New axes of stratification are emerging in academic publishing, adding to the already complex tapestry of inequality in science. Authors working at lower-ranked universities are more likely to publish in closed/paywalled outlets, and less likely to choose outlets that involve some sort of Article Processing Charge (APCs; gold or hybrid OA).

The influence of discourses of internationalisation and excellence on formal and applied selection criteria in academia.

A new study explores a strange paradox: In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions.

Empirical study examining the similarities and distinguishing features of scientific attention as measured by citations and public attention in online fora.

At least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. Also, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA.

For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.

This research article describes a procedure to generate a snapshot of the structure of a specific scientific community and their outputs based on the information available in Google Scholar Citations (GSC)....

The Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics standardizes the generation and distribution of usage metrics for research data, enabling for the first time the consistent and credible reporting of research data usage.

Results of the Peer Review in the Life Sciences survey conducted by ASAPbio.

The Journal Impact Factor is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction over 40 years ago, it has had enormous effects on the scientific ecosystem. This paper by Cassidy R. Sugimoto provides a brief history of the indicator and highlights well-known limitations.

A study that examines the publication bias due to authors’ reputation shows that more reputed authors were less likely to be rejected with negative reviews, and that journal-specificities were important but never completely reversed this outcome.

This study describes views, downloads, Altmetric scores, and citations of articles published as preprints and differences in Altmetric scores and citations of published articles by prior preprint status.

There is a replication crisis spreading through the annals of scientific inquiry.

Reproducible research includes sharing data and code.  The reproducibility policy at the journal Biostatistics rewards articles with badges for data and code sharing.  This study investigates the effect of badges at increasing reproducible research, specifically, data and code sharing, at Biostatistics.

The new report 2018 shows that the US leads in S&E as China rapidly advances.

This article describes the use of qualitative research to explore the peer review process used for awarding grants to ten multi-national natural science research consortia

The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of an advisory report by the Dutch Academy of Sciences.

Pay disparities between female and male PhD holders in the United States exist across almost all fields of science and engineering, according to a report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.

Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.

Analysis suggesting that trustworthiness of published science in a given field is influenced by false positive rate, and pressures for positive results. We find decreasing available funding has negative consequences for resulting trustworthiness, and examine strategies to combat propagation of irreproducible science.

Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.

Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.

On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.

An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.

Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.

A paper providing a bibliometric analysis of Zenodo records by using different metrics for citedness, including citation, usage, and altmetrics. 

Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.