Oliver Rosten believes the postdoctoral system played a role in his friend’s suicide. Disseminating that opinion in a scientific journal took perseverance.

Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.

Research labs should take a page from the tech companies, by Ijad Madisch, founder of ResearchGate.

To conserve Earth's remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.

It’s time for a global movement that pushes academic research beyond journal paywalls so it makes a difference in the world.

Giving researchers the data skills they need to share, review, and validate each other’s work, writes Erin Becker.

Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.

Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.

It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.

The European Commission has offered funding for an internet for research data. But it’s unclear what it expects to get for its money.

Open data is increasingly common, but when it comes to tackling global disease, more needs to be done.

On the potential disconnect between what researchers want to research and what funders want to fund.

Science is endangered by statistical misunderstanding, and by university presidents and research funders who impose perverse incentives on scientists.

Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.

The bibliometric system and the rules which accompany it have created an environment in which many if not most researchers can be identified as transgressors.

Our work helps answer some of society's greatest challenges, but it's usually conveyed with technical language in journals most citizens never see.

The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.

China and other countries should look again at how they pay bonuses and allocate grants that are based on individual research papers.

Citizens need to ask for, understand and trust scientific evidence.

Just a hunch? Hardly. Think germ theory, atomic theory and the theory of evolution.

Why and how you can open up your data access.

Many decisions about whose work is recognized are at least partially arbitrary, and we should acknowledge that.

Public rejection might just be part of the journey to knowledge's acceptance.

The next EU research funding programme should be doubled in size to help fix Europe's growth problems, according to former World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy.

Government funding is a relatively recent phenomenon, but scientific progress is not.

Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.

Evaluating academic performance on the basis of journal publications is skewing research priorities. This does our public funders a disservice.

Liz Allen looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.

I recently decided to abandon the rules that govern nature for the rules that govern people and markets: economics. Why would I do such a thing?

Exploring research career transitions and shaping research culture in the UK.