National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom
An report on US threats to academic freedom in science, particularly in the areas of international scholarly exchange and climate science.
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Is Media Driving Americans Apart?
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Open Journal Systems Is Not for Sale
With the recent acquisition of bepress by Elsevier, we’ve been asked by a number of people if Open Journal Systems is next.
Science's Data Secrecy Problem
A surprising amount of publicly funded research data stays private. How could that change?
An Ineffective and Unworthy Institution
Les Hatton and Gregory Warr give their two-pronged solution to the problems of peer review
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Normalization of Zero-Inflated Data: An Empirical Analysis of a New Indicator Family and Its Use with Altmetrics Data
Normalization of Zero-Inflated Data: An Empirical Analysis of a New Indicator Family and Its Use with Altmetrics Data
Proposing and testing a new indicator, the Mantel-Haenszel quotient.
The "Gender Factory"
How the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women and men.
Authorship and Citation Manipulation in Academic Research
Authorship and Citation Manipulation in Academic Research
Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort.
The Wikipedia Competitor That's Harnessing Blockchain For Epistemological Supremacy
Everipedia, a two-year-old online encyclopedia, will become a decentralized, peer-to-peer, user-owned resource.
Why Garbage Science Gets Published
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
Harassment in Science Is Real
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
The Misinterpretation of P-Values
We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p -value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive?
India's Misfire on Predatory Publishing Hits Open Access
In trying to thwart predators, the government is penalizing researchers who publish in genuine open-access journals.
Commitment to Science Begins to Pay Off
A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.
Should Scientists Receive Credit for Peer Review?
We might hope for a better future where everyone acts professionally, but we should be realistic about the flaws of our human nature. Opinion piece by Stephen Curry.
Hundreds of German Universities Set to Lose Access to Elsevier Journals
Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly.
Rwanda's First All-Female University Is Training Up The Next Generation Of Women Leaders
Jim Simons, the Numbers King
Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.
Zimbabwe's New Government Must Commit to Science
As a new president takes office, scientists in the country and beyond should urge the administration to make science a priority, says Dexter Tagwireyi.
Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages
Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
Open Citations Letter
In an open letter scientometricians make a call to scholarly publishers to make the reference lists of the articles they publish openly available.
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