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This author weathered repeated rejections, but constructive feedback helped him to find ways to stand out from the crowd.
At the risk of breaking the Fourth Wall, here's a story about peer reviews that weren't - and shouldn't have been.
Congratulations on the successful defense of your dissertation. This is a significant accomplishment, and you should have the opportunity to savor ...
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.
Yes, all of the COVID-19 vaccines are very good. No, they're not all the same.
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 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.
Conservation groups welcome aspects of the largely voluntary packaging and recycling targets but warn regulation will be necessary.
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."
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.
We've discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually.
International study finds change in attitudes possibly driven by anticipated regret of not having vaccine.
"It almost seems like a magical thing," said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.
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.
Systems for assessing scientists' work must properly account for a lost year of research - especially for female researchers.
A responsible research assessment would incentivise, reflect and reward the plural characteristics of high-quality research, in support of diverse and inclusive research cultures.
We are exploring forms of engagement between academic research and governments: what has been tried, by whom, to what effect, and using which mechanisms.
Effort found four drugs had little benefit, now on hold until new drugs are chosen to test.
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.
Find out more about the current edition of the French national program.
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.
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.
UK researchers find link between regular meat intake and nine non-cancerous illnesses.
Not one Covid jab had been administered in 130 of the world's poorer countries by mid-February, says the Guardian editor, author and presenter Kanishk Tharoor.
B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what's the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?
Tempted to try your hand at a new technique? These tools will help you on your way.
Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs.
