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How to Write a First-Class Paper
Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.
Open Philanthropy Project
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.
Canadian Science Wins Billions in New Budget
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.
Why Scientists Love to Study Dogs (and Often Ignore Cats)
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.
Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
Do Interdisciplinary Research Teams Deliver Higher Gains to Science?
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...
The UCUStrikes: a Battle for the Future of Higher Education
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…
Researchers Coy About Complete Review Transparency
Survey reveals reluctance to take open peer review to the limit.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
20 Years Ago, Research Fraud Catalyzed the Anti-Vaccination Movement. Let’s Not Repeat History.
How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
Read What You Are Looking For! ScienceOpen Integrates More Open Access Data
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 …
DMTPTool.org: An Online Data Management Plan Tool
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
Merkel Makes a Surprise Pick for German Research Minister
Anja Karliczek is little known in science policy circles.
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability
Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.
Statcheck - a Spellchecker for Statistics
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.
SpringerNature Hurries 7 Billion Euro Frankfurt Listing
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.
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
How Scihub Is at the Forefront of the Quest to Frame Scientific Knowledge as Public Good
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations
Transdisciplinary PhD Programmes Produce More High-Impact Publications and Foster Increased Collaborations
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.
Scientist Takes Her Sexual Harassment Findings to Congress
Kathryn Clancy has spent years studying how sexual harassment pervades science. This week, she’s taking those findings to Congress.
As a Saudi Woman Scientist, I'm Tired of Negative Stereotypes
I’ve encountered even more prejudice as a researcher from the Middle East than as a woman working in Saudi Arabia, says Malak Abedalthagafi.
"Publication Practice Has to Change"
Lutz Jäncke and Lawrence Rajendran talk about the crisis in the publication process and new solutions.
It's Time to Stand up to the Academic Publishing Industry: Here’s How
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.
Scientists Aim To Pull Peer Review Out Of The 17th Century
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.
Where Are We with Responsible Metrics? And Where Might We Go Next? Reflections from Two Recent Events
Open-Access Charges 'Create New Inequalities' in Publishing
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
Google's Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters
Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more accessible.
Comments Please! Open Science Training Handbook
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.
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