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We need more transparency in how scientific knowledge is created and communicated, especially in the context of a pandemic where science should guide important decisions affecting millions of people.
This study examines the composition of academics’ networks at different points in their career and discuss the role of transnational ties within them.
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.
The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), initiated in 2009, is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project that runs on open-source software. It captures news and comment on open access (OA) to research in every academic field and region of the world.
Cambridge University study also suggests older people less likely to believe coronavirus misinformation.
This chart shows which countries are making progress to end the pandemic everywhere and which are not.
Kirstie Whitaker and Olivia Guest ask how open ‘open science’ really is.
A case in Nevada has spurred new concerns that people who have recovered from the infection may still be vulnerable. That's unlikely, experts say.
Let's start all over again about face masks. The noise about them is a Judas Priest blare. Can we turn down the volume for a moment?
Scientists identify a species that appears to absorb potentially lethal UV radiation and emit blue light.
Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.
A camera-trap image of an Amur tiger takes the grand prize at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020.
Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.
Publishers agree to make journal summaries open and searchable in single repository.
The international Wikimedia movement, best known for its community-based online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, marked its 15th anniversary by setting its sights on the year 2030 and defined strategies, values and goals in an open process. Wikimedia Germany’s Nicole Ebber and Holger Plickert have answered some questions about the transformation, how Wikimedia wants to become the largest knowledge infrastructure in the world and what connections they see to libraries.
Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles coming down from God." If that's true, then God employs cell lines derived from human fetal tissue.
Beijing joins initiative against 'vaccine nationalism' in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance.
COVID-19 has highlighted the need to work with researchers all around the world at the same time that it has also exposed the inequalities in the global research and knowledge system.
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel today welcomes seven experts as members of the Search Committee for the next President of the ERC.
In academia, decisions on promotions are influenced by the citation impact of the works published by the candidates. The authors examine whether the journal impact factor rank could be replaced with the relative citation ratio, an article-level measure of citation impact developed by the National Institutes of Health.
