Medicine gets up close and personal
Long-term study will monitor healthy people in detail — and encourage them to respond to the results
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Peering into Peer Review
Why don't proposals given better scores by the NIH lead to more important research outcomes?
Tenure Track nachhaltig
Die Einführung von Tenure Track-Modellen für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ist in Deutschland neuerdings in aller Munde.
NIH plans to enhance reproducibility
Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.
Impactstory.org partners with Altmetric.com
Impactstory will be buying a new data stream: Twitter, G+, and Facebook data from Altmetric.com. Altmetric have spent years working on the thorny problem of connecting tweets with articles.
Do men control the key student societies at university?
My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.
Boycotting academic publishers is a career risk for young scientists
Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?
WHO's vision for information sharing
Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.
Special issue in Euroscientist Webzine
Special issue in Euroscientist Webzine
A special issue of the EuroScientist focusing on the evolving solution for research evaluation
Les agents doubles du classement de Shanghai
Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.
Comparative performance of the UK research base 2013
A report prepared by Elsevier for the UK's department of business, innovation and skills (BIS).
Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results
Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results
Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.
Suggestions to increase participation
Suggestions to increase participation
An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs.
Academic torrents
The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.
Absent from the Academy
A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.
Google Scholar wins raves—but can it be trusted?
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.
Collective allocation of science funding: from funding agencies to scientific agency
Collective allocation of science funding: from funding agencies to scientific agency
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?
The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age
Broken e-mails and obsolete storage devices were the main obstacles to data sharing. Policies mandating data archiving at publication are clearly needed.
re3data: registry of research data repositories
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.
The Jack Andraka story
The Jack Andraka story
Uncovering the hidden contradictions behind a science folk hero.
China tops Europe in R&D intensity
China has for the first time overtaken Europe on the share of its economy devoted to R&D.
Particle-physics papers set free
Tensions as open-access initiative goes live — without the field’s leading journal.
The useful science?
The useful science?
Economics is highly parochial: there were more papers focused on the United States than on Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa combined.
New study reveals funders behind the climate change denial effort
A new study conducted by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert J. Brulle, PhD, exposes the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the powerful climate change countermovement. This study marks the first peer-reviewed, comprehensive analysis ever conducted of the sources of funding that maintain the denial effort.
Unabhängige Forschung: Forscher, wehrt euch!
Im Geschäft der Erkenntnisgewinnung läuft zu viel schief. Zum Glück gibt es Menschen, die das ändern wollen.
The greater good
The greater good
Governments, funding agencies and universities must all do their bit to ensure that research is appropriately assessed and rewarded.
Researchers' 'unrealistic' hopes of academic careers
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.
Data sharing will pay dividends
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.
Why we are not ready for radical changes in science publishing
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.
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