Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Publication Cost Data 2014

New publication of the SERI.

A survey of policies at major research funders found that there is room for more transparency in the process of grant review, which would strengthen the case for the efficiency of public spending on research.

How do reviewer recommendations influence editor decisions? And are Chinese authors treated fairly?

US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.

Evidence from 34 OECD countries.

A survey of 307 reviewers of submissions to the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems to gain a better understanding of their motivations for reviewing.

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Online survey to explore the culture of research in the UK and its effect on ethical conduct in science and the quality of research.

Altmetric mentions and the communication of medical research.

The case of the human-computer interaction community.

A bibliometric analysis.

The researchers also point out that artists and filmmakers, in addition to journalists, could help pull compelling narratives out of all that science.

The latest report on retracted publications in the PubMed database.

When researchers collect or select data or statistical analyses until nonsignificant results become significant.

What if every creative endeavor had to go through Peer Review?

Study comparing the difference in the impact between open access and non-open access articles.

The main goal of the European Research Council (ERC) is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding

Conservative estimates of the value and benefits to Australia of making publicly-funded research data freely available.

The scale of the problem from an academic perspective.

This paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations.

A survey analysis of grant writing costs and benefits

Figshare and the crucial service of generalist repositories.

This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.

For a second year running, rOpenSci is excited to announce another R unconference in March 2015 at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco.

The 4th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Brazil in June 2015 sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, AAAS, NPG, EMBO and others.

Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.

openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.

The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.

Last week the Citizen Science Association held its first conference ever, with 600 people attending from 25 countries.