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A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.
The Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Learned Society of Wales, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy have published a statement on research and innovation after the EU Referendum.
The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.
Recall of those studying abroad is latest step after forced resignations and firings.
Thomson Reuters claims it has “never advocated” the use of the impact factor for the “analysis of individual research artefacts or people”.
The pilot focuses on replicating studies that have a large impact on science, government policy or the public debate.
Scientific awards, medals and prizes awarded by the Royal Society in 2016.
Aging of the NIH-funded independent investigator workforce is an accumulation of multiple factors including a shift in perceptions, expectations, and the general structure of the extramural workforce, as well as global macroeconomic factors.
Suggestions of how to get started, in seeking to adopt a reproducible workflow for one's computational research.
Competition leads to more innovation but also to more unfair reviews and to a lower level of agreement between reviewers. Moreover, competition does not improve the average quality of published works.
Beate El-Chichakli and colleagues outline principles for coordinating bio-based industries to achieve many of the sustainable development goals.
Race not gender appears to be the most significant factor influencing the award of a National Institutes of Health Research Project Grant, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas economist.
All software used for the analysis should be either carefully documented or, better yet, openly shared and directly accessible to others.
The impact factor is a poor measure of a journal's quality, and academics say it should either be overhauled or done away with entirely.
There is such a surplus of Ph.D.s that in the most popular fields, like biomedicine, fewer than one in six reach their goal in academia.
Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure
Crowdsourcing the analysis of complex and massive data has emerged as a framework to find robust methodologies. When the crowdsourcing is done in the form of collaborative scientific competitions, known as Challenges, the validation of the methods is inherently addressed.
In talking with some folks about mental health issues in academia, one thing that comes up is the idea that maybe people are better scientists because of those issues.
These are dark times for science so we asked hundreds of researchers how to fix it.
Researchers had rebelled against shift to online-only reviews.
How do you edit Barack Obama? The Chronicle spoke to the editor in chief of a journal that published the president’s article on the future of health-care reform on Monday.
Senior academic from the university embroiled in the ‘Climategate’ scandal warns how open data can be used irresponsibly to damage science.
