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Scientific articles are retracted infrequently, yet have the potential to influence the scientific literature for years. The objective of this research was to determine the frequency and nature of citations of this retracted paper.
A quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Our study suggests that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality.
The paper develops a credit allocation algorithm that captures the coauthors’ contribution to a publication as perceived by the scientific community.
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The leaky pipeline metaphor partially explains historical gender differences in the U.S., but no longer describes current gender differences in the bachelor’s to Ph.D. transition in STEM.
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The new version of the website "hochschulwatch.de" shows that there are about 1,000 private chairs alone in Germany. In addition, over 10,000 collaboration between industry and universities were collected.
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
A survey finds that 87% of scientists agree with the statement “Scientists should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.
Last week the Citizen Science Association held its first conference ever, with 600 people attending from 25 countries.
A startup accelerator called "Scholas.Labs" was announced during an education event hosted by Pope Francis.
Corruption is a barrier to innovation. Greater scrutiny of public spending is needed if science and technology are to fulfil their potential.
Professors issue warning over obsession with performance management and research excellence.
An interview with John Ioannidis, co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Real scientific controversies are self-correcting shows the BICEP2 and Planck example.
The ‘no costs’ fallacy is based on the idea that for a commercial publisher, manuscripts are free, peer review is free, editorial boards are free, and electronic dissemination is free.
The PDF makes reading science research even more difficult and prevents a two-way conversation from taking place.
An analysis linking the number of researchers in a lab to productivity spurs online debate.
Quality control in science journals is evolving, with a code of ethics in hot pursuit.
Reproducibility alone is insufficient to address the replication crisis because even a reproducible analysis can suffer from many problems that threaten the validity and useful interpretation of the results.
FundRef provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research.
How scientists can use Twitter to expand their social contacts and find jobs.
A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.
NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.
Male professors are brilliant, awesome and knowledgeable. Women are bossy and annoying, and beautiful or ugly. These are a few of the results from a new interactive chart that was gaining notice on social media.
The European Commission says its outside experts have agreed there must be more integration, better infrastructure and an emphasis on concrete results.
A new JAMA study found the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is silent on matters of scientific misconduct and fraud.
Surveys find broad support for government to spend money on science, but that doesn’t mean the public supports the conclusions that scientists draw.
