Move over, Alfred... Yuri Milner, a technology billionaire, wants to turn scientists into celebrities.

Are you having trouble staying on top of the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge? Science Careers asked a few scientists to discuss how they keep up with the literature.

The government will accept applications for the job until 27 January 2017. It is not yet clear how large the adviser’s staff will be, or how the post will be funded.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.

Today, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the NAS announced the formation of a 16-person committee to work on the Next Generation of Researchers study. This study was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in the fiscal 2016 omnibus appropriations package that passed in December 2015.

Two features of peer review subvert the goals of science: reviews are kept secret and reviewers are usually anonymous, argues Jeffrey S. Flier.

Huda Zoghbi, Stephen Elledge, Jean Bourgain, Joe Polchinski and other researchers in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics share awards from prize founders Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.

A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.

Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.

GRID’s comprehensive database of over 66,000 global research organizations now available under a CC0 license, allowing users to make full use of the database releases with no need for attribution.

Institutions struggle to respond after court blocks regulations that would have increased wages for junior researchers.

Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.

Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.

Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.

India and China are the main winners in our list of the best universities in emerging economies

iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.

Embargoes allow journals, universities, nonprofits, and corporations to decide what’s important — and when. That should be up to journalists.

Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.

John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.

On behalf of UK institutions, Jisc Collections has signed an agreement with Elsevier, covering access to research publications. The five-year, opt-in agreement offers subscription access to around 2,116 journals on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect online platform.

Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards.

Experiments are invaluable and have, in the past, shown the consensus opinion of experts to be wrong. But those who fetishize this methodology can also impair progress toward the truth.

The rise of predatory conferences

Scientific publications are getting more and more names attached to them

Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group. 

Bylines on scientific papers are multiplying, but this doesn't reflect more science being done

Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics.

As the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rises comes into force this month, these are the universities that have, between 2011 and 2015, produced the environmental science research with the greatest impact

An unexpected autumn statement windfall for research, innovation and industrial strategy has given scientists their first bit of cheer for a while

Lengthy titles of journal papers are a turn-off for fellow academics and lead to fewer citations, claims new analysis