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Introducing the PID Graph

Introducing the PID Graph

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are not only important to uniquely identify a publication, dataset, or person, but the metadata for these persistent identifiers can provide unambiguous linking between persistent identifiers of the same type, e.g. journal articles citing other journal articles, or of different types, e.g. linking a researcher and the datasets they produced.

Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes

SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.

The Quest for More Value - Challenges of the Scientific Ecosystem in the Absence of Coordination: A Long Read

The Quest for More Value - Challenges of the Scientific Ecosystem in the Absence of Coordination: A Long Read

How can research produce more value in the absence of coordination? An opinion piece by Daniel Ropers, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature.

How Significant Are the Public Dimensions of Faculty Work?

How Significant Are the Public Dimensions of Faculty Work?

To understand how the public dimensions of faculty work are valued, we analyzed review, tenure and promotion documents from a representative sample of 129 Canadian and American universities.

Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

A digital scholarship librarian and a historian assembled a team of professors, graduate students, researchers, and fellows to create "Torn Apart / Separados", an interactive web site that visualizes the vast apparatus of immigration enforcement in the US, and broadly maps the shelters where children can be housed.

Why Hiring the ‘Best’ People Produces the Least Creative Results

Why Hiring the ‘Best’ People Produces the Least Creative Results

If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way. We must see the forest, thinks Scott Page collegiate professor of complex systems, and author of the book  book "The Diversity Bonus".

7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For

7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For

Nature seems to have a regular penchant for mocking scientists’ hopes and expectations.

A Bibliometric Model for Identifying Emerging Research Topics

A Bibliometric Model for Identifying Emerging Research Topics

A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence. 

Meta-Assessment of Bias in Science

Meta-Assessment of Bias in Science

Science is said to be suffering a reproducibility crisis caused by many biases. How common are these problems, across the wide diversity of research fields? We probed for multiple bias-related patterns in a large random sample of meta-analyses taken from all disciplines.

More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

More Surgeons Must Start Doing Basic Science

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

Blue Skies Research Funding Launched

Blue Skies Research Funding Launched

A new programme aimed at providing funding to Irish researchers involved in exploratory blue skies research has been launched.

‘Wavelet Revolution’ Pioneer Scoops Top Maths Award

‘Wavelet Revolution’ Pioneer Scoops Top Maths Award

Yves Meyer wins the Abel Prize for role in theory with data applications from digital cinema to pinpointing gravitational waves.