How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately?

Speech by Bjørn Haugstads, State Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Education and Research

We are releasing a new version of Impactstory!

It is an unfortunate convention of science that research should pretend to be reproducible; our top tips will help you mitigate this fussy conventionality, enabling you to enthusiastically showcase your irreproducible work.

What if I told you that you don't need journals to do peer review?

Please make it stop.

After many and long conversations among colleagues within and beyond the Scholarly Kitchen about what researchers need to know about scholarly publishing.

Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…

Athene Donald weighs up a survey of workplace changes designed to avoid gender bias.

Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.

Authors have, in general, a positive view on open access, but other factors are more important in choosing a place of publication for an academic article.

Rejection hurts more when you don't have a long-term contract to fall back on, says Helen Lees.

Professor Matthew Wallenstein wants to bring what he has learned as an entrepreneur to his colleagues in academia.

For 16th century zoologists, it was like Google's arrival. Rather than punch a keyboard, they could thumb over Conrad Gessner’s sensational work.

A tribute to an old video game and to the greatest scientists in history.

A Year in Reviews

Some scientists are taking it upon themselves to go beyond their core research areas to study where the scientific system can go wrong.

Having to dismiss lab members is not easy, but there are ways to make the process less painful for all involved.

Looking across the three generations in my family, I see huge improvements in the experience of women in science, but obstacles still remain for my daughter's generation.

Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached.

On the many ways to say the same thing.

The NIH joins forces with a tech company to launch a matchmaking program that aims to help investigators find secondary funding sources.

Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?

Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.

The fight over the Crispr patents.

The replication crisis is a sign that science is working.

Putting Science 2.0 and Open Science into practice

Video, podcast and summary.

The number of researchers doubles every ten to fifteen years. In his manuscript, Gottfried Schatz highlights the problems which growth creates for science. He explains the difference between knowledge and science and the reason why less knowledge and more science should be taught in our kindergartens, schools and universities.

High level European policy meeting on funding research data to support open innovation, 6 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.