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
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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
Successful Research Papers Cite Young References
A new analysis of scientific citations has revealed previously unknown patterns
Preprints with The Lancet Launches on SSRN
Elsevier’s world leading preprint server and early stage research platform has announced the launch of "Preprints with The Lancet"—a new preprint series for sharing early stage health and medical research
Professors Find "Widespread Misattribution" in Research Publications and Grant Proposals
Along with coercive citation, researchers looked at the addition of false investigators to grant proposals as well as honorary authorship and padded citations
Science Spin Prevalent, Researchers Warn
Extent of spin in biomedical scientific papers revealed
Predatory Journals a Global Problem
Investigation in Nature reveals high income countries not immune