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The standardized test normally required for graduate school entrance in the US is being dropped by an increasing number of science PhD programs, amid concerns about diversity and the test's predictive value.
Article concludes that the Citation Ratio is a useful and promising tool for comparing scientific impact of publications across disciplines and potentially for interdisciplinary works.
Academics are thronging to university counselling rooms to seek help for mental health problems and stress, a report suggests.
In a significant escalation, policymakers are seeking to undermine or discard research showing the most dire risks of inaction on climate change.
University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.
MCAA and Eurodoc call on research institutions, funding bodies and governments to ensure sustainable researcher careers in a joint declaration.
Atomic Age would mark the start of the current geologic time unit, if proposal receives final approval.
Open Access (OA) publishing has a long history, going back to the early 1990s, and was born with the explicit intention of improving…
According to the latest research results, the presence of simple hyphens in the titles of academic papers adversely affects the citation statistics, regardless of the quality of the articles.
Just as patients' access to journals is important,so is the access of doctors in developing countries.
The region already hosts some of the world's leading scientific countries, and some of its smaller states are quickly catching up.
Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues’ positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings such as altruism and desire to reach a wide audience. Tenure status was not an apparent factor.
We need to let non-scientists know that science isn't based on "proof," but rather on the practice of testing and checking one another's work.
Having early and rapid access to research findings accelerates the pace of science and is paramount for advancing discovery. Springer Nature considers itself ideally placed to help facilitate this and making great research available as quickly as possible to the research community.
Gene therapy achieves a milestone. Novartis will sell the world’s most expensive drug, a treatment called Zolgensma to treat spinal muscular atrophy.
Do Swiss researchers share their data with other researchers and with the public? And if not, why? Which data repositories and other channels do they use for data sharing? A large-scale survey by the SNSF and swissuniversities offers some answers.
There has recently been a significant amount of media concern surrounding the poor mental health of academics. This extended paper sets out the scale of the problem and examines the factors which academics have identified as key causes of stress.
A brief review of studies linking social media and article-level performance.
The recent fashion for “transformative” Read-and-Publish agreements - are they really what’s needed to deliver affordable open access? An opinion piece.
The Royal Society is working to achieve the best outcome for research and innovation through the Brexit negotiations and support continuing relationships and build new ones across Europe and beyond.
I attended csv,conf,v4 in Portland, Oregon in May 2019. Here are a few reflections about the conference and a bit about my talk where I shared progress from the Openscapes Champions.
Frequent rejection and a loss of control are making university staff isolated and ill, new research shows
Despite repeatedly expressing public support for children’s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants’ effects on child development.
Former EuroScience Secretary General Peter Tindemans, argues that it is good news that the European Parliament and European Council have reached a partial agreement on the contours of Horizon Europe, the next EU R&D programme.
