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How many scientific papers drop into the void, never to be cited by anyone, ever again? There are all sorts of estimates floating around, many of them rather worryingly high, but this look at the situation by Nature suggests that things aren't so bad.
Striking success has been had in catalyzing retractions by publicly calling out perplexing data and spotting anomalies in the literature.
HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.
For the first 2 years of my Ph.D. program, my primary adviser was always available when I needed help, promptly responding to emails and meeting with me when questions arose. But that abruptly changed when he went on sabbatical and left the country.
"…cultural change rests with individual scientists, teams, and professional societies."
According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.
Journals are adopting policies that require the disclosure of individual authors’ contributions. However, it is not clear whether and how these disclosures improve upon the conventional approach.
The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.
Biologists are posting unreviewed papers in record numbers. Here's a survival guide.
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
Cultural differences between industry and academia can create or increase difficulties in reproducing research findings.
China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.
The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
“My university's resources to combat abusive supervisors are laughably ineffective.”
New procedures give president final say in academy's elections.
When I started formally mentoring undergraduate and graduate students almost 2 years ago, I was excited about the opportunity to help young scientists grow, but I was also nervous about the responsibility.
Long-time physician-scientist retains job he has held since 2009.
ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.
The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.
Over a 27-year period, 10% of NIH grants generate a patent directly but 30% generate articles that are subsequently cited by patents.
