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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.
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.
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."
Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.
Researchers are increasingly relying on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its crowdsourced labor.
Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommends.
If the United Kingdom leaves the EU, researchers throughout the bloc will feel the effects.
Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance
Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors
The Montreal Neurological Institute plans to free up its findings, including data that point to connections between brain regions communicating at different neural rhythms.
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.
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.
It may not be sexy, but quality assurance is becoming a crucial part of lab life.
Publishing an open-access paper in a journal can be prohibitively expensive. Some researchers are drumming up support for a movement to change that.
Response to the recommendations of an external High Level Expert Group and a Staff Working Document in which the Commission services have evaluated FP7.
A broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.
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).
Respondents value recognition initiatives related to receiving feedback from the journal over monetary rewards and payment in kind.
Corporate boards, the US Congress, and global gatherings like the just-wrapped WEF in Davos are all built on a simple theory of problem solving: Get enough smart and powerful people in a room and they'll figure it out. This may be misguided.
Growth in scientific publishing as a barrier to science communication.
In the face of routine rejection, many scientists must learn to cope with the insidious beast that is impostor syndrome.
Big US report documents increases in international collaboration and Chinese science output.
A wealth of opinions describing what remains to be done to resolve gender issues.
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.
Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.
Pathogens & Immunity promises a quick submission procedure, since it provides a reasonable flexibility about the length of the papers and authors are welcome to include reviews from other journals and their responses.
Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies.
