Why Scientists Love to Study Dogs (and Often Ignore Cats)
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.
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Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study the...
The UCUStrikes: a Battle for the Future of Higher Education
What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…
Researchers Coy About Complete Review Transparency
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
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 …
"Publication Practice Has to Change"
Lutz Jäncke and Lawrence Rajendran talk about the crisis in the publication process and new solutions.
It's Time to Stand up to the Academic Publishing Industry: Here’s How
Academia is unique in that professionals with highly specialized expertise, who are paid by public institutions, write articles and provide peer reviews to corporations who profit greatly without giving back to the research enterprise.
SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations
Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations
While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.
Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress
Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.
As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies
Sliced And Diced: The Inside Story Of How An Ivy League Food Scientist Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
Scientists Aim To Pull Peer Review Out Of The 17th Century
Some scientists want to change the old-fashioned way scientific advancements are evaluated and communicated. But they have to overcome the power structure of the traditional journal vetting process.
Where Are We with Responsible Metrics? And Where Might We Go Next? Reflections from Two Recent Events
Open-Access Charges 'Create New Inequalities' in Publishing
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
Google's Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
Comments Please! Open Science Training Handbook
Everyone who is interested in Open Science is invited to comment the first draft of an online handbook for Open Science trainers. The deadline for comments is 4 March 2018.
Decentralizing Science
The case for decentralized, trusted platforms for the dissemination of scientific information and attribution.
Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers
Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers
Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.
Negative Gender Ideologies and Gender-Science Stereotypes Are More Pervasive in Male-Dominated Academic Disciplines
Brilliant Scientific Discoveries We Have Badass Women to Thank For
Despite numerous push-backs and disregard from male colleagues, these women persevered to make some of the greatest breakthroughs in scientific history, paving the way for millions of young women and girls to enter what was traditionally a male-dominated industry.
You'll Want to Keep an Eye on These 10 Breakthrough Technologies This Year
You'll Want to Keep an Eye on These 10 Breakthrough Technologies This Year
Dueling neural networks. Artificial embryos. AI in the cloud. Welcome to our annual list of the 10 technology advances we think will shape the way we work and live now and for years to come.
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