careers, science publishing, academia

The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.

An analysis finds that reviewers are more likely to choose to be de-anonymized when their reviews are positive, suggesting instituting a fully open process might discourage negative feedback.

While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists’ work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea.

Half of early-career researchers say they’d participated in the peer review process with their mentors without getting credit.

Researchers present a tool that uses a scientist’s PubMed data to estimate the probability of becoming a principal investigator in academia.

US scientists are more likely to coauthor papers with researchers of similar ethnicity to themselves, but manuscripts with a more diverse list of authors have greater impact, a study shows.