2023 Maddox Prize Winners Announced
Since 2012, the John Maddox Prize has recognized individuals who stand up for science and advance public discussions around challenging topics.
Plain Language Summaries “Go Beyond Language”
Creating effective plain-language summaries requires looking beyond the language, says Dr. Catherine Richards Golini.
New Recipe for Research: Add Humor
Spending on research is serious business. So why would anyone want to make fun of it?
Publishing Zeroes in on Net Zero
Publishing is sharing information and data on climate change while taking steps to drive systemic change within its own sector.
The War On Science… And On Scientists
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted an ongoing and escalating attack on science that is much more than a philosophical debate. It is an attack on scientists, too.
Shutting Down Paper Mills
No matter what the discipline, fake papers published in unsuspecting scholarly journals are damaging to the trust that researchers and other readers have in what they read.
Confidence In Research
Elsevier has launched a global collaboration to understand the impact of the pandemic on confidence in research and to learn how researchers may better maneuver in a rapidly changing scientific landscape.
Preprints, Retractions & The Scientific Record
A peer-reviewed article published this month in PLOS ONE has examined what happens in the scientific record when journal-published versions of articles are retracted in cases of research previously available on preprint servers.
Plain Language Means Better Science
Plain Language Summaries move published research beyond the basic definition of Open Access – availability – toward a more ambitious goal of understandability.
Reckoning with Remote Research
Revealing insights on what pandemic lockdowns meant for drug researchers who also were caregivers.