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Many factors influence success in a science career. Hard work, ambition, flair, and luck played a role in the success of Tim Hunt, who won a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Hunt's career demonstrates the importance of two additional success factors: playfulness and early independence.
When universities become corporatized, as has been happening quite systematically over the last generation as part of the general neoliberal assault on the population, their business model means that what matters is the bottom line.
Earlier this year, at a symposium organized by Nature in Melbourne, Australia, a group of leading academics, funders and government advisers discussed how research outcomes are measured. This Nature Outlook was influenced by these debates.
This document is the annual work programme for the European Research Council funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
It is known that statistically significant results are more likely to be published than results that are not statistically significant. We conducted a search in the abstracts of papers published between 1990 and 2014. The results indicate that negative results are not disappearing, but have actually become 4.3 times more prevalent since 1990. Positive results, on the other hand, have become 13.9 times more prevalent since 1990.
Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.
Fund people, not projects. The NIH is now encouraging its 27 institutes and centers to launch their own people awards.
Applicants are required to assess seven competing proposals in exchange for having their own application reviewed.
Letter urging to support for the post of Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission President.
DORA is calling for the scientific community to contribute fresh JIF-less examples to the new DORA web page. Some procedures collected to date will affect scientists applying for positions at Europe's leading EMBO in Germany, at the NSF and at the NIH.
Thomson Reuters vows to be clearer about how science's most misused metric is calculated.
The changing nature of research evaluation in UK higher education is creating perverse and damaging consequences that reinforce an excessively narrow definition of what counts as "high-quality" research.
Commenters on post-publication peer review sites such as PubPeer are catching errors that traditional peer reviewers have missed.
According to a study published last year, “most investigators who engage in wrongdoing, even serious wrongdoing, continue to conduct research at their institutions.”
Under current scientific publishing norms, most research – including, but not limited to, the analysis of thin circular objects – is accessible only to high-paying institutions.
Young researchers, especially women, are more likely to be sexually harassed or assaulted when they are doing fieldwork than in the office.
An open research proposal calling for open research proposals and funding transparency.
Retractions of scientific papers have recently been in the spotlight. Unfortunately, the interpretation of statistics about them is often flawed. Evidence suggests that retractions have grown not because of rising misconduct, but because scientists have become more aware of and responsive against fraudulent and flawed research.
Nice interactive graphic allows you to explore the relationship between college majors and occupations.
Open Access and Being Human Dr Martin Paul Eve, co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities and editor of the open access journal Alluviun, reflects on Open Access engagement, and the politics of information management in a digital age.
Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we're steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.
A new study finds that very few scientists (fewer than 1%) manage to publish a paper every year. But these scientists dominate the research journals, having their names on 41% of all papers.
At the beginning of July, LIBER and 17 other research and library organisations across Europe called on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM). The number of signatories to the letter has now surpassed 40. They include 33 professional groups plus individual researchers, professors and librarians in a total of 18 countries.
Anonymity of authors as well as reviewers could level field for women and minorities in science.
David Willetts resigned from his post as UK universities and science minister yesterday as part of a government reshuffle. Today, Greg Clark, a conservative minister responsible for cities policy and constitutional reform, has taken over Willetts' portfolio.
