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Results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines will increase plasma neutralizing activity but may not produce antibodies with equivalent breadth to those obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals.
An inexpensive type of portable filter efficiently screened SARS-CoV-2 and other disease-causing organisms from hospital air.
Research and development are central to economic growth, and a key challenge for countries of the global South is that their research performance lags behind that of the global North. Yet, among Southern researchers, a few significantly outperform their peers and can be styled research "positive deviants" (PDs). This paper asks: who are those PDs, what are their characteristics and how are they able to overcome some of the challenges facing researchers in the global South?
One of the most fundamental issues in academia today is understanding the differences between legitimate and questionable publishing. This study's findings show that neither the impact factor of citing journals nor the size of cited journals is a good predictor of the number of citations to the questionable journals.
Benjamin List and David MacMillan share the award for developing cheap, environmentally friendly organic catalysts.
Scientists around the world are working together to catalogue and map cells in the brain. What have these huge projects revealed about how it works?
Collaborations between AI researchers and China's medical workers are helping to combat diseases such as diabetes and COVID-19.
What do we really know about the linkages between good metadata and positive, productive user experiences with scholarly journals?
International agencies need the mandate, funds and expertise to connect information - otherwise pandemics, hunger and unsustainability will go unsolved.
Sixteen research and higher education organisations have written an open letter calling on the European Commission to allow them to appoint representatives to the European Research Area (ERA) forum, the body that will establish the governance and policy agenda of the EU's revamped single market for research.
When two junior researchers joined a search committee, they came up with a way to put equity and inclusion centre stage.
The Swiss parliament has agreed to pay overdue cohesion funds stretching back to 2012 - but this only removes one hurdle to reviving Horizon Europe association talks.
The University of Zurich has just taken a big step forward on the open science path.
The high cost of studying deep-sea ecosystems means that many scientists have to rely on funding by mining companies - which poses an ethical hazard.
The question of whether and to what extent research funding enables researchers to be more productive is a crucial one. In their recent work, Mariethoz et al. (Scientometrics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03.855-1 ) claim that there is no significant relationship between project-based research funding and bibliometric productivity measures and conclude that this is the result of inappropriate allocation mechanisms. In this rejoinder, we argue that such claims are not supported by the data and analyses reported in the article.
Young international researchers call for more funding and diversity in science communication.
A mid-20th-century computer experiment created a new field of science—and programmer Mary Tsingou Menzel is finally being given credit for her role in making it happen
Cartoon by Hilda Bastian (license) A total of 436 papers in two Springer Nature journals are being subjected to expressions of concern, in the latest case of special issues - in this case, "t…
The pandemic has made it clear that science touches everything, and everything touches science.
As part of a misconduct crackdown, Chinese funders are penalizing researchers who commission sham journal articles from 'paper mills', but some say the measures still don't go far enough.
The government's decision to ease requirements will lower the cost of field trials, but does not yet address the path to market.
For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.
Today features an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, editor of the new book Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.
