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With some 173,000 articles during the period 2011-2015, Switzerland produced 1% of worldwide publications. It is therefore in the top 20 countries of all sizes that publish the most scientific articles.
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the ScienceOpen discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the …
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
A study has revealed a high prevalence of inconsistencies in reported statistical test results. Such inconsistencies make results unreliable, as they become “irreproducible”, and ultimately affect the level of trust in scientific reporting.
The Open Philanthropy Project’s mission is to give as effectively as we can and share our findings openly so that anyone can build on our work. Through research and grantmaking, we hope to learn how to make philanthropy go especially far in terms of improving lives.
Canada's 2018 budget includes almost Can$4 billion (US$3.1 billion) in new funding for science over the next five years. This is in contrast to the Can$1 billion in new science funding contained in last year's budget - almost none of which went to basic research.
An inquiry into why research on the nature of dogs gets so much attention raises the question of whether there are actually more studies of dogs.
The present paper takes its place in the stream of studies that analyze the effect of interdisciplinarity on the impact of research output. Unlike previous studies, in this study the...
What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…
Lutz Jäncke and Lawrence Rajendran talk about the crisis in the publication process and new solutions.
Academia is unique in that professionals with highly specialized expertise, who are paid by public institutions, write articles and provide peer reviews to corporations who profit greatly without giving back to the research enterprise.
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazine Nature, has brought forward a listing which may value it at more than 7 billion euros ($8.6 billion) including debt, to reduce the risk from volatile stock markets.
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
While rates of productivity were broadly similar, citation rates were found to be higher for transdisciplinary students, as were indicators of collaboration such as co-authorship.
Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
Everyone who is interested in Open Science is invited to comment the first draft of an online handbook for Open Science trainers. The deadline for comments is 4 March 2018.
Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
Some scientists want to change the old-fashioned way scientific advancements are evaluated and communicated. But they have to overcome the power structure of the traditional journal vetting process.
