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Budgetary cuts in funding, pseudoscience and growing religious bigotry have left the scientific community worried.
It’s a dirty open secret in academia. Scholars work very hard to prove their work is worth taxpayers’ money, but then publish it in journals that are prohibitively expensive—not just for taxpayers but academics themselves.
It’s very far from perfect, but major changes for the better are underway.
Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the public and policymakers. One fundamental suggestion when communicating with non-experts is to avoid professional jargon.
Emojis, smartphone technologies and revamped guidelines would boost transparency at scientific meetings, say Shai D. Silberberg and colleagues.
As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.
A new project to convert PDF to XML with high accuracy by complementing existing tools with computer vision technology.
We propose to use an approach that yields a simple numerical measure of veracity, the R-factor, by summarizing the outcomes of already published studies that have attempted to test a claim.
Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally.
Although there are differences among journals across the spectrum of JIFs, the citation distributions overlap extensively, demonstrating that the citation performance of individual papers cannot be inferred from the JIF.
Oliver Rosten believes the postdoctoral system played a role in his friend’s suicide. Disseminating that opinion in a scientific journal took perseverance.
U.S. adults see scientists as intelligent, but not always warm. This is a problem because people's perceptions of scientists' warmth influence their trust in scientific information. Could scientists be improving trust via social media?
A collection of thirteen papers that were intended to be unpublishable. All were submitted to predatory journals to expose non-existent peer review and exploitative practices.
Large study of open research analysed reader data from Unpaywall tool, which finds freely available versions of articles.
Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
A postdoc suing over exclusion from patents offers a lesson for anyone working on potentially lucrative research.
MilliporeSigma wins a key step in its claims to “knock-in” DNA with the powerful tool.
A Chinese biologist whose team on Wednesday retracted a high-profile paper on a gene-editing technology has vowed to press ahead with experiments that he hopes will vindicate the potential rival to the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.
The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.
German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?
The National Academies has launched a new study on how to move toward an open science enterprise.
