Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.
The Guardian view on the end of the peer review
Nature, the pre-eminent journal for reporting scientific research, has had to retract two papers it published in January after mistakes were spotted in the figures, some of the methods descriptions were found to be plagiarised and early attempts to replicate the work failed.
Funders Support Use of Reviewed Preprints in Research Assessment
Funders and other research organisations are embracing reviewed preprints as an alternative way to assess researchers, and call on others to do the same.
Will Paris Succeed? Research Assesses if Governments Will Make Pledges a Reality
Will Paris Succeed? Research Assesses if Governments Will Make Pledges a Reality
A new study provide scientific evidence assessing how effective governments will be at implementing their commitments to the agreement that will reduce CO2 emissions causing climate change.
Britain Offers £1bn a Year to Stay in the EU’s Science Club
Britain will offer to keep paying more than £1 billion a year to the EU after Brexit to continue to participate in its science and research programmes.
A Scientist For President
If elected, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo would bring an extensive background in science and engineering to Mexico’s presidency. But many researchers are anxious about how she would govern.
Uber for experiments
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
ETH Zurich Opens New Research Centre to Explore the Origins of Life
ETH Zurich is opening a new research and teaching centre with a focus on exploring the origin and prevalence of life on Earth and beyond. Under the leadership of Noble Laureate, Didier Queloz, more than 40 research groups from five departments will address the big questions posed by humankind.
If These Data Could Talk
Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.
Science is Changing, Can I Change Too?
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review
5 Steps to Writing a Winning Post-Publication Review
We’re celebrating post-publication reviewers this Peer Review Week - find out why, and learn tips on how to write a winning review
eLife Introduces the Global South Committee for Open Science
New model aims to learn directly from peers in the Global South on how best to promote equitable collaboration and inclusion in scientific publishing.
The Most Compelling Science Graphics of 2022
From COVID to space exploration, graphics helped tell some the year’s most important stories
Climate scientists are becoming climate activists as governments fail to heed warnings
Relative Citation Ratio - A Leap Forward in Research Metrics
There is no perfect metric. There is no number or score which fully encapsulates the value, impact, or importance of a piece of research. While this statement might appear obvious, research evaluation and measurement are a fact of life for the scientific research community.
President Trump's War on Science
The White House and its lackeys in certain federal agencies are censoring scientific inquiry that could inform the public and government policy.
Boon or burden: what has the EU ever done for science?
More than 500 million people and 28 nations make up the European Union. It will lose one of its richest, most populous members, if the United Kingdom votes to leave on 23 June. Ahead of a possible ‘Brexit’, Nature examines five core ways that the EU shapes the course of research.
Embrace Open Science Before It's Too Late
A UNESCO report laments the lack of progress in making science more collaborative. Greater awareness could aid efforts to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
10 Frontiers Articles That Caught the World's Attention in 2022 - Science & Research News
10 Frontiers Articles That Caught the World's Attention in 2022 - Science & Research News
By Frontiers' science writers As part of Frontiers' passion to make science available to all, we highlight just a small selection of the most fascinating research published with us each month to help inspire current and future researchers to achieve their research dreams. 2022 was no different, and saw many game-changing discoveries contribute to the
The Attack of Zombie Science
They look like scientific papers. But they're distorting and killing science.
Science in the age of selfies
A time traveler from 1915 arriving in 1965 would have been astonished by the scientific theories and engineering technologies invented during that half century. One can only speculate, but it seems likely that few of the major advances that emerged during those 50 years were even remotely foreseeable in 1915.
A one-grant limit: NIH institute puts squeeze on flush investigators
Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.
DORA's new "JIF-Less" Assessment Web Site
DORA is calling for the scientific community to contribute fresh JIF-less examples to the new DORA web page. Some procedures collected to date will affect scientists applying for positions at Europe's leading EMBO in Germany, at the NSF and at the NIH.
Winners of 27 European Research Council Grants Leave the UK and Switzerland Because of Horizon Europe Impasse
Winners of 27 European Research Council Grants Leave the UK and Switzerland Because of Horizon Europe Impasse
Of 174 UK-based ERC grant winners 23, or around one in eight, have decided to relocate, while only four of 66 researchers based in Switzerland did so.
The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing Begins
Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress - an intense researchfest about "enhancing the quality and credibility of science".
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