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Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.
How can science–society relations be better understood, evaluated, and improved by focusing on the organizations that typically interact in a specific domain of research.
Impact is increasingly important for science policy-makers. Science policy studies have reacted to this heightened urgency by studying these policy-interventions.
Scientists call on the EU to inshrine a legal right for researchers to share their research findings without restrictions.
In a victory for science and public health, a federal court determined that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot exclude scientists who have received EPA research grants - who happen to be mainly academic scientists from research universities - from serving on its advisory panels.
Standard reports paint a much rosier picture of the research landscape than may be warranted. In this analysis, the first hypothesis of standard articles reported was supported by the data 96% of the time, while that rate was only 44% in registered reports.
A physicist from Imperial College London is on a mission to bust what she calls the "big misconception" about scientists. Dr Jess Wade started to create and edit Wikipedia pages at the beginning of 2018 to "better represent women and people of colour" on the online encyclopedia. She's now amassed a portfolio of more than 900 new pages but says the project is about more than the numbers. Speaking to ITV News on International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Wade said: "Something magical can happen if you stumble across a profile that looks a bit like you. "You realise you could be like that too".
A joint statement calling on EU institutions to ensure the right of researchers to share their research findings without embargoes or restrictions has today been issued by the Young Academy of Europe and other organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe and beyond.
These are Martin Paul Eve's notes on The UKRI Open Access Review Consultation Document.
Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.
The conference will debate the role of the editor in supporting and promoting sustainable science, and ensuring diversity through stimulating plenary speakers, panel discussions and interactive sessions.
Long-running controversy had drawn extensive attention.
The president's new budget would cut more than $3 billion in global health programs.
New outbreak comes as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus struggles to raise more money, thwart Ebola, and fight health misinformation.
Medical sources in the city confirm rate of infection, but say they have been told not to release the full picture to the public.
Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.
The present outbreak of lower respiratory tract infections, including respiratory distress syndrome, is the third spillover, in only two decades, of an animal coronavirus to humans resulting in a major epidemic.
Altmetrics have been an important topic in the context of open science for some time.
The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.
White House proposes big cuts to NIH, DOE, NASA and other programs
This article elaborates on the role of research funding organizations in developing a FAIR funding model to support the FAIR research data management in the funding cycle.
This work aims to solve accessibility problems related to the protection of personal data in the digital era and to achieve a responsible access to and responsible use of health data. We strongly suggest associating each data set with FAIR metadata describing both the type of data collected and the accessibility conditions by considering data protection obligations and ethical and regulatory requirements.
In this special issue, the original conception of the FAIR data principles and what they are intended to cover is explained in detail.
For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world's largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers.
Curtin University researchers will help create a new international data trust to improve the measurement and analysis of open-access (OA) books.
Modelers are trying to forecast how the virus will move, but they need better data.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand is the first major government funding agency to use a lottery to allocate research funding for their Explorer Grant scheme. A recent survey examines how well the measure is accepted.
A new study found that Registered Reports are only about 50% as likely as standard, non-RR research to confirm their hypothesis.
