A study of protein databases shows that discoverers who are second to publish still end up getting a substantial portion of the recognition.

It's time to trust students to handle doubt and diversity in science, says Jerry Ravetz.

Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos - or something else entirely.

Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.

A swift increase in scientific productivity has outstripped the country's ability to promote rigour and curb academic misconduct; it is time to seize solutions.

Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.

Scientists should take a more intentional, evidence-based approach to mentoring, including tenure and promotion incentives, according to an upcoming report from the US National Academies.

The publisher is committed to financial sustainability. How it achieves it is an open question.

Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.

Some funders and publishers call it unethical, for others, it's par for the course.

Archivists are the great secret-keepers of history, caught in a negotiation between the past and future. Restrictions and withholding policies serve as their bargaining chip.

Connections prove resilient as researchers circumvent geopolitical obstacles.

This report reveals how global research and discovery is evolving to address poverty, reduce inequality and deal with the effects of climate change via the UN SDGs.

How Flipping a Journal Became About More Than Just Open Access

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

If the work is in the public domain, no copyright licenses should be applied and in the case of CC licenses which are designed to only operate where copyright exists, the application of a CC license is ineffective.

For years, researchers weren't exactly sure what to make of these extra loops of genetic material . That's quickly changing.

A growing number of research agencies are assigning money randomly. The Swiss National Science Foundation is the latest funder to experiment with random selection.

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public's trust in scientists has remained stable and high over decades.

The move comes amid concerns over China's influence on Australian campuses, and after major cybersecurity breaches at one institution.

In a collaborative effort Dutch institutes and funders start development of new system of recognition and rewards.

Recognizing the world's most influential researchers  of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is piloting a narrative CV format in the Veni scheme, its major funding instrument for early career researchers. The format advances showcasing diverse types of talent and encourages assessment of quality rather than quantity.

The Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on Research Integrity, which forms the basis of this report, was carried out between July 2018 and June 2019 by a dedicated Policy Support Facility (PSF) panel consisting of four independent experts and twelve countries.

Graduate students said their schools would have no reason to bargain with them over wages, health care and other compensation items if they aren't considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act.

Member states' reported plans for Horizon Europe branded 'completely unacceptable' and potentially 'disastrous'.

Draft update to 2003 policy of the National Institute of Health will require that all grantees make data sets freely available.