Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.
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A study of 736 biological science journals showed only a small fraction are making efforts to foster a multilingual scientific community.
Theranos was dissolved years ago, and its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is in prison, but the company’s patents based on bad science live on – a stark example of the persistence of faulty information.
The open-access service PCI has opened the door for researchers to take charge of the review and publishing system, and move toward greater transparency in knowledge production.
Preprints are often free to use, making them more accessible for journalists to report on. However, as they have yet to undergo peer review, science journalists take a gamble on their accuracy.
When the scientific establishment gets involved in partisan politics, surveys suggest, there are unintended consequences – especially for conservatives.
Research shows how failing to engage the public can lead scientists’ work to be inaccurately reported and interpreted.
Trump doesn’t just ignore science, he attacks it. Australia’s experts have an obligation to speak out on crises such as the coronavirus pandemic, even if it means picking a side in our politics.
Journal comments are responses to previously published articles. The gender disparity in the authorship of these comments both reflects and contributes to women’s opportunities in scientific research.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
If journal editors fail to retract or properly flag data revealed as inaccurate, they leave open the possibility that it’ll be cited for years to come.
Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women’s career advancement.
Universities in New Zealand spent close to US$15 million on subscriptions to just four publishers in 2016, data that was only released following a request to the Ombudsman.
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Ph.D Candidate in Psychology, University of Washington
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Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
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York Research Chair and Associate Professor, York University, Canada
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Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
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Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia
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PhD Candidate in Psychology (Science Communication), Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
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