Academic research can be hugely stressful. This study shows that the demands of applying for a research grant also carry an emotional toll.

Publicity spurs science study retractions 7 times more often.

New data show the short-term economic activity generated by science funding, by Julia Lane.

Die interdisziplinäre Studie zeigt auf, welche Folgen damit verbunden sind, z.B. im Hinblick auf die Persönlichkeitsrechte, den Datenschutz oder den Umgang von Betroffenen mit Krankheitsrisiken.

NIH's initiative to support and implement fairer competition for minority students is a welcome step to redress the exploitation of African Americans by science.

An exploratory survey among Harvard bioscientists

Switzerland utilizes the swissnex and embassy science sections to support science, technology, and innovation networks for its scientific and industrial competitiveness.

For the first time, the scientific community acted collectively and across disciplinary or national boundaries as a political actor for the sake of a better science policy for Europe.

Dutch universities will value quality above quantity in publications.

This reports show that the UK research base is not only at the cutting edge of scientific and academic discovery, but also is doing more to translate this into practical wider benefits. This helps to keep us ahead in the global race.

Public Attitudes to Science (PAS) 2014 is the fifth in a series of studies looking at attitudes to science, scientists and science policy among the UK public.

Present redistribution of public knowledge offers only the illusion of transparency. For data to truly be free, librarians must look towards their audience as digital collaborators, rather than simply end users.

An analysis of the presence and possibilities of altmetrics for bibliometric and performance analysis is carried out.

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia.

Without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women. If ability is self-reported, women still are discriminated against, because employers do not fully account for men’s tendency to boast about performance.

Financial conflicts of interest may bias conclusions from systematic reviews on sugar-sweetened beverages consumption and weight gain or obesity.

EU more innovative but the differences between Member States are still high and diminish only slowly. The EU has closed half of the innovation gap towards the US.

Research Councils UK, the Wellcome Trust, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics worried about high open access fees charged by “hybrid” journals could refuse to pay fees above a set threshold, a report suggests.

The non-rivalness of scientific knowledge has traditionally underpinned its status as a public good. This publication models science as a contribution game in which spillovers differentially benefit contributors over non-contributors.

The assessment of scientific merit and individuals has a long and respectable history which has been demonstrated in numerous methods and models utilizing different data sources and approaches.

This book will give researchers, scientists, decision makers, politicians, and stakeholders an overview on the basics, the tools, and the vision behind the current changes we see in the field of knowledge creation.

This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers.

New research from the London School of Economics and Political Science shows that universities across the world actually benefit during recessions.

A biennial volume providing a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.

Survey on 40 research questions amongst science policy makers suggests that participatory exercises can establish priorities to guide funders of research.

Securing our future prosperity, by The Royal Society

An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs.

Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.

A report prepared by Elsevier for the UK's department of business, innovation and skills (BIS).

1. Give all scientists an annual, unconditional fixed amount of funding to conduct their research. 2. All funded scientists are obliged to donate a fixed percentage of all of the funding that they previously received to other researchers: the funding circulates through the community, converging on researchers that are expected to make the best use of it.