Peer Review: Rooting out Bias
Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.
Wellcome Trust wants research dreams to flourish
Director Jeremy Farrar on new plans to support more young scientists and ambitious projects, large and small.
DOE to Award $99 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences.
Is It Publish or Perish for PhD Students?
Nature Human Behaviour and the Behavioural and Social Sciences Community invite researchers across all career stages and disciplines to share their thoughts on publishing while training for a PhD. A broad selection of submissions will be published as World Views in Nature Human Behaviour or will be posted on the Behavioural and Social Sciences community page. Send us a short presubmission enquiry now!
Publishers Fail to Stem Tide of Illicit ResearchGate Uploads
Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show.
Viewpoint: Framework Programme 10 Needs a Balance of Basic and Applied Research
Viewpoint: Framework Programme 10 Needs a Balance of Basic and Applied Research
Leading academics defend EU research missions and say productivity growth should not be the direct goal of European investment in research and innovation.
Five Selfish Reasons to Work Reproducibly
Five Selfish Reasons to Work Reproducibly
And so, my fellow scientists: ask not what you can do for reproducibility; ask what reproducibility can do for you! Here, I present five reasons why working reproducibly pays off in the long run and is in the self-interest of every ambitious, career-oriented scientist.
Real peer to peer review
The Winnower is another open access online science publishing platform that employs open post-publication peer review, aiming to revolutionize science by breaking down the barriers to scientific communication through cost-effective and transparent publishing for scientists.
Rejected Article Tracking with the CrossRef API
Nothing burdens the heart of a journal editor more than rejecting an article. Partly, this is because you know you're giving someone…
Evaluating the Non-academic Impact of Academic Research
Evaluation of academic research plays a significant role in government efforts to steer public universities. The scope of such evaluation is now being extended to include the ‘relevance’ or ‘impact’ of academic research outside the academy. We address how evaluation of non-academic research impact can promote more such impact without undermining academic freedom and research excellence.
Could the Fourth Industrial Revolution Combat Inequality?
New technologies like artificial intelligence, self-driving vehicles and the internet of things could be used to reduce the widening economic gulf that is emerging in modern societies.
The mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor
Research must be reliable and publication is part of our quality control system. Scientific articles get reviewed by peers and they get screened by editors. Reviewers ideally help improve the project and its presentation, and editors ideally select the best papers to publish.
Working Group on Gender Balance
Women and men are equally able to perform excellent frontier research. This is the view of ERC Scientific Council. Each process within the ERC - from creating awareness about the ERC to signing of grant agreements – is designed to give equal opportunities to men and women. To monitor gender balance in ERC calls, in 2008, the ERC set up a dedicated working group.
Automatic Error Spotter Gains in Popularity
According to its developers, Statcheck gets it right in more than 95% of cases. Some outsiders still aren’t convinced.
STEM Is Vital, but Not at the Expense of the Humanities
The need to teach both music theory and string theory is a necessity for the economy to continue as the preeminent leader in technological innovation.
“No-Deal” Is a Bad Deal for Science
This factsheet of the Royal Society explains why leaving the EU with "no-deal" is a bad deal for science.
Attitudes of Referees in a Multidisciplinary Journal: An Empirical Analysis
Attitudes of Referees in a Multidisciplinary Journal: An Empirical Analysis
Paper finds that the disciplinary background and the academic status of the referee have an influence on their reviewing tasks. Articles that had been recommended by a multidisciplinary set of referees were found to receive subsequently more citations than those that had been reviewed by referees from the same discipline.
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.
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.
Universities Are Economic And Knowledge Engines - A Proposed 41% Cut In Alaska Is Scary
Uber for experiments
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
Launch of the Global Alliance of Open Access Scholarly Communication Platforms to Democratize Knowledge
Launch of the Global Alliance of Open Access Scholarly Communication Platforms to Democratize Knowledge
A new momentum is emerging in the dissemination of scientific knowledge worldwide. The GLOALL carries a vision to promote the development of multilingual scholarly communication standards, products and services.
Stop Submitting Papers
We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.
Who Owns Digital Science?
In analyzing the marketplace of scholarly publishers and scientific workflow providers, a key strategic question is: Who owns Digital Science?
Universities Show Their True Colours in Court
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.
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