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The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."
The giant journal company said it was merely protecting its own proprietary system. But a wave of critics on social media said they were suspicious of its motives.
A spirit of collective enterprise in scientific research is being replaced by a rush to assign precise credit for who did what.
Sanjay Srivastava’s assessment of the state of psychology mixes a certain four-letter word and gallows humor with a desire to raise awareness of important research issues in his field.
Balancing an academic career with the realities of a biological clock.
Hundreds of scientists said the research community isn’t yet ready to release data on a relatively quick turnaround.
How do you edit Barack Obama? The Chronicle spoke to the editor in chief of a journal that published the president’s article on the future of health-care reform on Monday.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
A. Hope Jahren on women, research, and life in the lab.
Women do more of the day-to-day labor of science while men are credited with more of the big-picture thinking.
Last year "PLOS ONE" published 10% fewer papers than it did two years ago, but its editors are not alarmed.
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.
In the effort to keep ourselves academically pure, we’ve also become largely irrelevant in molding the most important social enterprises of our era.
As scientists and policymakers gather in Auckland for a global summit on scientific advice, what lessons can we identify that apply across diverse national systems?
Scientists who use government money to conduct genomic research will be required to quickly share the data they gather under a policy announced on Wednesday by the NIH.
Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we're steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.
At the new Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, or Metrics, John P.A. Ioannidis and Steven N. Goodman, both professors of medicine at Stanford, plan to study how research is done, and how it can be done better.
The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.'s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at the University of California at Berkeley, I was delighted to learn that about half of the incoming doctoral students in the biological sciences-and more than 30 percent in heavily male fields like chemistry and engineering-were women.
Researchers have been receiving notices from Academia.edu with takedown requests from Elsevier.
