Very few papers tell the true story of the research they report. Registered Reports, a research article format originally designed to combat bias and… Read more »
Disgusted with current peer review processes, some are opting out of peer review altogether and publishing on preprint servers. Can we offer a less… Read more »
Peer reviewers are the unsung heroes of science. We celebrate reviewers through a series of interviews with people who have made… Read more »
Jack the Ripper hit the headlines this week, as his supposed ‘true’ identity was revealed. It was said to be none other than… Read more »
As the human genome sequence was completed, so the deep analysis of it began in earnest with the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements… Read more »
In 2013, BioMed Central's blog and Biome magazine have dedicated quite some space to considering alternative models of peer… Read more »
Selective journals, in particular journals that select on grounds of interest or importance, inevitably disappoint many authors of… Read more »
In the five years since the publication of the ‘Painful publishing’ letter in Science by Martin Raff , Alexander Johnson and… Read more »