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Fewer than half of those new to research can expect long-term academic careers There is a "significant credibility gap" between researchers' expectations and the likelihood of their forging long-term careers in higher education, a survey has found.
As public pressure builds for drug companies to make more results available from clinical trials, the industry should not forget that it relies on collective goodwill to test new therapies.
There are indeed concerns about the current science publishing model, but until major changes in grant funding are incorporated, researchers will continue to lust after publications in high-tier journals.
Over the past year, Jonathan Eisen's reading habits have changed dramatically. For most of the past 2 decades, he has kept up with scientific literature primarily by combing PubMed. But these days Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, discovers research relevant to his own work without even looking for it.
The NSF and the NIH award tens of billions of dollars in annual science funding. How can this money be distributed as efficiently as possible to best promote scientific innovation and productivity?
Broken e-mails and obsolete storage devices were the main obstacles to data sharing. Policies mandating data archiving at publication are clearly needed.
re3data.org presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org aims to promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.
Uncovering the hidden contradictions behind a science folk hero.
China has for the first time overtaken Europe on the share of its economy devoted to R&D.
Scientists who move countries tend to publish in higher-impact journals than those who remain at home, a study finds
How do we support basic curiosity-driven research and maintain our position as the global leader in innovation and technology at a time of rapidly dwindling government funds?
NIH considers supporting more individual researchers rather than projects.
Researchers uncovered evidence of women scientists working in the field of infectious diseases being disadvantaged in crucial funding allocations for more than a decade in the UK.
Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken, according to Randy W. Schekman who has declared a boycott on the publications.
Researchers have been receiving notices from Academia.edu with takedown requests from Elsevier.
A concentration of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies explains the Swiss position atop the rankings, according to USISTF director Ann Liebschutz.
In the coming days, the US Senate will consider the confirmation of Dr. France Córdova as director of the NSF. If confirmed, Dr. Córdova will be the latest in a line of distinguished scientists to lead the nearly $7 billion agency.
When Peter Higgs, of Higgs boson fame, was quoted in the Guardian on Friday as saying "Today I wouldn't get an academic job" because he would not "be regarded as productive enough", it prompted much nodding and retweeting from academics.
The long arm of the law has reached into an investigation of alleged scientific misconduct in Italy.
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues present a bibliometric analysis confirming that gender imbalances persist in research output worldwide.
Paper showing how to manipulate the Google Citations profiles of a research group through the creation of false documents that cite their documents, and consequently, the journals in which they have published modifying their H index.
Wie sich die UBS mit ihrer Spende von 100 Millionen Franken die Universität Zürich hörig machte.
Scientists desperate to have an "impact" in their field are cherry-picking and misrepresenting their results. It's the natural result of a desperate scramble to publish. Science, according to a recent Nature article, is like Battleship. You fire shots into the dark and mostly miss your target.
When scientists moan about how little politicians know about science, I usually get annoyed. Such grouching is almost always counterproductive and more often than not betrays how little scientists know about the UK's governance structures, processes, culture and history.
How easy is it to reproduce the results found in a typical computational biology paper? Either through experience or intuition the reader will already know that the answer is with difficulty or not at all.
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The Bloomberg administration and venture capitalists create a $100 million program for small firms.
The journal Food and Chemical Toxicology has just retracted a controversial article published in September 2012 claiming a link between genetically modified maize and cancer.
