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When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.
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Publons Academy
Publons Academy
A practical pathway to becoming an expert reviewer.
California Rules U.S. Corporate Research
Every state wants to be home to the next Google or Facebook. But it’s no coincidence that those companies are located in California. The latest data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that three of every 10 corporate research dollars are now spent in California.
Publish or Perish Thwarts Young Researchers’ Urge to Innovate
An unbending reward system prevents early-career researchers taking full advantage of the digital world.
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
Anti-globalization Rhetoric Threatens Scientific and Technological Progress
The U.S. depends on international collaborations and immigrants to solve domestic and global problems.
Decrees Threaten Turkish Universities' Autonomy
Erdogan, has taken direct control of the appointment of university rectors and a further 1,267 academics have been dismissed.
Tough Crowd
Tough Crowd
Reviewers who are experts in a given field are more likely to deliver harsher critiques of papers that hit close to home, researchers report.
Tested, and Found Wanting
Tested, and Found Wanting
Half of clinical trials do not have their results published. Those behind the TrialsTracker, a web tool created by the Evidence-Based Medicine Data Lab, at Oxford University, hope to change this.
How Scientists Are Fighting Bias In Research By Writing Down Their Theories In Advance
How Scientists Are Fighting Bias In Research By Writing Down Their Theories In Advance
Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.
What Makes a Great Peer Reviewer?
What Makes a Great Peer Reviewer?
Tips from Nature Research editors.
Turkish Government Tightens Grip on Universities
More than 1000 academics fired.
Machine-learning Algorithm Quantifies Gender Bias in Astronomy
Calculation suggests papers with women first-authors have citation rates pushed down by 10%.
Rosalind’s Ghost: Biology, Collaboration, and the Female
Women are still underrepresented in terms of authorships, including first and/or last authorships (whichever is more prestigious), coauthorships, and in the granting of scientific prizes.
Why Are There So Few Women Mathematicians?
How a corrosive culture keeps women out of leadership positions on math journals
Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender
Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender
An empirical analysis of researchers’ publications reveals that females have fewer distinct coauthors yet have a lower chance of repeating previous coauthors than their male counterparts.
TrialsTracker
A tool was produced that identifies all completed trials from clinicaltrials.gov, searches for results in the clinicaltrials.gov registry and on PubMed, and presents summary statistics for each sponsor online. Since Jan 2006, trial sponsors included in our dataset have completed 25,927 eligible trials, of which 11,714 (45.2%) have failed to make results available.
Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age
New equation also suggests way to predict a researcher's potential to produce top work.
Finding Your Way to Satisfying Work
A recently published book offers guidance for scientists’ career planning.
'Any Idiot Can Do It.'
Genome editor CRISPR could put mutant mice in everyone's reach
Hey Scientists, How Much of Your Publication Success is Due to Dumb Luck?
Papers are like “lottery tickets,” researchers conclude
Tracker Flags Up Failures to Report Clinical Trials
Computerized search of trial registry lists worst offenders.
See How the Most Influential Science Comes in Waves
Science says career success is random. Here's what that looks like.
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