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The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
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The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
How methods videos are making science smarter
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
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Papers with shorter titles get more citations
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
Men are more likely than women to engage in self-citation
[11]A new study found that 31% of men engage in self-citation, compared to only 21% of women.
Biohackers gear up for genome editing
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
No substitute for good research management
You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe.
The question of data integrity in Article-Level Metrics
As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.
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What is the one fact humanity needs to know?
What is the one fact humanity needs to know?
“If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?”
Citations? Great. But have you got the 't factor'?
Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations.
Increasing fusions between universities
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Courts refuse scientists' bids to prevent retractions
US judges dismiss injunctions against journals.
Academics seek to challenge 'web of avarice' in scientific publishing
Academics are challenging the control of a select group of publishing houses over scientific journals.
Many hands make light work
Many hands make light work
Open science will be one of the priorities of the Dutch presidency of the European Union in 2016.
64 more papers retracted for fake reviews, this time from Springer journals
Springer is pulling another 64 articles from 10 journals after finding evidence of faked peer reviews, bringing the total number of retractions from the phenomenon north of 230.
Leaving the EU would drive away talented foreign scientists
A Brexit would put the UK’s academic success at risk as European research stars go elsewhere.
Science isn't broken
"If we’re going to rely on science as a means for reaching the truth — and it’s still the best tool we have — it’s important that we understand and respect just how difficult it is to get a rigorous result."
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What recent research says about fraud, errors, and other dismaying academic problems.
Rise of the citizen scientist
From the oceans to the soil, technology is changing the part that amateurs can play in research. But this greater involvement raises concerns that must be addressed.
Too much of a good thing? An observational study of prolific authors
Institutions and funders should be alert to unfeasibly prolific authors when measuring and creating incentives for researcher productivity.
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