Going for True Gold
Why the Norwegian Research Council is taking a stand against hybrid Open Access journals.
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Anne Glover on Brussels
Anne Glover, former chief scientific adviser to the president of the European commission, gives a frank account of the highs and lows of her three years in Brussels.
Big data studies come with replication challenges
The truth can be hard to find with millions of data points and lots of room for error.
Is 'academic citizenship' under strain?
A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?
Tackling unethical authorship deals on scientific publications
The research excellence of academics is often measured by the quantity and quality of their scholarly publications. But how do we know that all authors listed on a publication have actually been involved in the research?
Research groups: how big should they be?
This study investigates the relationship between research group size and productivity in the life sciences in the UK and shows that the number of publications increases linearly with group size, but that the slope is modest relative to the intercept, and that the relationship explains little of the variance in productivity.
Race, Inequality and Diversity in the Academy
Race inequality remains prevalent throughout all areas of higher education, including staffing, admissions and employment, according to a report released by leading UK race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust.
Public and scientists’ views on science and society
Both the public and scientists value the contributions ofscience, but there are large differences in how each perceives science issues.
Twenty-three questions on the lives of scientists
The website is called The Scientific 23 because each interviewee was asked 23 questions.
How did science come to speak only English?
If you can read this sentence, you can talk with a scientist. Well, maybe not about the details of her research, but at least you would share a common language.
Scientists have the power to change the publishing system
We need to assess who gets funded based on research merit, not journal label.
Why GitHub is important for book publishing
The history of the 21st century will be the story of non-hierarchical systems of human organization enabled by the Internet.
EPFL, UNIGE & ETH ranked the 3 most international universities in the world
The 100 most international universities in the world 2015.
White House plans big 2016 budget ask to fight antibiotic resistance
Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.
Science minister explains radical restructure
Amid sanctions and a financial crisis, Dmitry Livanov discusses ongoing reforms to science funding.
No solutions for a decade-old problem
Another set of ideas for fixing the funding crisis for young researchers.
Public engagement: hidden costs for research careers?
Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis.
Science for the people!
In the 1970s, radical scientists thought they could change the world - if they could change science first.
Is competition ruining science?
Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.
On the causes of subject-specific citation rates in Web of Science
Low citation rates in the humanities are not at all the result of a lower average number of references per paper but are caused by the low fraction of linked references which refer to papers published in the core journals covered by WoS.
Crowdfunding propels scientific research
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
Cracking the code to economic success: social scientists are as vital as engineers
Cracking the code to economic success: social scientists are as vital as engineers
History shows us that social scientists are essential if we are to get the most out of our engineering and technological innovations.
A surge of p-values between 0.041 and 0.049 in recent decades
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
Does the myth of the solo genius scientist contribute to imposter syndrome?
On the importance of being able to establish and maintain successful collaborations.
What if universities had to agree to refund grants whenever there was a retraction?
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
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