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The US military agency is worried the country could lose its edge in semiconductor chips with the end of Moore’s Law.
Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.
Virtual peer review using videoconferencing or teleconferencing appears promising for reducing costs by avoiding the need for reviewers to travel, but again any consequences for quality have not been adequately assessed.
We present an agent-based model of paper publication and consumption that allows to study the effect of two different evaluation mechanisms, peer review and reputation, on the quality of the manuscripts accessed by a scientific community.
Even after reading every single related news article, it is still worth reading the 300-plus page National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on Sexual Harassment in its entirety. The report lays out why academia is fundamentally broken and incapable of dealing with harassment.
Social media can promote openness in research as international partnerships and collaborations are jeopardised, while increased adoption by scientists can also redress the balance that has shifted towards ill-evidenced news on some platforms.
What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?
The potential of preprints to drive scientific understanding and innovation, and even support good journalism.
What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?
The nonprofit's Summer Immersion Program aims to catch girls before their interest in computer science plummets.
We need to start talking about what kind of planet we want to live on.
After much investigation and active measures, we can state that the DOAJ is effectively under attack from an unknown third party.
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute.
University manipulated test scores for more than a decade to ensure more men became doctors.
In a slightly depressing new paper, researchers describe how they tried to get access to the data behind 111 of the most cited psychology and psychiatry papers published in the past decade. Only 14% of the datasets were made available with no restrictions on who could access them.
I want to see whether the wisdom of crowds does a better job than conventional grant review at supporting research, says Johan Bollen.
Students from Saudi Arabia studying Canada are have been ordered by their government to leave the country in the middle of their courses.
Withdrawal is ordered as part of larger diplomatic spat over Canadian criticism of Saudi arrests of human rights activists.
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed - and what hasn’t.
Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms - even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers or scientists.
Smaller countries rely more on regional collaborations than on domestic interaction.
A fresh, practical look at how diversity impacts on engineering and strategies for change.
Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.
In this controversial opinion piece, German science expert Stefan Hornbostel argues that some transparency is good for science - but too much can backfire, reducing the efficiency and quality of research and eroding public trust.
Thanks to a major new international research study, it's no longer possible to pretend that predatory journals are not a serious problem that needs serious attention.
