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Science Has More Impact When Researchers Travel, Collaborate

Science Has More Impact When Researchers Travel, Collaborate

If nations and their research institutions are to produce more impactful science, they need to encourage scientists to travel, collaborate and work across borders.

How the News Media Activate Public Expression and Influence National Agendas

How the News Media Activate Public Expression and Influence National Agendas

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.

The Catalogue That Made Metrics, and Changed Science

The Catalogue That Made Metrics, and Changed Science

As new ways emerge to assess research, Alex Csiszar recalls how the first one transformed the practice and place of science in society.

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

A New ‘Accelerator’ Aims to Bring Big Science to Psychology

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."

World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias

World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias

ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.

Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning

Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning

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.

17 Researchers Resign in Protest from Editorial Board at Nature Journal

17 Researchers Resign in Protest from Editorial Board at Nature Journal

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.

FP9 Is Missing UK Input, Says Royal Society President

FP9 Is Missing UK Input, Says Royal Society President

Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.

Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus

Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus

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.

"Who owns Digital Science" – That is the Question…

"Who owns Digital Science" – That is the Question…

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 Journal Is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

A Journal Is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

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.