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French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
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Corporate Culture Spreads to Scandinavian Institutes
The trend of turning universities into businesses is limiting research freedoms in traditionally liberal institutes in northern Europe.
21st Century Cures Act Now Law
Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.
Moneyball for Professors?
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
The Proof of the Pudding: University Responses to The European Research Council
Author-Initiated Peer Review of Manuscripts
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
How Long Do Top Scientists Maintain Their Stardom?
Research performance of all Italian professors in the sciences over three consecutive four-year periods.
A New Impact Factor in the New Publication Landscape
The measurement of Impact Factor – how many citations a publication or a researcher is able to attract, is one of the most controversial yet most widely used quality indicators in science.
The 21st Century Cures Act — A View from the NIH
A perspective by Kathy L. Hudson and Francis S. Collins on the 21st Century Cures Act.
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016
All the videos and slides from #scidata16.
The Journal Impact Factor Should Not Be Discarded
The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) has been heavily criticized over decades. This opinion piece argues that the JIF should not be demonized. It still can be employed for research evaluation purposes by carefully considering the context and academic environment.
No Full-Text Access to Elsevier Journals to Be Expected from 1 January 2017
No Full-Text Access to Elsevier Journals to Be Expected from 1 January 2017
More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.
Best Universities in the World for Learning to Code
A worldwide coding competition reveals the universities producing the very best coders.
A Blueprint for Getting More Women into Information Technology
How to address high tech’s missing XX factor
SciLite
A platform for displaying text-mined annotations as a means to link research articles with biological data
Simply Studying Populism Is No Longer Enough
Sociologist Matthijs Rooduijn explains why the darkening political mood must force academics to step up and choose sides.
CiteScore–Flawed But Still A Game Changer
The real innovation of CiteScore is not another performance metric, but a new marketing model focused on editors.
Letting Researchers Choose Their Peer Reviewers Gets Another Shot
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
Million-dollar babies
Million-dollar babies
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars
NIH Director Francis Collins Says he Would Remain in Post Under Trump
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said Friday that it would be a "privilege" to remain in that post if asked to stay by President-elect Donald Trump.
Peer Review Post-mortem: How a Flawed Aging Study was Published in Nature
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
Favourite Reads of 2016 as Chosen by Scientists
Writers from the Guardian’s science blog network pick out the books from across the cultural spectrum that delighted them most this year
I Made My Grant Application Public
If funding applications were made under open access, science would benefit from more universal scrutiny.
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