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The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…
A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”
For some time now PLOS has discussed new initiatives designed to accelerate research communication.
Over a decade has passed since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. A bystander could be forgiven for thinking that the level of discussion and the apparent differences in position across higher education institutions, publishing houses, laboratories, conference halls, funder headquarters, and government buildings must mean that progress has been limited.
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
A guide on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.
Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.
Funding can focus science on the long game; just ask Will Ratcliff, freshly named a Packard Fellow.
How easy is it really to exactly replicate a scientific experiment by just reading the published result?
President Obama Hosts Frontiers Conference, Focusing on the Potential of Science, Technology, and Innovation to Drive Prosperity and Address Challenges in Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary Frontiers for the Next 50 Years and Beyond.
We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.
An interactive visualization of article publication data from the 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Report suggest discrepancies in the cultures of science around the world.
Are the Article Processing Charge (APC) levels set for high-end OA journals too low to be sustainable?
Colin Macilwain presents five take-home messages from today's Framework 9 event in Brussels.
Failing to record the version of any piece of software or hardware, overlooking a single parameter, or glossing over a restriction on how to use another researcher's code can lead you astray.
Undergraduates from small, elite institutions have the best chance of winning a Nobel prize.
What machine learning could do, and barriers to its use, with global pharmaceutical companies, sector associations, regulators, start-ups and SMEs.
Chris Carroll argues that the impact of an academic research paper might be better measured by counting the number of times it is cited within citing publications rather than by simply measuring if it has been cited or not.
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.
