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Race inequality remains prevalent throughout all areas of higher education, including staffing, admissions and employment, according to a report released by leading UK race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust.
Both the public and scientists value the contributions ofscience, but there are large differences in how each perceives science issues.
The website is called The Scientific 23 because each interviewee was asked 23 questions.
Low citation rates in the humanities are not at all the result of a lower average number of references per paper but are caused by the low fraction of linked references which refer to papers published in the core journals covered by WoS.
We need to assess who gets funded based on research merit, not journal label.
The history of the 21st century will be the story of non-hierarchical systems of human organization enabled by the Internet.
The 100 most international universities in the world 2015.
Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.
Amid sanctions and a financial crisis, Dmitry Livanov discusses ongoing reforms to science funding.
Another set of ideas for fixing the funding crisis for young researchers.
Some early career scholars feel there is not enough support for academics who reach out, say Richard Watermeyer and Jamie Lewis.
In the 1970s, radical scientists thought they could change the world - if they could change science first.
Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.
Holly Else examines European efforts to make academic career paths less challenging to navigate
The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
History shows us that social scientists are essential if we are to get the most out of our engineering and technological innovations.
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
On the importance of being able to establish and maintain successful collaborations.
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.
Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.
The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.
In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.
A perverse focus on research cash and high-impact publications threatens careers and the aims of science itself, says Dorothy Bishop
The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were more predatory.
