Moderna Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Delayed, but July Start Still Possible
Investigators say the delay was prompted by changes to the trial plan, called a protocol, while stressing such changes are common.
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How Masks Went From Don't-Wear to Must-Have During the Coronavirus Pandemic
How Masks Went From Don't-Wear to Must-Have During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven't always succeeded.
Swissuniversities and Springer Nature Sign a New Open Access Agreement
swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement provides Swiss researchers with access to SpringerLink with over 2’000 Hybrid journals and enables authors affiliated with the Swiss academic and research institutions to publish their accepted research papers Open Access, making this primary research immediately and freely accessible from the point of publication.
Chemistry's Reproducibility Crisis That You've Probably Never Heard of
Chemistry's Reproducibility Crisis That You've Probably Never Heard of
Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers.
Government Fires Up R&D Across the Country to Cement the UK As Science Superpower
Government Fires Up R&D Across the Country to Cement the UK As Science Superpower
R&D Roadmap sets out vision to attract global talent, increase investment, cut unnecessary bureaucracy, and cement the UK as a world-leading science superpower.
Pfizer and BioNTech's First Vaccine Candidate
There is a preprint with data on the first coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Pfizer/BioNTech effort. This article argues that it's extremely important that the human trial data is made available for the public to trust the vaccines that get approved.
ODI Summit 2020 - The ODI
The Open Data Institute invites people from across the globe to join and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.
Inflated citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns: the GhoS(t)copus Project
Inflated citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns: the GhoS(t)copus Project
The citation count of journals discontinued for publication concerns increases despite discontinuation and predatory behaviors seemed common. This paradoxical trend can inflate scholars’ metrics prompting artificial career advancements, bonus systems and promotion. Countermeasures should be taken urgently to ensure the reliability of Scopus metrics both at the journal- and author-level for the purpose of scientific assessment of scholarly publishing.
How Scientific Research Reacts to International Public Health Emergencies
In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks.
The Trouble with Counting Alien Civilizations
You might imagine that in the midst of a global pandemic and all of its social and economic fallout that our minds would be laser-focused on immediate, Earthly woes.
Dutch on Board
The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.
Ten Years of the Sun in One Hour - Nasa Releases Mesmerising Space Film
The space agency gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, which have now been stitched together to form the video.
Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up
Publishers have had a good 355 years, but change is coming.
There Should Never Be Heroes in Science
Some scientists make their careers by criticising other's research. But who watches the watchmen?
Dinosaurs Wiped out by Asteroid, Not Volcanoes, Researchers Say
Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event.
Covid-19: Are Pandemics Becoming More Common?
Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.
A Webinar Series from Nature Careers to Help Scientists During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Panellists offer advice on productivity, parenting under lockdown and mental well-being, with more webcasts planned.
How to Get Away from Work Mode During the Coronavirus Lockdown
If your lab is still shuttered and work is a struggle, technology researcher Sun Sun Lim offers advice on how to switch off.
Major Indexing Service Sounds Alarm on Self-citations by Nearly 50 Journals
Are impact factors manipulated by a large-scale practice of self-citation?
The Sci-hub Effect: Sci-hub Downloads Lead to More Article Citations
This article examines how the number of downloads from Sci-hub as well as various characteristics of publications and their authors predicts future citations.
Mis-allocated Scrutiny
In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly?
The Condoms of the Face: Why Some Men Refuse to Wear Masks
It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative.
Open Economics: Study on Open Science Principles and Practice in Economics
There is wide agreement with the principles of Open Science in economics. This is shown by a ZBW study. However, there is still room for development regarding the implementation of Open Science on a b
Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks
Systematic Inequality and Hierarchy in Faculty Hiring Networks
The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories among scientists and institutions. However, a quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Using a simple technique to extract the institutional prestige ranking that best explains an observed faculty hiring network-who hires whose graduates as faculty-we present and analyze comprehensive placement data on nearly 19,000 regular faculty in three disparate disciplines. Across disciplines, we find that faculty hiring follows a common and steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality. Furthermore, doctoral prestige alone better predicts ultimate placement than a U.S. News & World Report rank, women generally place worse than men, and increased institutional prestige leads to increased faculty production, better faculty placement, and a more influential position within the discipline. These results advance our ability to quantify the influence of prestige in academia and shed new light on the academic system.
The Bailout Part II: New Government Schemes Announced to Stabilise University Research
Ex-ERC Head Loses Paper over Image Duplication
Science Advances article on diabetes drug co-authored by Mauro Ferrari retracted after readers spot irregularities
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