Management 101 for Scientists – Three Rules for Managing a Successful Team
Good management can make an enormous difference in the success and productivity of any team.
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Don’t Blame Open Science for Scooping
Open science is becoming more and more prevalent. Critics, however, think this approach makes it easier to steal somebody else’s ideas.
On Inequality and Academic Publishing
A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.
Improving the Measurement of Scientific Success by Reporting a Self-Citation Index
Improving the Measurement of Scientific Success by Reporting a Self-Citation Index
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
Shanghai Ranking 2017
New 2017 Top 500 world university rankings conducted by CWCU of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Academic Ranking of World Universities).
We Need a Replacement for Beall’s List
Although the popular blacklist of predatory publishers is gone, the suspect journals they produce are not.
China’s Embrace of Embryo Selection Raises Thorny Questions
Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.
New Study Highlights Strong Link Between Basic Research And Inventions
A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected.
Scholarly Communications Shouldn't Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too
The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
Phone Scammers Now Pushing Fake Government Grants
Not content with impersonating IRS agents, phone scammers now are pretending to work for the NIH, telling victims that they’ve won a grant but must pay a fee in order to get the money.
Towards Sustainable Funding for Open Access
In the quest to make scientific publications free to read and free to publish, the million-dollar question is: how can it be sustainable?
Thesis Commons: an Open-source Platform for Theses and Dissertations
The Center for Open Science launches Thesis Commons, a free, cloud-based, open-source platform for the submission, dissemination, and discovery of graduate and undergraduate theses and dissertations from any discipline.
5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review
5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review
We’re celebrating post-publication reviewers this Peer Review Week - find out why, and learn tips on how to write a winning review
How to Share Data for Collaboration
Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.
New FDA Security Rules Will Bar Agency from Hiring Some Foreign Nationals
FDA says new security policy could bar hiring of about 50 foreign nationals per year
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.
We've Studied Gender and STEM for 25 Years. The Science Doesn't Support the Google Memo.
We've Studied Gender and STEM for 25 Years. The Science Doesn't Support the Google Memo.
These are some issues that males simply do not have to face. The "anxiety gap" exists for a reason, and it is not about biology.
Cash Bonuses for Peer-Reviewed Papers Go Global
China's rewards are richest, but many nations now offer incentives for publishing in top journals.
How Are Topics Born?
Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas.
Egyptian Researchers Rally Around Science Advocate
Ismail Serageldin, founding director of the Library of Alexandria, has appealed a 3.5-year prison term
"I'm a Woman in Computer Science. Let me Ladysplain the Google Memo to You."
Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Increasingly Collaborative Researcher Behaviour Is the Real Threat to the Resilient Academic Publishing Sector
Greater collaboration leading to the growing informal use and exchange of free material between researchers.
Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
Researchers planted a working hacker "exploit" in a physical strand of DNA.
Here's How Scientists Used DNA to Launch a Computer Attack
Malware can be encoded into a gene and used to take over a computer program.
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