The Nature Index tracks the affiliations of high-quality scientific articles. The infographic indicates patterns of international collaboration captured by the Nature Index.

In this blog, I will examine the hypothesis that blogs are, on average, of higher quality than journal articles.

The growing need for collaboration among young scientists is more essential now than ever before, with careers in research becoming more uncertain and perilous.

Post-publication peer review emerged in response to increased calls for continuous moderation of the published research literature.

A message from eLife early career group made up of graduate students, post docs, and junior group leaders of the eLife early-career advisory board.

The process for correcting a published article can be needlessly burdensome. So some researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

There is an important point here: we simply can’t build a meaningfully open scholarly infrastructure that is dependent on the whims of corporations. It can’t be done.

The Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, which was in the planning since 4 years, will be held September 10-12, 2017, in Chicago.

An international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.

A second generation of gig economy startups is abandoning a dependence on contractors in favor of full employees.

A new organization, I4OC, is working towards making reliable, structured data of authors, reference lists, and citations accessible to the public.

On April 22nd, 2017, the March For Science, Geneva, will be one of hundreds of marches taking place around the world to affirm that science is crucial to society — and belongs to everyone.

OMICtools bridges the gap between life science and computational biology.

Tracking anti-science policies and statements of the new Administration.

If you are terrified to meet with your supervisor, start with small doses.

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about six months, the initiative has made a large fraction of the citation data that link all scholarship freely available.

Topics range from cultures of translation in the early modern period to functions of the CRISPR-Cas system / Approximately €100 million for three years

A new programme aimed at providing funding to Irish researchers involved in exploratory blue skies research has been launched.

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

While the US accounts for 75% of global digital health deal share, deal flow to international startups continues to climb.

Column by Maria Leptin, Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Statement by Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation concerning the recent legislative changes to the Hungarian national higher education Act.

Q&A with the author of a new book on reproducibility.

Read paywalled research papers for free. It's fast, free, and legal, powered by a database of millions of author-uploaded PDFs.

Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.

Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.

The vision for what is hoped to be the largest science advocacy event in history.

In our complex and interconnected world, we need leaders of imagination, understanding, and emotional intelligence. To cultivate such leaders, we must value and invest in the humanities, says Peter Salovey, President of Yale University.

How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered to be objective? How can something exclusive, secretive, and irreproducible be considered as a ‘gold standard’ of any sort?