Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it.

Women get paid less at every education level and in nearly every major.

To attract more girls to study Stem subjects at university, we need to tackle the stereotypes they are exposed to early on.

China produces the most scientific articles, but lags on other measures. 

Some thoughts on how to approach writing manuscripts based on original biomedical research.

Information about research metrics across disciplines, including how each metric is calculated, where you can find it, and how each should (and should not) be applied.

Editors and peer reviewers impose tougher standards on women. This is evident from the fact that female-authored economics papers take around six months more to go through the review process than male-authored papers. As a result, female academics come to experience peer review as a much tougher process and those who progress on the career ladder adjust their expectations about what is required. Female researchers publish less than their male peers do but what they publish is much more readable and better written.

27 Twitter accounts bringing out the silly, quirky, and fun side of academia, introducing you to a space on Twitter where academics can be casual, friendly, and humorous.

House races feature unusual upsurge in entrants with technical backgrounds.

Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.

Canada's Budget 2018 has been released by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. In this post, Brooke Struck examines the budget's implications for Canada's three research granting councils.

As late as 1999 there were only four blacks teaching mathematics among the more than 900 faculty members of the mathematics departments of the nation’s 25 highest-ranked universities.

The journal Archives of Iranian Medicine just published a set of 33 papers about one study.

Science is not a belief system. It is rather a defined process we can use to accurately answer questions and come to a better understanding of our natural world.

A set of criteria behind PLOS recommended data repositories.

FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.

New Stanford research shows how companies alienate women before they start working.

An inquiry into why research on the nature of dogs gets so much attention raises the question of whether there are actually more studies of dogs.

The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives.

Nature explores the most-cited research of all time.

A study has revealed a high prevalence of inconsistencies in reported statistical test results. Such inconsistencies make results unreliable, as they become “irreproducible”, and ultimately affect the level of trust in scientific reporting.

Chinese officials say they are seeing a payoff from their investments in higher education.

A set of guidelines could trigger positive action.

A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.

One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …

How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.

Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.

A peer review overlay for the life sciences.

Lutz Jäncke and Lawrence Rajendran talk about the crisis in the publication process and new solutions.

Thirty years ago, MSU researcher Richard Lenski added his now-famous bacteria to 12 inaugural flasks, a process he and his team of lab technicians and students have been repeating daily ever since.