Watch out for cheats in citation game
The focus on impact of published research has created new opportunities for misconduct and fraudsters, says Mario Biagioli.
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US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
In this Special Communication, President Barack Obama reviews the Affordable Care Act: why he pursued it, what it has effected, and how the health care system can still be improved.
Keep it moving
A postdoc job is good for your career, but don't get stuck in an academic cul-de-sac, says Søren-Peter Olesen.
Canada's health funder agrees to meet with researchers outraged by peer-review changes
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a 1960s time capsule
Many of the comments in the Apollo Guidance Computer code go beyond boring explanations of the software itself. They’re full of light-hearted jokes and messages, and very 1960s references.
We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets
If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear.
The big health data sale
As the trade of personal health and medical data expands, it becomes necessary to improve legal frameworks for protecting patient anonymity, handling consent and ensuring the quality of data
ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites
The goal being to avoid contributing further to the inappropriate focus on journal IFs.
Medicine’s next step
As science and technology have advanced, it’s become possible to make it personalized as well, giving us the tools to better understand, prevent, and treat everyone’s individual health needs, writes Obama.
The communities of Science
"Science is, indeed, a profoundly social activity": Jeremy Berg's first Science editorial
A Practical Guide for Improving Transparency and Reproducibility in Neuroimaging Research
A Practical Guide for Improving Transparency and Reproducibility in Neuroimaging Research
This guide covers three major topics in open science (data, code, and publications) and offers practical advice as well as highlighting advantages of adopting more open research practices.
How open science helps researchers succeed
A literature review demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities, and funding opportunities.
How scientific culture discourages new ideas
Recent studies highlight why policy changes are needed to make science more receptive to novelty, our columnist writes.
Making Science-Based Policy Decisions
Resources for the Educational Modules of Professional School Students
Beat it, impact factor! Publishing elite turns against controversial metric
Senior staff at Nature, Science and other journals want to end inappropriate use of the measure.
What’s the point of the PhD thesis?
Doctoral courses are slowly being modernized. Now the thesis and viva need to catch up.
Obama’s top scientist talks shrinking budgets, Donald Trump, and his biggest regret
Life's arrow: the Epistemic Singularity
For centuries people have been asking, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Science has not been able to give us an answer so far. We still have to live with the basic statement that “Everything that is is, and it is as long as it keeps its identity, that is, its onticity”, which we may call the “Strong Ontic Principle”.
Back to the thesis
Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
A possible replacement for the Journal Impact Factor.
U.K. research charity will self-publish results from its grantees
Wellcome Trust looks to save money and time communicating the research it funds.
NIH awards $55 million to build million-person precision medicine study
Launch expected later this year.
Hate journal impact factors? New study gives you one more reason
Analysis finds citation rankings can be very misleading.
Let’s make peer review scientific
Let’s make peer review scientific
Thirty years on from the first congress on peer review, Drummond Rennie reflects on the improvements brought about by research into the process — and calls for more.
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