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The study aims to shed light on international collaboration by researchers from the Eastern European countries
A short essay about the new trends in science policy, communication, and public outreach.
Italian physicist will take the reins at the European physics powerhouse in 2016
Consensus on reporting principles aims to improve quality control in biomedical research and encourage public trust in science
Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push.
Politicians renew commitment to research and education progammes with €25 billion over six years.
The fraction of cited papers that are at least 10 years older than the paper citing them has increased steadily, from about 28% in 1990 to 36% in 2013.
Overly optimistic investments in scientific fields, research methods and technologies generate episodes comparable to those experienced by financial markets prior to crashing.
In the 25 years since the collapse of communism, the countries of central and Eastern Europe have each carved their own identity in science.
Ever look at a research paper and wonder how the half-dozen or more authors contributed to the work?
Independent replication of studies before publication may reveal sources of unreliable results.
Christoph Keese, Manager at Axel Springer publishing house, published his experiences of living in Silicon Valley in a book.
The proportion of federal research funding going to investigators older than 65 was greater than that going to researchers younger than 35, even if most Nobel recipients made their discoveries before they were 40 years old.
I am increasingly seeing contradictory licensing statements on the websites of low-quality, questionable, and predatory publishers.
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
Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong
