The basic principle for any incentive scheme is this: can you measure everything that matters?

It’s not just about distributing credit where it’s due

Revised text of a talk given by the Director of Libraries at MIT.

Scientific research remains male-dominated—but women are catching up.

Join the online community to share, enjoy and vote the art of science. Share scientific images and participate in microscope photography competitions.

A data set interrogation tool in the field of cell and molecular biology.

A platform enabling scientists to create, share and control open and affordable lab automation tools.

A beautiful new way to create and share research figures.

Figures, HackScience and HipDynamics, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space.

An open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform.

Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.

The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.

A few months ago, Stephen Heard wrote a blog post that prompted us to have a brief twitter discussion on whether we sign our reviews.

From ideas to action: discussion on how to write a grant proposal

As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, three Starting Grant awardees describe their career paths.

The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.

Allow me to pull back the curtain. Scientist #1 is writing a paper and wants to add a reference in the introduction.

Why do we blame the media for reporting on bad studies but we don’t blame scientists for citing bad studies?

Ten suggestions to help increase your reach and impact according to ScienceOpen.

Their schools may not have caught up yet, but these biologists are embracing the era of big data.

Pioneering semantic platform with Linked Open Data to serve the needs of the research community.

Starting a family has less influence than before on the pursuit of an academic career for researchers.

How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.

Transcript of Moedas' speech on funding and innovation.

To help scientists build a career, Pfunders must earmark cash, reduce emphasis on collaboration, and improve the application process.

A ranking of the best science-news outlets misjudges the relationship between research and reporting.

Open access publishing is gaining more and more momentum, and post-publication peer review is becoming more common. Those developments have both upsides and downsides.

Several of us responded with enthusiasm to the recent news that The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened up their digitised collections.

Stencila, an app for creating and viewing data-driven reproducible publications.