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Study Outlines Steps That Growing Startups Must Follow to Succeed

Study Outlines Steps That Growing Startups Must Follow to Succeed

A road map for the founding entrepreneur who seeks to retain the CEO position as a company gains market traction and begins a period of rapid growth.

Single versus Double Blind Reviewing

Single versus Double Blind Reviewing

The implications for conference program committees of adopting single-blind reviewing.

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

Statistical information about the participation of these three groups in science and engineering education and employment.

Open Access to Scientific Articles: A Review of Benefits and Challenges

Open Access to Scientific Articles: A Review of Benefits and Challenges

The different options to achieve open access, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting open access versions of article manuscripts in repositories.

The Gender Bias in Peer Reviewing Reveals the Sexism in Academia

The Gender Bias in Peer Reviewing Reveals the Sexism in Academia

Even women researchers are more likely to choose men to review their academic papers.

The Vital Role of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the New Administration

The Vital Role of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the New Administration

Science, technology, and innovation are vital to America’s economy and workforce, and the competitiveness of U.S. industry. The authors offer five recommendations to ensure the establishment of an effective White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Transparency and Openness in Science

Transparency and Openness in Science

Among the wider scientific community, there is a widespread dissatisfaction with the current level of transparency and reproducibility in published research and, as part of our response to this, we signed up to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines (https://cos.io/top/).The objective of the TOP guidelines is to encourage transparency, openness and reproducibility in science. By developing shared standards for openness across journals, it is hoped to change the current incentive structures to drive researchers' behaviour towards more openness.

Don't Be A Zero-Sum Reviewer

Don't Be A Zero-Sum Reviewer

Time devoted to research is increasingly precious to us in academia. We chastise ourselves for not being able to keep up with the huge volumes of current literature. If only there was some way that all the latest literature on a particular topic could be packaged together for us, and delivered right to our inbox without us even having to lift a finger! Now, what would we call such an improbable utopia – ah yes, peer review.

Why Having a (Nonfinancial) Interest Is Not a Conflict of Interest

Why Having a (Nonfinancial) Interest Is Not a Conflict of Interest

A current debate about conflicts of interest related to biomedical research is to question whether the focus on financial conflicts of interest overshadows “nonfinancial” interests that could put scientific judgment at equal or greater risk of bias.