The journal that couldn't stop citing itself
In a four-paragraph editorial published in 2014, the "Journal of Criminal Justice" made 47 citations, all of other pieces that had appeared in the same publication.
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British universities slip downing global rankings
Change in methodology beneficial to ETHZ and EPFL.
"WikiGate" raises questions about Wikipedia's commitment to open access
Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.
Europe's technological irrelevance
Please, European universities, stop playing in the second league when it comes to fundraising. Go out and ask your alumni for resources to help you build the next Stanford.
It’s a matter of sticks and carrots
Bernard Rentier explains how the University of Liege persuaded nearly all its researchers to put their papers in its institutional repository.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Why Is Science So Straight?
STEM culture must rein in the pressure to separate professional and personal identities.
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Overflow in science and its implications for trust
‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.
Scientific disintegrity as a public bad
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
Gender studies and interdisciplinarity
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
DOI Event Tracker
Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.
Using behavioral science insights to better serve the American people
Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.
Openness Initiative
An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.
Social sciences and humanities faculties to close after ministerial decree
7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.
Moedas to pick up from 150 scientists
More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.
arXiv.org will use ORCID identifiers
arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.
Fifth retraction for Voinnet follows correction
After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.
Preprints and the speed of science
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process. Preprints offer a way out.
Research funding should be 'simpler'
UK Minister for Universities and Science Jo Johnson wants to see a "simpler" research funding system as well as faster routes for private provider "challenger institutions" to enter higher education.
Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
In the US, taxpayers are said to be spending $139bn a year on research, and in the UK, £4.7bn. Too much of that money is disappearing into big pockets.
Reproducing results: how big is the problem?
Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it.
Barriers to Open Access publishing: views from the library literature
Insights into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
Unpatients - why patients should own their medical data
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.
Living science: Triaging Shakespeare
What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review? Indira M Raman considers the possibility.
The ReScience Journal
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research is reproducible.
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