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This study investigates the relationship between research group size and productivity in the life sciences in the UK and shows that the number of publications increases linearly with group size, but that the slope is modest relative to the intercept, and that the relationship explains little of the variance in productivity.
Low citation rates in the humanities are not at all the result of a lower average number of references per paper but are caused by the low fraction of linked references which refer to papers published in the core journals covered by WoS.
Study on the benefits of competition in providing incentives to scientists and the adverse effects of competition on resource sharing, research integrity and creativity.
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
How the US position as a global leader in biomedical research is being undermined.
We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results: specifically, we introduce a peer-review oath and accompanying manifesto.
Comparison of the recall of commonly used online indexers.
On the challenges of crowdfunded science projects.
Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.
On transparency in the process of grant review.
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
People working together can achieve more than they can alone; this is a fundamental principle upon which organizations are founded.
Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual "Wikipedia for data" to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia.
A selection of position papers submitted by stakeholders, to be presented at the workshops.
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Europe's heavy administrative and bureaucratic burden makes collaborations difficult.
The quality and quantity of data on economic activity are expanding.
There are shifts in individual innovative productivity, which is manifested by the fact that the contribution of young scientists to science is getting smaller and – as a result of deepening of specialization – the dominance of teamwork increases.
The NSF released a compilation of statistics about its merit review process that will be of great interest to researchers.
In a comic format, AJAM presents a graphic novella about Big Data, privacy and the future of sharing.
An interview with Science Magazine's Deputy News Editor, Policy & Environment, David Malakoff on the topic of science policy reporting.
