Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
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Discrete Analysis
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.
arXiv.org will use ORCID identifiers
arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.
The self-fulfilling prophecy of fear of academic failure
Academic success in Higher Education is influenced by a number of different factors. This paper tackles the question if the individual levels of motivation, anxiety, enjoyment and self-efficacy, measured immediately before entering university, influence the probability of academic success. Former studies have shown an influence of the high school grade, the learning environment and motivational variables. They do not investigate, however, the individual levels of the mentioned constructs before the beginning of the studies. This research was conducted at the University of St. Gallen/Switzerland. The sample includes 695 first-year students who provided information about the individual level of the mentioned constructs.
The 12 hottest startups in Switzerland
We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.
The importance of research for the future of Europe
Moedas' speech at the opening of the academic year and the 375th Anniversary of Helsinki University.
My laboratory would fall apart if Britain left the EU
My team is drawn from all over Europe and beyond – the researchers bring in talent, income and dedication.
Psychology Is Not in Crisis
Failure to replicate is not a bug; it is a feature. It is what leads us along the path of scientific discovery.
Institutions must do their part for reproducibility
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
Why we need to rank by innovation
University league tables do not pay enough attention to institutions’ innovative spirit, argues the European Commission’s Gerard de Graaf.
Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
Pay academics bonuses to boost productivity, study suggests
Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
What ETH Zurich paid to Elsevier, Springer and Wiley
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
A new journal wants to publish your research ideas
The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
How methods videos are making science smarter
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
Is mass authorship destroying the credibility of papers?
The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications.
Papers with shorter titles get more citations
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
Men are more likely than women to engage in self-citation
[11]A new study found that 31% of men engage in self-citation, compared to only 21% of women.
Biohackers gear up for genome editing
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
No substitute for good research management
You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe.
The question of data integrity in Article-Level Metrics
As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.
SciCombinator
Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.
What is the one fact humanity needs to know?
What is the one fact humanity needs to know?
“If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?”
Jump paywalls, score academic research for free, share it without being busted
Jump paywalls, score academic research for free, share it without being busted
At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.
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