A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.

Journal suppression is an effective tool for reducing high rates of self-citation, even years after a title is reintroduced.

Let’s build an Open Science MOOC and change the world.

Website aiming to map the landscape of initiatives and activity in the development of Research Objects, an emerging approach to the publication, and exchange of scholarly information on the Web.

His nuclear research helped a judge determine that former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko had been assassinated – likely on Putin’s orders.

A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.

PLoS One's reporting guidelines as tools to enhance reproducibility.

Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.

Open Science Fair 2017 is having its first opening international conference in Athens, Greece, 6-8 September 2017.

A move into industry after a PhD may not bring immediate financial rewards, but it pays to know your strengths.

Papr allows you to rate abstracts and find Twitter users who share your interests.

Social media is not only a way for authors and publishers to disseminate research findings, it’s also increasingly being used by researchers to discover and read scientific content.

A conference on science, society and the future of gene editing

A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.

The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.

Jeffrey Beall is back after a five-month silence, with criticism for universities as well as fake publishers.

Recently, a new tool has come out that allows users to ‘jump the paywall’ and access research articles for free. It’s called Unpaywall, and it works by using information contained within papers.

Plagiarism. Cheating. Lying. Should these scientists get a second chance?

The right approach and a little extra effort will help improve your scientific literacy.

In May 2017, we sat down with ECS journal editors Robert Savinell and Dennis Hess at the 231st ECS Meeting.

What can we do to promote the productive use of preprints in biology?

Avoiding the r-word would make it easier for researchers to correct the literature after an honest mistake.

Learn the skills to supercharge your next audit, quality improvement or research project.

An introduction to research data management and sharing, starting Jun 19.

There is a movement within the scientific community that asks for greater collaboration between research teams. The idea is that with greater access to information, more people working separately on the same problems can solve them more efficiently and with the greatest transparency.

Yes, but only if you are a novice.

The biomedical research enterprise strives to be a meritocracy, but structural inequities and the reliance on nonscientific proxies such as journal impact and university prestige present roadblocks.

Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?

Glen Wright on the lighter side of scholarly collaboration

New report from influential group recommends ditching large-scale projects in favour of funding outstanding individual researchers, getting rid of submission deadlines and awarding smaller grants to make the pie go further.