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The validation of peer review through research impact measures

The validation of peer review through research impact measures

The number of funded applications per year was found to correlate well with total annual citation impact, suggesting that improving funding success rates by reducing the size of awards may be an efficient funding strategy to optimize the scientific impact of research program portfolios.

ERC Workshop on Research Data Management and Sharing

ERC Workshop on Research Data Management and Sharing

Exploring the topic together with ERC grantees and other researchers, with representatives from funding bodies, universities and other research performers, with publishers, policy makers and other interested parties.

Understanding the path dependancy of academic publishing

Understanding the path dependancy of academic publishing

Did you ever wonder why it says QWERTY up on the left of your keyboard? And what does it have to do with academic publishing?

Scientists and the social network

Scientists and the social network

Giant academic social networks have taken off to a degree that no one expected even a few years ago. A Nature survey explores why.

How did Lego become a gender battleground?

How did Lego become a gender battleground?

A palaeontologist, an astronomer, a chemist - into the pantheon of children's toys stride three new Lego characters. Not so surprising. Except the scientists are all female.

OA explained in 8 mins

OA explained in 8 mins

What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.

Unintentional hipster faculty

Unintentional hipster faculty

Graduate students today fall squarely in the millennial generation, which means we're steeped in hipster culture. Readers of a certain age may still associate hipsters with aficionados of 1940s bebop.

What lesson do rising retraction rates hold for peer review?

What lesson do rising retraction rates hold for peer review?

The rate of retractions of scientific papers has been growing over the past decade, suggestive to some of a crisis of confidence in science. Can we no longer trust the scientific literature?

How infographics can enhance the promotion of your published material

How infographics can enhance the promotion of your published material

One of the greatest things about infographics is their efficiency. Wherever there is data, an idea, or story to tell; an infographic can be used to enhance the reader's understanding - and retention - of the information being presented.

Real peer to peer review

Real peer to peer review

The Winnower is another open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review, aiming to revolutionize science by breaking down the barriers to scientific communication through cost-effective and transparent publishing for scientists.

College degrees awarded per capita in the U.S.

College degrees awarded per capita in the U.S.

There is incredibly intense competition for an academic faculty job even with such a small set of qualified candidates. After 23 years, the U.S. is producing twice as many Master’s degrees per capita than they used to.

Elsevier, Springer und Thieme verklagen ETH-Bibliothek und bekommen Recht

Elsevier, Springer und Thieme verklagen ETH-Bibliothek und bekommen Recht

Schon seit 2012 weiss man, dass von Elsevier, Springer und Thieme Klage gegen den Dokumentlieferdienst der ETH-Bibliothek eingereicht wurde. Wie es aber weiterging war aber weitgehend unklar. Am 7. April 2014 fand am Handelsgericht des Kanton Zürich die Gerichtsverhandlung statt.

How to make government data sites better

How to make government data sites better

Accessing government data from the source is frustrating. If you've done it, or at least tried to, you know the pain that is oddly formatted files, search that doesn't work, and annotation that tells you nothing about the data in front of you.

Hate the peer-review process? Einstein did too

Hate the peer-review process? Einstein did too

Most academic papers today are published only after some academic peers have had a chance to review the merits and limitations of the work. This seems like a good idea, but there is a growing movement that wants to retort as Albert Einstein did to such a review process.