On Moose and Medians
If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?
Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs
Limited institutional resources mean that single parents often need a network of support to further their scientific careers.
Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Building the Last Mile: A Plan for Bringing the Expanding Universe of Digital Primary Sources into Classrooms
Getting digitized primary source materials into the classroom requires an open dialogue among researchers, teachers, and archivists. A workshop from historians of business shows how.
China Cracks Down on Fake Data in Drug Trials
Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency.
Statement on National Academies Sexual Harassment Study
As a major funder of this report, NSF emphasizes its commitment to a more inclusive STEM culture and climate - one free of harassment.
What are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
At ScienceOpen, we have over 28 million article records all available for public, post-publication peer review (PPPR), 3 million of which are full-text Open Access. But is there anything we can do to increase its usage and adoption as part of a more open research culture?
"We're Negotiating Open Access"
The Swiss universities are negotiating with the world’s three largest scientific publishers for fair – in other words affordable – terms of access. Michael Hengartner, president of swissuniversities and UZH, explains the background.
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.
Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World - The Scholarly Kitchen
Liz Bal from Jisc discusses the scholarly publishing lessons learned from COVID-19, and how they can be applied to make research communication more efficient and effective.
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.
Calculus Is So Last Century
Tianhui Michael Li and Allison Bishop write about the overemphasis on calculus in high school and college math courses. Statistics, linear algebra and algorithmic thinking are more valuable in the digital age.
Peer Review: Correspondence by Relationship at the Royal Society
Discover enlightening reports about some of the most famous scientific papers, or read famous scientists considering the work of their peers.
The focus on bibliometrics makes papers less useful
Forcing research to fit the mould of high-impact journals weakens it. Hiring decisions should be based on merit, not impact factor.
Portugal Approaches Gender Parity in Research
Women represent nearly 50% of active scientific authors in Portugal. Over the past two decades, the country achieved the largest percentage increase in the EU in women's representation - an impressive nine percentage points, putting Portugal at the leading edge of closing the gender gap in research.
Data Sharing Can Offer Help in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story
Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.
Unpaywall Finds Free Versions of Paywalled Papers
New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.
Who Reads Science Blogs? The Results are In.
Who reads science blogs, and why? This broad question started this Experiment.com project, and now the results are in.
Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths
Maryam Mirzakhani is among four young researchers to win Fields Medals, awarded every four years.
Trends for Open Access to Publications
European Commission data and case studies covering access to scientific publications. Bibliometric data as well as well as data on the policies of journals and funders are available.
Science in North Korea: How Easing the Nuclear Stand-Off Might Bolster Research
The isolated nation publishes fewer than 100 scholarly articles a year - but as political tensions thaw, researchers hope for greater collaboration.
What if universities had to agree to refund grants whenever there was a retraction?
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
If scientists want to influence policymaking, they need to understand it
Turning scientific evidence into policy exposes a gulf between how scientists think and how policymakers work. Here’s what scientists need to know
Five Ways to Ensure Flood-risk Research Helps the Most Vulnerable
Studies are skewed towards resilient places and people: improve data, metrics, inclusion and more.
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