The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
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Excellence program gets good grades
Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommends.
Academics across Europe join 'Brexit' debate
If the United Kingdom leaves the EU, researchers throughout the bloc will feel the effects.
Research quality declines with scientists' age, study finds
Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance
High rejection rates by journals 'pointless'
Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors
If you fail to reproduce another scientist's results, this journal wants to know
If you fail to reproduce another scientist's results, this journal wants to know
The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups' published papers.
Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.
Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.
A series of studies across countries and disciplines in higher education confirm that student evaluations of teaching (SET) are significantly correlated with instructor gender, with students regularly rating female instructors lower than male peers.
The collaboration curse
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.
Let's just try that again
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change.
A tragedy of errors
Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix.
Evaluating the impact of interdisciplinary research
A method that could be used by funding agencies, universities and scientific policy decision makers for hiring and funding purposes, and to complement existing methods to rank universities and countries.
Evolution and convergence of the patterns of international scientific collaboration
Evolution and convergence of the patterns of international scientific collaboration
This study shows that the long-run patterns of international scientific collaboration are generating a convergence between applied and basic fields. This convergence of collaboration patterns across research fields might be one of contributing factors that supports the evolution of scientific disciplines.
Qauality and transparency of the peer-review process
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
Someone is showing what it'd be like if male scientists were written about like women
"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."
Why is it so damn hard to get a paper retracted?
Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.
The Unknown, Poorly Paid Labor Force Powering Academic Research
Researchers are increasingly relying on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its crowdsourced labor.
Faking it
In the face of routine rejection, many scientists must learn to cope with the insidious beast that is impostor syndrome.
Research gets increasingly international
Big US report documents increases in international collaboration and Chinese science output.
EuroScientist gender balance special issue
A wealth of opinions describing what remains to be done to resolve gender issues.
The academic world urges publishers to enter a brave new world
The Chair and Secretary-General of LERU present the signatures to the LERU Statement on Open Access to Commissioner Carlos Moedas and Dutch Secretary of State Sander Dekker.
Montreal institute going 'open' to accelerate science
The Montreal Neurological Institute plans to free up its findings, including data that point to connections between brain regions communicating at different neural rhythms.
Controversial CRISPR history sets off an online firestorm
Eric Lander's CRISPR history could determine the outcome of a bitter patent fight, but the author failed to disclose conflicts of interest, critics say.
Don't let transparency damage science
Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop explain how the research community should protect its members from harassment, while encouraging the openness that has become essential to science.
How quality control could save your science
It may not be sexy, but quality assurance is becoming a crucial part of lab life.
Academics want you to read their work for free
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
Ex-post evaluation of FP7
Response to the recommendations of an external High Level Expert Group and a Staff Working Document in which the Commission services have evaluated FP7.
NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2016
A broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.
Recommendations for the transition to Open Access in Austria
By 2025, all scholarly publication activity in Austria should be Open Access: the final versions of all scholarly publications resulting from the support of public resources must be freely accessible on the Internet without delay (Gold Open Access).
Rewarding reviewers - sense or sensibility?
Respondents value recognition initiatives related to receiving feedback from the journal over monetary rewards and payment in kind.
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