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The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own indicator, RG Score, for its members. The high profile nature of the site means that the RG Score may be used for recruitment, promotion
Explore the universities with the highest percentage of international students.
An unknown number of published studies have a hidden flaw: The “peers” who supposedly vouched for their publication are phonies.
"When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful, it’s great luck, and let him thank God."
For years, there was no overview of what the total amount being paid for journal subscriptions was per institute or on a national level.
Study suggesting that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors’ practices.
You've accepted an invitation to review a research article. Here's some step by step guidance for how to do it right.
Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall's 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and "Science Kardashians" - scientists with a high Twitter-follower-to-citation ratio.
Preprints are receiving welcome attention these days for being an integral part of research communication. We announce that starting this week researchers will be able to directly submit their manuscripts to PeerJ for peer review from the popular preprint server bioRxiv.
Contributing to science is no easy endeavor.
New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service -- to their possible professional detriment.
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
As machine learning surpasses human intelligence, where does that leave us? This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about the exciting — and terrifying — future of human-robot collaboration.
Contribution to the public debate on the “replication crisis” / “Replicability essentially touches on the quality of research and concerns all of science”.
In Canada, as in many other countries, there is an expectation that universities, the producers of the research, will advance innovation by starting up companies and by filing and licensing patents.
Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.
Applicants for the Waterman will get more time to demonstrate excellence.
Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.
The Broad Institute draws NIH funding to subsidize dozens of basic research projects, many of them conducted with commercial partners. But it is the Broad’s handling of its own CRISPR business and partnerships that threaten to undermine its nonprofit mission.
Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe.
Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.
Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.
