Tip sheets and explainers to help journalists understand academic research methods, find and recognize high-quality research, investigate scientific misconduct and research errors, and avoid missteps when reporting on new studies and public opinion polls.
Read on for great tips from Ivan Oransky, Elisabeth Bik and Jodi Cohen, three experts who have covered research misconduct or have hands-on experience monitoring or detecting it.
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A recent study finds that sample size is the only factor having a robust influence on 181 science journalists’ ratings of the trustworthiness and newsworthiness of a study. But they note that, overall, these journalists are doing a ‘very decent job’ vetting research. Here’s how they do it.
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Many journalists work hard to include people from different backgrounds in stories about local issues and events, but might not realize source diversity is also important in stories about science and research. Here are five reasons why.
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Journalists, researchers and the public can now access a searchable database of Facebook whistleblower documents, including internal chat threads, reports, presentations and more.
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PubPeer, a website where scholars critique one another’s work, is an excellent investigative reporting tool. These five tips will help you make the best use of it.
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From a booming bicycle industry in Little Rock, Arkansas to a central Minnesota restaurant that bought an apartment building for its employees to live in, our semi-regular rundown of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book is full of fresh story ideas.
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Some journalists might not realize that many academic journals let them bypass their paywalls. We show you which ones and how to set up free accounts.
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A lot of academic research exists behind paywalls. We outline eight ways reporters can get free access to high-quality scholarship.
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An economist and a statistician help us explain the right and wrong ways to use ‘per capita’ to describe data related to economics, public health and other news topics.
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Maya Gosztyla, a Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at the University of California San Diego, provides an overview of literature mapping tools, RSS feeds, research management software and databases to help journalists organize their research.
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