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The UK has gained a new science minister as part of a broader reshuffle of government posts. Sam Gyimah, who moves from the Ministry of Justice, was appointed minister for universities and science on 9 January, replacing Jo Johnson.
Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.
The reporting of clinical trial results to a public database has improved sharply in the last two years, with universities and other nonprofit research centers leading the way.
An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
It’s easier than ever to learn how to produce captivating clips that can boost your scientific outreach - or open the door to a new job.
On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.
US male PhD holders earn more than female counterparts across nearly every scientific field.
Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.
A dispute between Australia’s major research funding agencies and universities over the definition of research misconduct has revealed global inconsistencies in the way misconduct is defined and regulated, as well as its ambiguous legal status.
Six drug firms are paying to sequence the genes of every volunteer in the UK Biobank.
German universities demand open access and fair pricing from academic publishing house Elsevier.
Research impact is often talked about, but how clear is it what this term really means? The authors highlight four core elements that comprise most research impact definitions and propose a new conceptualisation of research impact relevant to health policy.
Elsevier is often thought to be the enemy of academic libraries, but in fact its practices improve libraries and lower costs.
There is a serious lack in sharing material/resources that are used to creating the building-blocks of a research experiment.
They may be too humble to call themselves heroes, but there's no better way to describe them according to Bill Gates.
An EU-funded platform is helping to generate answers from known cases by enabling scientists to pool and compare genomic and clinical data.
Article documenting increases in research output quantity - accompanied by decreases in quality - near the time of government-set deadlines for university evaluations.
News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research.
9 productivity tips and tricks for tackling to-do lists as a researcher.
In a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Salk Institute, a female scientist alleges that biologist Inder Verma was dismissive of his female colleagues.
The Neuroskeptic commentary on a new paper by Chris Drummond about the ‘reproducibility movement’. Assuming that what really matters is the testability of a given hypothesis, how fundamental is reproducibility to science?
Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia.
PhD candidate Samantha Yammine is trying to break the stereotype that Scientists are cold, boring and out of touch with the hashtag #ScientistsWhoSelfie.
More than just an academic problem: on the repercussions of scienctific misconduct on the careers of honest and hard-working scientists.
Information for researchers who are interested in adopting an Electronic Lab Notebook system for documenting research and managing data.
Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.
