Percentage-Based Author Contribution Index
An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.
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An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.
If nations and their research institutions are to produce more impactful science, they need to encourage scientists to travel, collaborate and work across borders.
Unusual experiment reveals that news stories can boost national policy discussion on social media.
The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.
Psychology initiative aims to engage dozens of laboratories around the world in large-scale studies, since the “tentative, preliminary results” produced by small studies conducted in relatively isolated laboratories “just aren’t getting the job done."
Scholars are planning an alternative site on which to network and share work.
Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.
Leading Swedish research funder joins nonprofit coalition committing about £2.72 mio. to eLife for a 4-year period beginning in 2018.
When women are unleashed on the tech world, new ways of living and doing business reveal themselves.
Patrick Vallance to take over from interim government adviser Chris Whitty from March next year.
ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.
The number of women in scientific research continues to lag behind the number of men, even though women make up half the nation's workforce. The question is, What difference does it make?
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
This week, we received a press release that caught our attention: A company is releasing software it claims will write manuscripts using researchers’ data.
Perverse incentives and the misuse of quantitative metrics have undermined the integrity of scientific research.
A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.
More than a dozen members of the editorial board at Scientific Reports have resigned after the journal decided not to retract a 2016 paper that a researcher claims plagiarized his work. As of this morning, 19 people — mostly researchers based at Johns Hopkins — had stepped down from the board.
Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than their female peers, even within the same institution. The majors drivers of that gap remain unclear, but one factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.
Digital Science continued independence is the best way to have the biggest impact in supporting research, researchers, publishers, funders and research institutions around the world.
A survey on open access books, revealed that of the 99 authors, 55.5% self-archived their chapters.
While part of the original motivation of the first research publication in serial form — the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 — was to make money, the early history of scholarly publishing is largely one of community subsidy to cover losses or breaking even.
How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? A white paper by Springer Nature.