A comprehensive and data-driven portrait of Europe’s technology ecosystem.

Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be improved.

For the year 2016, 28.9 % of all peer-reviewed articles produced within the Finnish universities were reported as being OA.

Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases.

Topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the  research activity in these disciplines.

New study suggests a major return on investment for institutions that help their researchers write better grants.

A collection that explores recent developments and debates in the UK and internationally, offering varied perspectives on the future of research assessment.

Adequate sample size is key to reproducible research findings: low statistical power can increase the probability that a statistically significant result is a false positive.

Academia needs to carefully evaluate why new family friendly policies have not been very effective.

An analysis of a large database of medical research papers shows a correlation between women's authorship and the likelihood of a study including gender and sex analysis.

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.

A  large-scale empirical study based on F1000Prime, altmetrics, and citation  data.

Every year, disasters impact human lives and take a significant economic toll. Science plays a key role in reducing disaster risk and mitigating impact.

The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.

A forgotten experiment from the 1960s.

On the task of changing scientific research into open scientific research and commiting to Open Science principles.

Comments on "Redefine statistical significance"

Single-blind reviewing confers a significant advantage to papers with famous authors and authors from high-prestige institutions.

A clear citation advantage for open publishing with open available documents receiving twice as many citations.

The world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world.

Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.

A set of scenarios produced by the School of International Futures, published here as a tool for others to use in exploring alternative futures for UK research and innovation.

Why is is needed and how it can be achieved easily and cheaply.

Dealing with error and bias in academic research.

An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.

Time to rethink retractions and corrections?

Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than their female peers, even within the same institution. The majors drivers of that gap remain unclear, but one factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.

How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.

While part of the original motivation of the first research publication in serial form — the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 — was to make money, the early history of scholarly publishing is largely one of community subsidy to cover losses or breaking even.

Considerations of open access models that can work across disciplines. The case of ELife, PLoS, and BioOne.