Queen Mary University of London considers making PhD students employees
Importance of doctoral candidates in research makes it likely that many institutions will make the change, says principal.
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The Federal Council launches three new national research programs
The Federal Council has launched three new NRPs: "Medi/Healthcare", "Antimicrobial Resistance", and "Big Data".
Risky business
Funding agencies should highlight their roles as risk managers to underpin public trust.
Impact, not impact factor
The scientific community must not rely exclusively on the impact factors of journals.
Emerging trends in peer review: a survey
"Classical peer review" has been subject to intense criticism for slowing down the publication process, bias against specific categories of paper and author, unreliability, inability to detect errors and fraud, unethical practices, and the lack of recognition for unpaid reviewers. This paper surveys innovative forms of peer review that attempt to address these issues.
Incidence of data duplications in a randomly selected pool of Life Sciences
This study questions the reliability of life science literature, it illustrates that data duplications are widespread and independent of journal impact factor and call for a reform of the current peer review and retraction process of scientific publishing.
A human right to citizen science
The flourishing of citizen science is an exciting phenomenon with the potential to contribute significantly to scientific progress. However, we lack a framework for addressing in a principled and effective manner the pressing ethical questions it raises. We argue that at the core of any such framework must be the human right to science.
The web will either kill science journals or save them
Scientific research is awesome-we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it. But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy.
The Retraction Watch Leaderboard
Who has the most retractions? Here's the Retraction Watch list.
Paper disputes causes of research misconduct
Productive researchers with high-impact papers and those working in countries were the pressure to publish is intense are less likely to produce retracted papers and are more likely to correct them.
Election results delight scientists
Election results delight scientists
Researchers hope that a more pluralistic parliament will put an end to interference and slipping standards.
Undue burdens
Proposed controls on foreign operations in China are a threat to scientific collaboration.
Explosive intervention set to transform climate change debate
Explosive intervention set to transform climate change debate
Pope Francis squarely blames the burning of fossil fuels for climate change in the leaked draft of his long-awaited environmental encyclical.
Brexit and science: let's not make the same mistake as the Swiss
What lessons does the Swiss ambivalence towards European Union hold for the UK?
Funders must encourage scientists to share
To realize the full potential of large data sets, researchers must agree on better ways to pass data around, says Martin Bobrow.
Wondering if I'm the next Tim Hunt
Would we worry a little more about academic freedom—about his right to hold an unpopular view and still be a member of the academic community?
Retraction of scientific papers for fraud or bias is just the tip of the iceberg
Investigating fraud is hard work, and it is easier for journal editors to ignore the problem and perpetuate the myth that peer review of trial reports ensures their scientific quality.
Elsevier cracks down on pirated scientific articles
Elsevier has filed a complaint hoping to shut down websites which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive.
Researchers protest government reforms
About 3000 Russian scientists rallied in Moscow on Saturday to protest against government reforms of the research system and the imposition of competitive funding, which is not commonly used in the country.
Employee suspended on suspicion of embezzling funds
The EPFL has launched an investigation into an alleged misappropriation of 218'000 CHF from its prestigious [16]Blue Brain Project.
Bourguignon's statement on Hunt's comments
ERC President statement on reported comments by ERC Scientific Council member
Why "science" is one of the most powerful arguments in the pro-EU campaign
The case of Switzerland is a clear example of how a "no" vote could damage UK science.
Dora the brave
The DORA Declaration points out that using the Journal Impact Factor as a proxy measure for the value or quality of specific research and individual scientists leads to biased research assessment. How can we resist misusing metrics?
Killing tenure is academia's point of no return
If faculties across the US don’t take a very public and aggressive stand in defense of their colleagues in Wisconsin, there will be little to stop the process of complete corporatization of higher education.
Five companies control more than half of academic publishing
[3]A study at the University of Montreal shows that Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage now publish more than 50% of all academic articles. This number has been rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and only 20% in 1973.
Irreproducible biology research costs put at $28 billion per year
Study calculates cost of flawed biomedical research in the US.
Examining the predictive validity of NIH peer review scores
"Retrospective analyses of the correlation between percentile scores from peer review and bibliometric indices of the publications resulting from funded grant applications are not valid tests of the predictive validity of peer review at the NIH."
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