The Metascience Research Lab is asking big questions about the future of science and discovery
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MSRL in the news
Media coverage, interviews, invited talks, and public conversations featuring MSRL members and their research.
Women are twice as likely as men to leave academia after becoming parents
Chemical & Engineering News
Career effects of preprints get mixed reviews from biomedical researchers
Science
Beyond the Tenure Debate: What do faculty career and research trajectories show?
UC Berkeley School of Information
How English-centric metrics distort global scientific productivity
The Scientist
When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow
Science
How getting tenure changes researchers’ publication habits — and citations
Nature
The impact of faculty tenure on research output explored in new study
Forbes
Study: Tenure doesn’t slow average research output
Inside Higher Ed
Is tenure a golden age for research?
Kellogg Insight
ScienceAdviser: Measuring impact by a paper’s journal undervalues influential science
Science
Article-level metrics would provide more recognition to most researchers than journal-level metrics
PLOS / EurekAlert
Information School research roundup: fall 2025
iSchool
Campus libraries play integral role in research at UW-Madison
iSchool
Science-of-science researchers at the iSchool expose imbalances in biomedical research
iSchool
Women scientists are less likely than men to be covered by the media
Chemical & Engineering News
Machine learning analysis of research citations highlights importance of federal funding for basic scientific research
UW-Madison News
Parenting takes a heavy toll on the careers of female academics in North America
Chemistry World
Most preprint studies of COVID-19 hold up through peer-review
UW-Madison News
UW researchers show COVID-19 preprint data remains largely unchanged after peer review
The Badger Herald
Academia’s missing references
OpenCitations
Exploring the role of gender in scholarly authorship disputes
ScienceDaily
Women experience authorship disputes more than men
Inside Higher Ed
Women more likely to experience author disputes when publishing their research, finds study
Physics World
Artificial-intelligence tools aim to tame the coronavirus literature
Nature
Black Scientists Held Back by Perceptions of Their Priorities
The New York Times
Predicting translational progress from citations of NIH-supported fundamental research
NIH Open Mike