ScienceGeist

Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.

Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.

BulliedIntoBadScience.org for early career researchers who aim for a fairer, more open and ethical research and publication environment.

Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

Peer review is the gold standard for scientific communication, but its ability to guarantee the quality of published research remains difficult to verify.

Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.

The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.

Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research

The potential for open scholarship to improve university research and education, as well asincrease the impact universities can have beyond their own walls.

Can we as a community provide citizen scientists worldwide a chance to publish open access peer reviewed articles without significant cost through a competitive publication fee subsidy scheme where each application is reviewed by the national science funding agency?

How much German universities and research organisations spent on open access publication fees.

This essay unifies key epistemological concepts in a consistent mathematical framework built on two postulates: 1-information is finite; 2-knowledge is information compression.

Biases in grant proposal success rates, funding rates and award sizes affect the geographical distribution of funding for biomedical research

Citation counts are not purely a reflection of scientific merit and the impact factor is, in fact, auto-correlated.

Institutions and funders should be alert to unfeasibly prolific authors when measuring and creating incentives for researcher productivity.