Is English the Lingua Franca of Science? Not for Everyone
For many non-English speakers, language is a hindrance to full participation in science
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New Peer Reviews of COVID-19 Research Highlight Promising, Warn of Misleading Studies
Recent COVID-19 studies ranked by reviewers as either strong, reliable, potentially informative, not informative, or misleading
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Solving Cold Cases
Through advances in DNA sequencing and bioinformatics, the relatively new field of forensic genomics is enabling a broad range of cold cases to be solved
Pandemic Spawns 'Infodemic' in Scientific Literature
New policies and technologies could help make sense of flood of information
WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms?
Despite repeated calls for scientists to reduce their use of acronyms and jargon in journal papers, the advice has been largely ignored, new research shows
How We Can Enhance Research Integrity in Academia
An international team has developed five principles that institutions can follow to measure and reward research integrity, aiming to avoid the traditional "publish or perish" system
Report: Preprints Account for One Quarter of COVID-19 Research
New Digital Science report analyzes publication trends, regional focal points of research, collaboration patterns, and top institutional producers of research in COVID-19
Readcube Launches Free Research Pass Program to Enable Broad Full-Text Access for COVID-19 Researchers
The COVID-19 Research Pass program provides direct access to over 26 million articles and is available to anyone studying or writing about COVID-19
Study: Conflict of Interest Disclosures Don't Alter the Recommendations of Peer Reviewers
New paper is the latest in a long line of research showing that disclosure is an inadequate response to COIs that are rampant in medicine
Can Science Writing Be Automated?
A neural network can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary