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The American Physical Society held its massive April Meeting online because of coronavirus - and registrations soared.
Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity.
For Elizabeth Gadd, the Covid-19 pandemic makes it clear that long standing issues with academic publications need to be addressed quickly and definitively.
A public forum for researchers to discuss the science of science, current events, and science policy issues.
Many initiatives are keeping track of research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses. These initiatives, while valuable because they allow for fast access to relevant research, pose the question of subject delineation. We analyse here one such initiative, the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19).
The study replicates the NIPS experiment of 2014, showing that the ratings of peer review are not robust, and that altering reviewers leads to a dramatic impact on the ranking of the papers. This paper also shows that innovative works are not highly ranked in the existing peer review process, and in consequence are often rejected.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is frustrated whenever the coronavirus crisis is referred to by the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare catastrophe.
Researchers believe they could pre-emptively create vaccines and drugs to fight a wide range of viral threats - if they can get sufficient funding.
Atma Ivancevic shares what keeps her passionate about science when academic work gets tough, and while working from home.
Herd immunity hopes dealt blow by report suggesting only 2%-3% of people have been infected
The world is experiencing a major pandemic with a high mor-tality. One can hope that the outbreak will end spontaneously aftermost people are infected, but the SARS-2 coronavirus may becomeendemic and continue to cause cycles of respiratory disease andfatal pneumonias.
Far more people have died over the past month than have been officially reported, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows.
What does it mean for science - and public health - that scientific journals are now publishing research at warp speed?
Anders Tegnell talks to Nature about the nation's 'trust-based' approach to tackling the pandemic.
Secure contact tracing could be a powerful tool to fight the spread of COVID-19. A unique, decentralized system developed as part of an international consortium, including EPFL and ETH Zurich, will soon be launched with the support of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health is hosting a free webinar for researchers to learn how to share, discover, and cite COVID-19 data and code in generalist repositories on April 24 from 2-3:45 p.m. ET.
Magical thinking hampered the ability of even some of the most seasoned infectious diseases experts to recognize the full threat.
The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness.
Research shows almost 80% of deaths across four countries were in most polluted regions.
How can qualitative researchers collect data during social-distancing measures?
Do students really need a four-year residential experience?
To create a better post-COVID-19 world requires democratic civic universities dedicated to producing knowledge and educating ethical, empathetic stude...
Andy Westwood sets out the not-insignificant challenges that the government now faces in deciding what it wants from universities after the pandemic.
As lockdowns force scientists worldwide to put their research on hold, funders are introducing measures to minimize stress.
I'm curious what lockdown will reveal about the 'maternal wall' that can block faculty advancement.
