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Fang Zhouzi is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. But a few days ago, Fang Zhouzi has been erased.
The Technical University Dresden is breaking new ground by hiring chairs not tied to a discipline.
Note from Arthur Obermayer, friend of the author: In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft structures.
As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need.
The dominance of the elite journals is eroding.
When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.
A scientific board that helped forge links between European researchers and policymakers will close down on November 1, 2014. It is unknown if the new development commissioner will set up a similar board.
On Friday Charles Munger has donated $65 million to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The gift represents the largest in the school’s history.
China has come to an unsettling conclusion: the system that it uses to invest in science and technology is broken.
John P. A. Ioannidis and colleagues asked the most highly cited biomedical scientists to score their top-ten papers in six ways.
U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year
As monitoring of scholars' performance, time and output increases, so do reservations about its value and effectiveness
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.
We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.
Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
Vor der Abstimmung zur SVP-Initiative war von den Schweizer Wissenschaftlern nicht viel zu hören gewesen. Nun schalten sie sich offiziell in die Politik ein.
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
Newly appointed chief executive of the CSIRO Larry Marshall says he is comfortable with crises, which can become a ‘catalyst for change and redirection’
Hundreds of scientists around the world are asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end "burdensome restrictions on scientific communication and collaboration faced by Canadian government scientists."
Steep budget cuts could push Italian universities and research centers beyond the point of no return, an academic body warned yesterday.
Accounting and working with budget numbers isn't always that boring as it appears to be, especially if it's spiced up with marketing. A good example is the debate on the budget of Horizon 2020.
