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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.
Mit einem neuen Kompetenzzentrum wollen ETH Zürich und Universität Zürich in der «Personalisierten Medizin» Führung übernehmen.
Das britische Medienhaus BBC will künftig Wissenschafter, die abseitige Meinungen vertreten, seltener zu Wort kommen lassen. Das bedrohe die Meinungsfreiheit, sagen Kritiker.
Nature, the pre-eminent journal for reporting scientific research, has had to retract two papers it published in January after mistakes were spotted in the figures, some of the methods descriptions were found to be plagiarised and early attempts to replicate the work failed.
Scientists could achieve more fulfilled professional lives by embracing the skills needed for effective interaction with the public.
Every year, thousands of scientists leave Europe for jobs elsewhere, notably the United States. The Old World is trying to get them back.
Kein Wissenschaftler sieht sich gern als bestechlich an. Doch Manipulation und Einflussnahme laufen sehr subtil ab, erklärt Professor Thomas Kliche in der "duz". Der Trick: Auch Korruption kann zu Beginn noch ganz moralisch wirken.
With responses to both the 2013 and 2014 survey given side-by-side, you can easily see how attitudes have changed. Alongside this, the 2014 survey explores many new areas and gives a fascinating insight into authors' current perceptions of open access.
America is a leader in funding for biomedical research, from government, industry, and the non-profit sector. And, for such a large country, the research community is remarkably spread out, with high-quality work being done in every region of the nation.
Realising the innovative potential of digital research methods: a call from the research community.
Libraries are in a good position to push Open Access even further, as they currently fully pay the production costs of the traditional subscription model.
The rate of retractions of scientific papers has been growing over the past decade, suggestive to some of a crisis of confidence in science. Can we no longer trust the scientific literature?
The push for STEM should not drown out the importance of humanities research.
A new network is being launched today, to strengthen science advice and evidence-based policymaking across Europe.
New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis.
