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Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science

Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).

How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System

How to Shine in Indonesian Science? Game the System

Indonesia researchers have inflated their Indonesia’s Science and Technology Index (SINTA) score by publishing large numbers of papers in low-quality journals, citing their own work excessively, or forming networks of scientists who cited each other.

Life in the Lab

Life in the Lab

  So, there I was, pipette in hand, doing actual labwork for the first time in a year. How had it come to this? When I started out, I was convinced I was not going to be one of those PIs who is never in the lab.

Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

Large Scale Publisher Survey Reveals Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

A survey of publishers with journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals has revealed surprising trends in the way that content is published.

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

What It's Like to Be a Woman in the Academy

We asked dozens of women about gender and power on campus. Here’s what they told us.

When It Comes To Women In STEM Roles, The Results Are Golden

When It Comes To Women In STEM Roles, The Results Are Golden

Young women and girls look to Hollywood for inspiration and guidance, but how can we be sure movies and TV are positively representing women in STEM?

How Can Postdoctoral Researchers Engage with Policy? - Networks of Evidence and Expertise for Public Policy

How Can Postdoctoral Researchers Engage with Policy? - Networks of Evidence and Expertise for Public Policy

Workshop concludes that early-career researchers can make important contributions to policy decisions and experimenting with various forms of communication (i.e. opinion pieces, youtube channels, and tweeting at MPs) had the potential to improve knowledge transfer.

Welcome to The Great Acceleration

Welcome to The Great Acceleration

The author argues that the two biggest forces driving change in the scholarly communication landscape are consolidation and regulation. By consolidation, he means that there’s a now constant cycle of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the number of independent players in the market. By regulation, we’re talking about the increasing number of rules and the compliance burden being put on researchers.

New ERC Vice Presidents and Scientific Council Members Appointed

New ERC Vice Presidents and Scientific Council Members Appointed

Three new members of the European Research Council (ERC)'s governing body, the Scientific Council, have been appointed by the European Commission. The Scientific Council annonced two new ERC Vice Presidents.

A Lexicon for Gender Bias in Academia and Medicine

A Lexicon for Gender Bias in Academia and Medicine

Mansplaining is the tip of the iceberg Many of the experiences of women in the workforce are so patterned and commonplace they have spawned an emerging vocabulary, which includes terms like mansplaining (explaining something in a condescending or patronising way, typically to a woman), bropropriation (when a man takes credit for a woman's idea), manel (a panel of speakers populated entirely by men), and himpathy (the "inappropriate and disproportionate sympathy powerful men often enjoy in cases of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, homicide, and other misogynistic behavior"). Here, we propose a number of additions to the vernacular, which are likely to remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

It's Not a Replication Crisis. It's an Innovation Opportunity

It's Not a Replication Crisis. It's an Innovation Opportunity

Australian cancer researcher Glenn Begley who raised attention to the fact that many published scientific findings cannot be reproduced ,says that he never described it as a replication crisis, beacuse if one takes the funding from the lazy scientists and give it to really good scientists, it is an innovation opportunity. 

 

Making Magic Happen: Implementing and Contributing Data Citations in Support of Today's Scholarship

Making Magic Happen: Implementing and Contributing Data Citations in Support of Today's Scholarship

If we believe data should be valued like other research outputs, we must take action to achieve this. Supporting the open data movement means providing proper support for data citations.

Are the Nobel Prizes Good for Science?

Are the Nobel Prizes Good for Science?

Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress.

Changing Demographics of Scientific Careers: The Rise of the Temporary Workforce

Changing Demographics of Scientific Careers: The Rise of the Temporary Workforce

Contemporary science has been characterized by an exponential growth in publications and a rise of team science. At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of awarded PhD degrees, which has not been accompanied by a similar expansion in the number of academic positions.