What constitutes a citable scientific work?
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
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Freezing out young scientists
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
Adventures with R
A guide to the popular, free statistics and visualization software that gives scientists control of their own data analysis.
Criteria for Nature Index questioned
How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.
Ministers unveil science strategy 2016-2021
£6 billion (ca. 9 billion CHF) package for science and innovation in the years 2016 to 2021 announced. A review of research councils will ensure 'maximum impact' from investment.
Rivalries for research infrastructures
First call for "Shared Research Facilities" shall organize and give access to bigger research infrastructures in Austria
Obstacles and incentives to researcher mobility
In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.
Study of massive preprint archive hints at plagiarism
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
Comprehensive database of retractions
The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.
Nature 's 10
Nature 's 10
Ten people who mattered this year.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
Altmetric's top 100: what does it all mean?
The top 100 list of Altmetrics is fascinating for what it tells us about communication between scientists, the attention paid to science by the general public, and also for what it tells us about altmetrics themselves.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus
First comprehensive study of patterns of text reuse within the full texts of an important large scientific corpus, covering a 20-y timeframe.
The hottest, emerging fields in scientific research
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
328 top early-career researchers selected by the ERC
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
Where does the science hype come from?
New research shows that most exaggeration in health-related science news is already present in the press releases issued by universities.
Switzerland ranks only 24th
The state of government open data across the globe in 2014. Switzerland has space for improvement.
Social Tech Guide
Social Tech Guide
The Social Tech Guide aims to celebrate, inspire and accelerate the use of digital technology as a tool for significant social change.
Rockefeller University expands
Billionaire David Rockefeller, along with the foundation of his longtime friend, the late Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, have pledged $150 million to expand the university founded by Rockefeller’s grandfather.
Die EU darf nicht bei der Forschung sparen
Die EU will das Geld für ihr milliardenschweres Investitionsprogramm aus dem Forschungsbudget entnehmen. Besser als ein kreditfinanziertes Investitionsprogramm wäre es, eine EU-weite Steuererleichterung für Forschungs- und Innovationstätigkeiten der Privatwirtschaft einzuführen.
The direction of travel in scholarly publishing
Recent moves by established journals to make research papers freely available signpost the direction of travel in academic publishing
Fighting to protect its commenters anonymity
Opinion article by the founders of PubPeer.com on right to anonymity.
Paradigms and prejudice
Able women who set out to make academic careers in math-intensive fields of science have as good a chance of succeeding as men today, keeping in mind that the chances don’t appear great for anyone of either gender.
Overcoming unconscious gender bias in science evaluation
Never thought of being gender biased when performing evaluations? Take the implicit association test.
Why evaluating scientists by grant income is stupid
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
Uber for experiments
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
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