Author or contributor? The A to Z of authorship
The average number of authors on scientific articles has increased 5-fold over the last 100 years, from one author per…
Funder data sharing policies
As well as journals, funders (NIH, STFC, NERC, Wellcome Trust, et al.) are also starting to implement mandatory data sharing…
Publisher data sharing policies
Many journals (PLOS One, Nature, The Royal Society, et al.) now have mandatory data sharing policies. This means that researchers…
Reproducibility and data repositories
The scientific method is founded on confirming results through repeat experiments. By replicating the results of a study, researchers can…
Conflict of Interest
What is a conflict of interest? “Conflict of interest is a set of conditions in which professional judgement concerning a…
