Publish and Be Praised: Impact Factor a Good Gauge of Quality
In some subjects, the impact factor of journal articles is as good a reflection of research quality as judgements by a panel of experts.
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ResearchGate and Springer Nature Plan Cooperation
ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.
G7 Science Ministers Endorse Open Science
Recommendations by G7 to rewarding and incentivize Open Science practices and infrastructures for optimal use of research data.
The Appropriation of GitHub for Curation
We describe curation projects as a new category of GitHub project that collects, evaluates, and preserves resources for software developers.
'Transformative' Research Unrealistic to Predict, Scientists Tell Granting Agencies
The Role of Ego in Academic Profile Services
Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.
Lazy Scholar
A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.
The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review
The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review
This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.
Scientists Plead With Brazilian Government to Restore Funding
If officials don't act soon, research institutions could start shutting down next year.
Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court
Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale.
The Scientist who Spots Fake Videos
Hany Farid discusses how to detect image manipulations — and the increasing sophistication of forgers.
Uganda Removes Key Hurdle to GM Crops
New law would allow commercial planting of transgenic varieties in Uganda.
Scientists Have Most Impact When They're Free to Move
An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R.
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.
Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick
An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Estimated Effects of Implementing an Open Access Policy for Grantees at a Private Foundation
Understanding the potential effects of requiring that grantees publish their peer-reviewed research in open access journals.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Ethics of Internet Research Trigger Scrutiny
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
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