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Our PhD employment problem is very simply described: there's a mismatch between the number of graduate students earning doctorates each year and the number of tenure-track faculty positions available to them. There are too few tenure-track jobs for the PhD recipients who are qualified to compete for them.
On the eve of a new funding era, the European Union's research chief tells scientists what to expect
Battelle and R&D Magazine jointly released the 2014 Global R&D Funding Forecast indicating that the combination of private and public global R&D spending was flat for 2013.
Typically papers appearing in journals with large values of the IF receive a high weight in such evaluations. However, at the end of the day one is interested in assessing the impact of individuals, rather than papers. Here we introduce Author Impact Factor (AIF), which is the extension of the IF to authors.
The academic job market is structured in many respects like a drug gang, with an expanding mass of outsiders and a shrinking core of insiders.
An endocrinologist who resigned from the University of Tokyo in March 2012 amid an investigation that concluded 43 of his papers should be retracted, has retracted five more papers. The newest is in this week's Nature.
The new ERC President turns his eyes towards cooperation with China, Japan and South-Korea. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon: “The key is to show eagerness to attract scientists from outside Europe.”
Founders of Google and Facebook award ‘Breakthrough prize’ of $3 million to Michael Hall of the University of Basel in a ceremony hosted by actor Kevin Spacey and featuring a live performance from singer Lana Del Ray.
The British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline will no longer pay doctors to promote its products and will stop tying compensation of sales representatives to the number of prescriptions doctors write.
The Congress of Argentina recently passed a landmark law making publicly funded science and technology research publications free and open access.
Schulterschluss in der Teilchenphysik
Academics fear secrecy will hinder research into the science behind policy decisions.
The EPSRC allocates millions to fund research at residential workshops.
Panelists and attendees at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting considered the future of peer review and journal impact factors.
Civility is important in evaluating a manuscript for publication, but so is telling the truth when the paper falls short.
Pay disparities between female and male PhD holders in the United States exist across almost all fields of science and engineering, according to a report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it.
Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.
Whilst some scientists study insects, molecules, brains, or clouds, other scientists study science itself. Meta-research, or “research-on-research”, is a burgeoning discipline that investigates efficiency, quality, and bias in the scientific ecosystem.
A decades-long ecological experiment in South Carolina has shown the power of a straightforward way to improve wildlife habitats: connect them. Scientists say the study’s results, published Thursday in the journal Science, offer the most compelling evidence yet that connected habitats flourish for years.
Hundreds of scientists across the federal government have been forced out, sidelined or muted since President Trump took office.
When you think of innovation, you also may think of patents and profits. But two Swiss researchers argue that we should be focusing more on people and places.
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
These days, a scientist has to publish a steady stream of research articles to be “successful.” But two new studies argue that that kind of pressure promotes sloppy science at the expense of careful work.
Authors, editors and publishers differ in their understanding of and the value they attach to the purposes of peer review.
Science popularization inclines laypeople to underrate their dependence on experts.
