Bibliometrics has become an integral part of research quality evaluation and has been changing the practice of research.

Proceedings of participant-driven workshops and the organizers’ synthesis of the outcomes of a recent symposium for early career researchers.

Universities’ performance worldwide is increasingly being measured using rankings. This project is the first pan-European study of the impact and influence of rankings on European higher education institutions.

On the legitimacy of Peer Review and transparency policies at funding agencies.

A playlist of all videos from OpenCon 2014, the Student and Early Career Conference on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data.

Everyone knows the peer review system is broken, but it’s difficult to break free of when incentives are aligned to maintain it.

CASRAI is an international non-profit dedicated to reducing the administrative burden on researchers and improving business intelligence capacity of research institutions and funders.

Sneak peek into science’s future at OpenCon 2014.

Publishing in high-impact-factor journals is commonly seen as a requirement for getting fellowships, faculty appointments, tenure, and funding. Most academics are wrong about this.

The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business.

Open science is the concept of opening up all aspects of scientific research, to allow others to follow the process.

A short essay about the new trends in science policy, communication, and public outreach.

The study aims to shed light on international collaboration by researchers from the Eastern European countries

A report of the President’s Science and Technology Advisory Council.

When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.

As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need.

Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.

Celebrating Open Access Week 2014 affords an opportunity to study and promote all aspects of ‘Open.’

“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."

New ways to help the Science Lab community build tools and solve problems together.

Intransparenz bei den Bibliotheksausgaben von Schweizer Hochschulen

A survey requested by the European Commission.

14th November 2014, London

October 24-26, London

November 12-14, EMBL Heidelberg

The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.

Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.

How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.

Comparing Intra-EU and U.S. Mobility

This paper provides useful insights for the design of networks that promote research productivity. Overall, dense networks negatively affect the creation of new knowledge. In addition, the analysis shows that a division of labor in academia, in the sense of interdisciplinary research, increases the productivity of researchers. It is also found that the position in a network is critical. Researchers who are central tend to create more knowledge.