67% of Europeans don't believe women have the skills to be scientists
A new survey from L’Oreal looks at the public’s perception of female scientists with shocking results. (Particularly if you live in China.)
PLOS publication costs increase
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
We need to ensure the reward and support structures in academia promote the best practices rather than corner cutting.
Excellence or non-sense
Excellence or non-sense
What does 'excellence' really mean?
Ignoring science isn't a Republican problem. It's an American problem.
"I'm not a scientist." How many times have you heard that lately from politicians who are trying to duck questions about important scientific topics like climate change and vaccines?
Make academic job advertisements fair to all
Too many university posts are given to men without proper competition.
Overflow in science and its implications for trust
‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.
Scientific disintegrity as a public bad
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
Gender studies and interdisciplinarity
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
DOI Event Tracker
Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.
Using behavioral science insights to better serve the American people
Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.
Openness Initiative
An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.
Social sciences and humanities faculties to close after ministerial decree
7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.
Moedas to pick up from 150 scientists
More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.
British universities slip downing global rankings
Change in methodology beneficial to ETHZ and EPFL.
"WikiGate" raises questions about Wikipedia's commitment to open access
Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.
Europe's technological irrelevance
Please, European universities, stop playing in the second league when it comes to fundraising. Go out and ask your alumni for resources to help you build the next Stanford.
It’s a matter of sticks and carrots
Bernard Rentier explains how the University of Liege persuaded nearly all its researchers to put their papers in its institutional repository.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Why Is Science So Straight?
STEM culture must rein in the pressure to separate professional and personal identities.
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Living science: Triaging Shakespeare
What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review? Indira M Raman considers the possibility.
The ReScience Journal
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.
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