There's no space for today's young Einsteins
The gravitational waves theorist saw physics as no one else did, but if he was around today his time would be spent chasing grants or tenures.
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A bridge to business
PhD holders should not underestimate their value to industry and the business sector.
Put innovation science at the heart of discovery
The success rate of discoveries would be improved if we could find out how to innovate.
Why one woman stole 47 million academic papers - and made them all free to read
How Sci-Hub breaks the paywall and how did academic journals get so expensive?
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
Review time in peer review: quantitative analysis and modelling of editorial workflows
A data-driven theoretical investigation of editorial workflows.
The 2016 Science|Business Horizon 2020 Conference
Webcasts of the 2016 Science|Business Horizon2020 conference: will its overall, annual budget be cut in this year's EU funding review?
Open Scholar C.I.C.
A not-for-profit organisation whose activities, assets and profits are dedicated to the purpose of providing benefit to the scientific community.
The advantage of simple paper abstracts
Paper showing that doubling the word frequency of an average abstract increases citations by 0.70% and that journals which publish papers whose abstracts are shorter and contain more frequently used words receive slightly more citations per paper.
Rapid Science
To promote and reward collaboration we’re developing a “C-score” that measures the quality and quantity of collaborators’ contributions to group efforts.,
THE University Workplace Survey 2016
Times Higher Education's poll shows that the bulk of staff find their work rewarding but there is a deep gulf between academics and professional and support staff.
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.
Does it take too long to publish research?
Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.
ArXiv rejections lead to spat over screening process
High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.
A plea for open science on Zika
20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.
Obama makes risky bid to increase science spending
Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.
Top Nobel Prize administrator resigns in wake of Macchiarini scandal
The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.
Getting credit for peer review
It’s rare for scientists to get much systematic or public recognition for their reviewing efforts
Publish or perish? Metrics and research diversity
If we want to embed equality and diversity in research culture, any future use of metrics to assess research must not adversely affect specific groups or researchers.
Towards an open science publishing platform
The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
Assessment of H2020 programme
An assessment of the first two years of Horizon 2020 programme, taking into account
iSEER: an intelligent automatic computer system for scientific evaluation of researchers
iSEER: an intelligent automatic computer system for scientific evaluation of researchers
An intelligent machine learning framework for scientific evaluation of researchers may help decision makers to better allocate the available funding to the distinguished scientists through providing fair comparative results, regardless of the career age of the researchers.
Independent advice
Independent advice from Professor Adam Tickell on open access to research publications.
Individual bibliometric assessment at University of Vienna: from numbers to multidimensional profiles
Individual bibliometric assessment at University of Vienna: from numbers to multidimensional profiles
This paper shows how bibliometric assessment can be implemented at individual level.
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.
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