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Funders Launch Curation Awards for Learned Societies
Up to £200,000 per society available for flagging important biomedical research outputs.
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.
Chinese Universities Are Enshrining Communist Party Control In Their Charters
Chinese Universities Are Enshrining Communist Party Control In Their Charters
China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Putin Wanted Russian Science to Top the World. Then a Huge Academic Scandal Blew Up.
Putin Wanted Russian Science to Top the World. Then a Huge Academic Scandal Blew Up.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
Scholarly Publishers Are Happy To Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them
Scholarly Publishers Are Happy To Give Stuff Away If Someone Pays Them
The open-access era seems to be arriving for academic research, but it looks as if big publishers will still profit.
Universities Ignore Growing Concern over Sci-Hub Cyber Risk
Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.
The Data Science Revolution: An Interview with Xiao-Li Meng
An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching - and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.
How Scientists Are Coping with 'ecological Grief'
Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.
Learned Societies Turn Against Scholarship and Join Publishers for Profit
In a recent letter to the White House, a group of corporate publishers and scholarly organizations implore the president to leave intact…
Lancet Editor-in-chief Calls for 'activist' Journals
Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit 'passively waiting' for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Meteorite or Volcano? New Clues to the Dinosaurs' Demise
Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.
Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research
This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.
Working Together Towards Reproducibililty
Oxford initiative aims to link people and disciplines, say Laura Fortunato and Dorothy Bishop.
Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli
Universities Must Overhaul the Toxic Working Culture for Academic Researchers | Anton Muscatelli
A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment
China is Closing Gap with United States on Research Spending
The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.
Global Problems Need Social Science
Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade.
Registered Reports Are Coming to PLOS ONE
PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.
Innovation Leaders 2020: Introducing the Cohort
We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.
Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services
Recommendations for Transparent Communication of Open Access Prices and Services
An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services.
Orderly Desk, Orderly Mind
Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work in
Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.
Tracking Self-Citations in Academic Publishing
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based changes are necessary to ensure that the data yields an accurate picture. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations.
Academics Must Balance Privacy and Honesty to Become Great Role Models
Diversity initiatives applaud role models but academics who are carers can have trouble relinquishing family privacy to share their experiences.
FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law
FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law
Science investigation of ClinicalTrials.gov reveals that federal promises to enforce trial transparency have been ineffective.