Britain’s R&D funding needs no innovation
Turning research grants into loans risks stymieing successful industry
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Reviewer fatigue? Why scholars decline to review their peers' work
Breuning et al. include some tips for avoiding reviewer fatigue:
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
An analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers.
Artificial intelligence institute launches free science search engine
Semantic Scholar comes from centre backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Troubled billion-euro Brain Project secures another three years' funding
European Commission hopes agreement will restore lost confidence.
Success rates: surge in applications to 'struggling' research councils
Success rates fall at five out of six councils amid warnings that the process could become ‘more of a lottery’ as reviewers are stretched.
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.
Massive pool of US biomedical postdocs starts to shrink
A decades-long surge in the numbers of US biomedical postdocs may finally have ended..
Africa produces 1.1% of global scientific knowledge
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
Why scientists should study art and literature
What benefit does a future scientist derive from knowing something about art and literature?
Why is academic writing so needlessly complex?
Some research funders have mandated in recent years that studies they finance be published in open-access journals, but they've given little attention to ensuring those studies include accessible writing.
Are we finally getting serious about fixing science?
Biomedical research has faced criticism for being unreliable, but a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences might change all that.
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
2015 survey: a global view
White paper showing that the vast majority of authors believe that blind peer review helps to minimize discrimination.
A century of physics
An analysis of WoS data spanning more than 100 years reveals the rapid growth and increasing multidisciplinarity of physics, as well its internal map of subdisciplines.
Does innovation always come from science?
Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded.
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
ORCID auto-update launch a 'game changer'
ORCID has announced the launch of Auto-Update functionality, in collaboration with Crossref and DataCite.
UC policy extends free access to all scholarly articles written by UC employees
University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a [3]Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide.
2015 Nature graduate-student survey
Graduate students dream of academia but are keeping their career options open, according to a 2015 Nature survey.
Over 60% of 2015 research articles on Nature.com are OA
Sixty three per cent of original research articles published to date on nature.com in 2015 are open access, nearly 10,000 papers. Ten years ago, NPG introduced its first fully open access journal. Today, NPG publishes over 80 journals with an open access option.
Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows
Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows.
Virtual rat brain fails to impress its critics
Some scientists the long-awaited paper of the Blue Brain Project, a 10-year program spearheaded by neuroscientist Henry Markram, as proof that the idea of modeling a brain and all of its components is misguided and a waste of money.
Do academy members publish better papers?
As an institution, science is not fond of privilege. Success in science is supposed to be the result of merit - hard work, tenacity and, to some degree, sheer luck - not nepotism, favoritism, or entitlement.
Let's make sure it's fair as well as transparent
Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years - largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt to ensure that research papers are made freely available. Publishers are struggling to adapt their business models to the new challenges.
Owning your mistakes
Owning your mistakes
Most scientists admit to their errors but, as Eve Marder explains, the scientific community as a whole needs to rethink the way it recognizes achievement.
When things go wrong
Publishers should apply consistent policies to correcting the published literature and adopt versioning. The scientific community ought to encourage corrections.
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