Subject Area: Research Analysis & Policy

This Collection highlights some of PLOS Biology’s Meta-Research articles since 2016 as well as some of PLOS ONE’s articles over the past few years, all about “research on research,” or the…

Cities are centres of human interactions and the innovations that arise from them. Urbanization has led to many positive developments for society, but also contributes to many of our most pressing…

The publication of negative, null and inconclusive results is important to provide scientists with balanced information and avoid the duplication of efforts testing similar hypotheses, which waste…

Recognizing the need for training and education in bioinformatics and computational biology specifically targeted to biologists, PLOS Computational Biology launched its Education section in January…

"Ten Simple Rules" provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers…

This series of perspective articles from computational biologists in a variety of countries, offers their personal viewpoint on the history, current status, and future of computational biology in…

In keeping with our primary mission of making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource, PLOS periodically publishes articles that explore the issues surrounding open…

This Collection aims to increase the coverage of computational biology-related topics in Wikipedia by rewarding authors with a citable, PubMed-indexed static version of the living document on…

Meta-research, or the scientific study of research practices, aims to characterize existing standards and ultimately improve the quality and reliability of scientific research. We collect here…

Society has benefited from advances in science over the last two centuries, but it’s not always clear where the roots of all of these great discoveries lie. All research needs a basic…