Could digital badges clarify the roles of co-authors?
Ever look at a research paper and wonder how the half-dozen or more authors contributed to the work?
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Metascience could rescue the 'replication crisis'
Independent replication of studies before publication may reveal sources of unreliable results.
What can Europe learn from Silicon Valley?
Christoph Keese, Manager at Axel Springer publishing house, published his experiences of living in Silicon Valley in a book.
Interactive notebooks
The free IPython notebook makes data analysis easier to record, understand and reproduce.
How should we report on science policy?
An interview with Science Magazine's Deputy News Editor, Policy & Environment, David Malakoff on the topic of science policy reporting.
Fang Zhouzi Erased from China's Social Media
Fang Zhouzi Erased from China's Social Media
Fang Zhouzi is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. But a few days ago, Fang Zhouzi has been erased.
A professor for all cases
A professor for all cases
The Technical University Dresden is breaking new ground by hiring chairs not tied to a discipline.
A 1959 essay by Isaac Asimov on creativity
Note from Arthur Obermayer, friend of the author: In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft structures.
Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data
As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need.
Less prestigious journals publishing greater share of high-impact papers
The dominance of the elite journals is eroding.
Correcting the bias against interdisciplinary research
When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.
EU's development policy on thin ice
EU's development policy on thin ice
A scientific board that helped forge links between European researchers and policymakers will close down on November 1, 2014. It is unknown if the new development commissioner will set up a similar board.
Charles Munger Makes $65 Million Gift to Theoretical Physics
Charles Munger Makes $65 Million Gift to Theoretical Physics
On Friday Charles Munger has donated $65 million to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The gift represents the largest in the school’s history.
Pillars of reform
China has come to an unsettling conclusion: the system that it uses to invest in science and technology is broken.
Is your most cited work your best?
John P. A. Ioannidis and colleagues asked the most highly cited biomedical scientists to score their top-ten papers in six ways.
Does science suffer an ‘innovation deficit’?
U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year
Machine-Learning Maestro on the Delusions of Big Data
Big-data boondoggles and brain-inspired chips are just two of the things we’re really getting wrong
Rich Citations
We’ve developed an enriched format for citations, called, appropriately enough, rich citations.
Aging Researchers and Funding Trends
The proportion of federal research funding going to investigators older than 65 was greater than that going to researchers younger than 35, even if most Nobel recipients made their discoveries before they were 40 years old.
Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don't Understand Copyright
Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don't Understand Copyright
I am increasingly seeing contradictory licensing statements on the websites of low-quality, questionable, and predatory publishers.
Author Insights 2014
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
More than half of 2007-2012 research articles now free to read
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
Nobelpreisträger bilden Komitee gegen die Abschottung
Vor der Abstimmung zur SVP-Initiative war von den Schweizer Wissenschaftlern nicht viel zu hören gewesen. Nun schalten sie sich offiziell in die Politik ein.
Engagement für mehr Öffnung
Er gründet eine Online-Zeitschrift ohne jegliche Schranke, twittert die Mitteilungen des Bundesgerichts und bemüht sich hartnäckig darum, dass alle Gerichte ihre Urteile zugänglich machen: Daniel Hürlimann rüttelt am Justizapparat.
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
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