Paul Jump

Paul Jump examines the many reasons for irreproducibility in science and efforts to tackle it

A bid to reproduce key studies is less a tale of failure than of researchers’ willingness to put their own practices to the test

Postponement of responsive mode grants partly aimed at preserving success rates while research council makes ‘additional large investments’

Alternative treatments in healthcare plan is latest in a series of homeopathy-related controversies

The eminent sociologist is entitled to draw on his long lifetime of thought, but should probably be clearer about the extent to which he is doing so, says Paul Jump

Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations

Crick and Watson's landmark papers on the structure of DNA would have been rejected by modern editors for lack of data, researcher argues

Asking R&D-heavy companies to help plug gaps in the science budget has implicit appeal but, in reality, only increased public spending is likely to keep global firms in the UK, says Paul Jump

Bibliometric analysis concludes lower-quality thresholds in 2014 are more likely explanation for doubling of top-rated research

Budget document says the relief was never intended for higher education institutions

About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues