Wellcome Open Research: The Start of a New Journey
The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline.
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Disgraced Stem-Cell Entrepreneur Under Fresh Investigation
Davide Vannoni is barred from offering a controversial stem-cell therapy in Italy but may be continuing his work abroad.
In Bold New Step, Dutch Science Academy Holds Women-Only Elections
No male nominees will be accepted in two special election rounds that seek to address gender imbalance.
Winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
2016 winners include journalists from China, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Twitter Predicts Citation Rates of Ecological Research
Twitter activity is a more important predictor of citation rates than 5-year journal impact factor. Moreover, Twitter activity is not driven by journal impact factor; the ‘highest-impact’ journals were not necessarily the most discussed online.
Infographics on Research Integrity
The Office of Research Integrity shares a series of infographics addressing the Responsible Conduct of Research and the handling of research misconduct.
The Global University Employability Ranking 2016
The 150 best universities for delivering work-ready graduates
Robots Beat Academics in Research Challenge
A new study shows computers outshine real-life academics when performing some scholarly research tasks
Peer Review Is in Crisis, But Should Be Fixed, Not Abolished
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong Imbalance in the Collective Enterprise
The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong Imbalance in the Collective Enterprise
Mathematical model estimating the overall quantitative annual demand for peer review and the supply in biomedical research.
Science Disrupt London Sessions
Science is going through a revolution. The world of tech, startups, makers, innovators and collaborators are beginning to be welcomed in to the scientific ecosystem in a way never seen before. Science: Disrupt brings together the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science. Join us at Digital Science for our 4th Science Disrupt London Session to Disrupt the Lab!
What Scientists Should Focus on — and Fear — Under Trump
Nine experts reflect on where researchers should direct their efforts during the next US administration.
PhD Starter Kit – Preparing for Life in Academia
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
Semantic Scholar
An academic search engine that utilizes artificial intelligence methods to provide highly relevant results and novel tools to filter them with ease.
The Academic, Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access
While deceptive publishing remains an ongoing issue, particularly in the developing world, increasing public engagement, development of OA policies, and discussion of sustainable and ethical publishing practices can remove this potential threat.
Allen Institute for AI Eyes the Future of Scientific Search
A new search engine called Semantic Scholar helps academics deal with the increasingly enormous volume of academic research.
Authorea Acquires The Winnower
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
PLOS Releases an Open Data Collection
PLOS Releases an Open Data Collection
A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.
Transparent Peer Review One Year On
The majority of our authors are opting in to publish reviewer reports of their papers.
Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous Conclusions
Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous Conclusions
Researchers acting to maximise their fitness should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have only 10%–40% statistical power. As a result, half of the studies they publish will report erroneous conclusions. Current incentive structures are in conflict with maximising the scientific value of research; we suggest ways that the scientific ecosystem could be improved.
eLife Appoints New Head of Technology to Lead Open-Source Tool Development
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
A Computer Program Just Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era
A Computer Program Just Ranked the Most Influential Brain Scientists of the Modern Era
Semantic Scholar extends its reach to neuroscience, analyzing millions of science articles
Thomas Landrain Interview: Short-Circuiting Research
The story of La Paillasse: an open lab which aims to cut out the intermediaries and create a much more open way of doing research, enabling to fast-prototype solutions to scientific problems.
The Quiet Rise of the NIH’s Hot New Metric
Biomedical funders worldwide are adopting the US agency’s free Relative Citation Ratio to analyse grant outcomes.
Open Peer Review Finds More Takers
Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
A transition From Postdoc to Industry
Neuroscientist Ana Mingorance’s experience highlights some pointers for successfully making the move to industry.
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