Social Selection in 2015

Altmetric’s Top 100 list reveals the most popular papers on social media this year.

Scientists debate the merits of deleting journal names from their publication lists.

Researchers expressed outrage on social media, and conference organizer, the European Commission, apologized.

Geneticists discuss on social media the pros and cons of giving genome results to study participants.

The prickly topic of how to assign credit to scientists flares up on social media.

A statistician says a major scientific publisher is hindering his research.

Institute director’s struggle with hundreds of applications triggers online discussion of assessment of researchers.

The US biomedical funding agency is using the metric to evaluate funded research.

Research standards will advance the field, proponents say, but critics counter that they will stifle creativity.

Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.

Open-access publisher is the latest addition to controversial ‘Beall’s List’.

Scientists on social media grapple with the idea of posting preprints of provocative research presented at meetings.

Online responses ranged from wonder to disappointment.

Online commenters ridicule the name of an effort to boost girls’ interest in scientific careers.

A paper suggesting a Dutch grant scheme shows bias against women is criticized for a statistical flaw.

Researchers debate whether an ‘overflow’ of data is straining biomedical science.

Tales of scientific blunders and some unusual species names dominated social media this week.

New journal aims to publish from ‘all stages of the research cycle’.

Scientists with ‘super ties’ gain citation-rate reward.

Complaints ensued when attendees at an ecology meeting were asked to get permission before live-tweeting.