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What is Research Misconduct? European Countries Can't Agree
An analysis of 32 countries finds differences between national guidance and Europe-wide code.
Unexplainable: A New Podcast About the Most Fascinating Unanswered Questions in Science
Unexplainable: A New Podcast About the Most Fascinating Unanswered Questions in Science
What we don't know is awesome. Let us explain.
OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings
From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organisations undertook a large-scale study on open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as "OA diamond journals". This study was commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding of the OA diamond landscape.
Search Scholarly Materials Preserved in the Internet Archive
Looking for a research paper but can't find a copy in your library's catalog or popular search engines? Give Internet Archive Scholar a try! We might have a PDF from a "vanished" Open Access publisher in our web archive, an author's pre-publication manuscript from their archived faculty webpage.
ISSI Paper of the Year Award
The International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) is an international association of scholars and professionals active in the interdisciplinary study science of science, science communication, and science policy.
What I Learnt from 700 E-mail Applications
This author weathered repeated rejections, but constructive feedback helped him to find ways to stand out from the crowd.
Elsevier Journals Ask Retraction Watch to Review COVID-19 Papers
At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.
Lesser-Known Privileges of Academic Rank
Congratulations on the successful defense of your dissertation. This is a significant accomplishment, and you should have the opportunity to savor ...
Study: Employment Rose Among Those in Free Money Experiment
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression.
The Differences Between the Vaccines Matter
Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they're not all the same.
Quantitative Quality: a Study on How Performance-based Measures May Change the Publication Patterns of Danish Researchers
Quantitative Quality: a Study on How Performance-based Measures May Change the Publication Patterns of Danish Researchers
Nations the world over are increasingly turning to quantitative performance-based metrics to evaluate the quality of research outputs, as these metrics are abundant and provide an easy measure of ranking research. In 2010, the Danish Ministry of Science and Higher Education followed this trend and began portioning out a percentage of the available research funding according to how many research outputs each Danish university produces. Not all research outputs are eligible: only those published in a curated list of academic journals and publishers, the so-called BFI list, are included. The BFI list is ranked, which may create incentives for academic authors to target certain publication outlets or publication types over others. In this study we examine the potential effect these relatively new research evaluation methods have had on the publication patterns of researchers in Denmark. The study finds that publication behaviors in the Natural Sciences & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have changed, while the Health Sciences appear unaffected. Researchers in Natural Sciences & Technology appear to focus on high impact journals that reap more BFI points. While researchers in SSH have also increased their focus on the impact of the publication outlet, they also appear to have altered their preferred publication types, publishing more journal articles in the Social Sciences and more anthologies in the Humanities.
The Imaginary Carrot: No Correlation Between Raising Funds and Research Productivity in Geosciences
The Imaginary Carrot: No Correlation Between Raising Funds and Research Productivity in Geosciences
The ability of researchers to raise funding is central to academic achievement. However, whether success in obtaining research funds correlates with the productivity, quality or impact of a researcher is debated. The study analyses 10 years of grant funding by the Swiss National Science Foundation in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Polystyrene to Be Phased out Next Year Under Australia's Plastic Waste Plan
Polystyrene to Be Phased out Next Year Under Australia's Plastic Waste Plan
Conservation groups welcome aspects of the largely voluntary packaging and recycling targets but warn regulation will be necessary.
Butterfly Numbers Plummeting in US West As Climate Crisis Takes Toll
Butterfly Numbers Plummeting in US West As Climate Crisis Takes Toll
The total number of butterflies west of the Rockies has fallen 1.6% a year since 1977, a study finds: "You extrapolate it and it's crazy."
Cuomo Aides Rewrote Nursing Home Report to Hide Higher Death Toll
The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.
Fear of Missing out Boosting Global Acceptance of Covid Jab, Survey Suggests
International study finds change in attitudes possibly driven by anticipated regret of not having vaccine.
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
"It almost seems like a magical thing," said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.
SNSF Career Tracker Cohorts (CTC) - Newsletter 2021/1
SNSF Career Tracker Cohorts (CTC) - Newsletter 2021/1
This newsletter takes a closer look at the effect of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among the participants of the CTC surveys in fall 2020.
COVID is Amplifying the Inadequacy of Research-Evaluation Processes
COVID is Amplifying the Inadequacy of Research-Evaluation Processes
Systems for assessing scientists' work must properly account for a lost year of research - especially for female researchers.
The Changing Role of Funders in Responsible Research Assessment: Progress, Obstacles and the Way Ahead
The Changing Role of Funders in Responsible Research Assessment: Progress, Obstacles and the Way Ahead
A responsible research assessment would incentivise, reflect and reward the plural characteristics of high-quality research, in support of diverse and inclusive research cultures.
Mapping Government-Academic Engagement Initiatives Internationally
We are exploring forms of engagement between academic research and governments: what has been tried, by whom, to what effect, and using which mechanisms.
International Megatrial of Coronavirus Treatments is at a Standstill
Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test.
Watch the Winners of This Year's "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest
Watch the Winners of This Year's "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest
The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. The competition got a new COVID-19 category this year.
2021 Call for application (Doc, Postdoc in France)
Find out more about the current edition of the French national program.
Plan S Impact Survey
cOAlition S values the opinion of all researchers. We want to understand if and how Plan S affects your publishing practices and your views on Open Access.
New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters
M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.