A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do.

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

Trees are supposed to slow global warming, but growing evidence suggests they might not always be climate saviours.

Scientists dive into trove of insurance claims data to determine what causes most diseases.

Glaciers are crucial sources of water for people and crops in Central Asia. But global warming is causing glaciers there and around the world to shrink every year.

Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."

ORCID has provided peer review functionality for going on three years. Peer review recognition is part of our broader commitment to improve recognition for all research contributions. It’s something that reviewers feel strongly about too.

New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, set out to find a cure.

Leading scientist Patricia Falcone speaks with podcast host Margaret Koval about the importance of college mathematics, early research experience and clear communications.

Scientists who have historically been at a disadvantage when pursuing traditional funding sources are now the most successful at sourcing money from the public.

The field has plenty of talented women, but to reach leadership roles they must have visible and recognizable roles within medicine and in the public

We are proud to announce the release of enhancements which significantly facilitate scientific software citation and discovery.

Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

2019 - At ORCID the Year of the Researcher 

Scientists say that increasingly rigorous licensing procedures have complicated research efforts - and in some cases, stopped experiments completely.

Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won't until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.

Robert-Jan Smits is pitching the Plan S vision to transform academic publishing to the world’s big science funding bodies.

  So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

Young women and girls look to Hollywood for inspiration and guidance, but how can we be sure movies and TV are positively representing women in STEM?

The move from Academia to the 'real world' requires a few crucial mindset shifts. 

End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.

The most-searched keywords in the Scopus database and on Google, revealed.

Workshop concludes that early-career researchers can make important contributions to policy decisions and experimenting with various forms of communication (i.e. opinion pieces, youtube channels, and tweeting at MPs) had the potential to improve knowledge transfer.