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Investigating fraud is hard work, and it is easier for journal editors to ignore the problem and perpetuate the myth that peer review of trial reports ensures their scientific quality.
Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
What lessons does the Swiss ambivalence towards European Union hold for the UK?
If faculties across the US don’t take a very public and aggressive stand in defense of their colleagues in Wisconsin, there will be little to stop the process of complete corporatization of higher education.
The DORA Declaration points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?
The case of Switzerland is a clear example of how a "no" vote could damage UK science.
ERC President statement on reported comments by ERC Scientific Council member
Researchers face pressure to hype and report selectively, says Dorothy Bishop.
A process at the heart of science is based on faith rather than evidence, says Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group from 1991 to 2004.
Cheating in scientific and academic papers is a longstanding problem, but it is hard to read recent headlines and not conclude that it has gotten worse.
There is an urgent need to reverse the decline in research funding, and a lot to discuss about how decisions are made. But setting up a death match between Big Science and the rest is not the way to go.
Yoshitaka Fujii falsified 183 papers before statistics exposed him.
by Michael Eisen, co-Founder of PLoS
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting 'outmoded' publishing practices.
As science money is increasingly awarded to a small number of expensive projects, some academics argue that a new funding system is needed.
Enough with the long author lists - we are running out of space.
Advocates of open access tell only one side of the story, ignoring the exploitative practices and poor quality of many open-access journals.
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting 'outmoded' publishing practices.
Experts in science policy from across Europe, have expressed some nuanced scepticism at the new EC scientific advice mechanism.
Altmetrics is one of the hotly debated topics in the Open Science movement today.
Key ideas behind the future of scientific publishing will be done primarily by two groups of outsiders: exceptionally creative user interface designers, and people who design group experiences.
Has the traditional format of the science journal had its day? Dorothy Bishop outlines an alternative model, based on consensual communication.
The possibility the UK will vote to leave the EU would be a disaster for British science.
In academia, strong hierarchies and nepotism compound problems associated with biases.
The surprising power of the psychology of consensus.
in 2012 a new law ordered French public employers to offer stable employment to workers after 6 years of short-term contracts. It backfired.
There’s no doubt political parties listen to think tanks. Using them to present academic work could help researchers penetrate the Westminster bubble.
Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scrutiny of every step, not merely the last one.
