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Female Authors Get Fewer Citations in Astronomy
Papers with female first authors receive 10% fewer citations than comparable work published by men, according to a new study
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields – but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
The Future Of Libraries Is Collaborative, Robotic, And Participatory
Libraries can survive these times of technological upheaval, but they’re going to have to change–and fast.
Software Simplified
Containerization technology takes the hassle out of setting up software and can boost the reproducibility of data-driven research.
5th World Conference on Research Integrity
May 28-31, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering
They act as a “social vaccine” that protects female students against negative stereotypes and gives them a sense of belonging.
Unattractive People Are Seen As Better Scientists
Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
Research institutions should have regular open conversations on authorship criteria and ethics and that funding agencies adopt ORCID and accept CRediT.
Who Should Speak for Academics over the Future of Publishing?
Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe
Academics ‘Should Not Sign Over Research Copyright to Publishers’
Report urges academy to ‘embrace’ opportunities for wider research dissemination
Science, Engineering, and Health Doctorates in the Workforce
Exploring the diverse pathways traveled by science, engineering, and health doctorates as they progress through their careers.
Monument to Peer Review Unveiled in Moscow
Cornerstone of modern science immortalized in concrete.
Research Articles Must Be Openly Available
The Research Council of Norway is giving universities and university colleges a six-month deadline to upload articles stemming from Council-funded projects to open repositories.
Untangling Academic Publishing
A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research.
Keeping a Lid on Open Science
Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.
Trump’s Budget Forgets That Science Is Insurance for America
The President's proposed budget guts scientific research and protection, because it either doesn't know what science is for, or doesn't care.
Is the Nature Index at Odds with DORA?
We find Nature Research's critical attitude towards journal impact factors, embodied in its signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA; Nature 544, 394; 2017), to be inconsistent with the aims of its Nature Index.
Re-Envisioning a Future in Scholarly Communication
The scholarly process is ridden with single points of failures at all stages.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Reproducible Research, Just Not Reproducible By You
What happens when an experiment is correct, but it's really hard to replicate? Are there research results that are accurate but not reproducible?
Science's Quality-Control System under Attack
Lengthy publication delays, theft of rivals’ research, allegations of shoddy reviewing, and even the faking of reviews are raising new questions about a decades-old scientific tradition
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