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A systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users develops a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view.
The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.
openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped, by Bob Goldstein
This article investigates the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as a tool to carry out case studies about national innovation capacities in the case of given countries..
The final act in a long-running saga should bring tighter controls on unproven therapies, both at home and abroad.
"I never quit until I get what I'm after. Negative results are just what I'm after. They are just as valuable to me as positive results." - Thomas A. Edison.
In April 2014, four leaders of the scientific establishment issued
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results.
The cooperation will expose to Altmetric the metadata of all the Paperity articles for proper identification. In return, Altmetric will track social mentions of these articles and measure online attention they receive, with calculation of Altmetric score.
Why only 2 of 43 young scientists receiving the prestigious University Research Fellowships in the UK were women.
Last spring, the four of us published an essay in PNAS in which we described the severe problems now faced by scientists working in the US biomedical research system, recommending several steps that might be taken to improve the situation...
Scholarly articles are distributed almost exclusively in digital form. While there is an increasing number of journal articles freely available via green or gold open access, the majority of them still can only be read if the reader works at an institution with a subscription to the journal..
It has taken a while, but the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) have come out with a valuable booklet on authorships of scientific manuscripts. This recommendations, published now also as a special article in the Swiss Medical Weekly, aspire to serve as a practical guide for principal investigators confronted with the task of assigning authorships to the individuals contributing to scientific manuscripts.
What we're learning, and why it matters.
Not only are scientific articles that have strong coverage in social media likely to be cited more in the future, social media is also the tool that allows us to communicate directly with the general public.
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The Unionization of Postdoctoral Workers at the University of California.
A Survey of Researchers Submitting to Data Repositories
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
A survey finds that 87% of scientists agree with the statement “Scientists should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.
Last week the Citizen Science Association held its first conference ever, with 600 people attending from 25 countries.
A startup accelerator called "Scholas.Labs" was announced during an education event hosted by Pope Francis.
Corruption is a barrier to innovation. Greater scrutiny of public spending is needed if science and technology are to fulfil their potential.
Professors issue warning over obsession with performance management and research excellence.
An interview with John Ioannidis, co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Real scientific controversies are self-correcting shows the BICEP2 and Planck example.
The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster.
