Troubling narrative: the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and sufficient reason to knowingly behave in an antisocial way, just as long as one first acknowledges the existence of those perverse incentives.
We fear and yearn for "the singularity." But it will probably never come.
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
We hope that the scale and reach of the Covid-19 pandemic will realise sustained change in the research culture, with openness and collaboration firmly embedded.
The pandemic is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.
President and lawmakers push proposals to add technology directorate and boost budget.
This author asks: Can scientists who are so meticulous in preparing their papers and so generous with their time in reviewing them for free not find better ways to advance science than relying on profiteering journals?
The Baltimore plant that recently had to scrap up to 15 million ruined doses had flouted rules and downplayed errors, according to internal audits, ex-employees and clients. Other doses had to be scrapped last year.
Study finds 34% developed psychiatric or neurological conditions after six months.
The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and tracks the vaccine rollouts around the world.
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations-CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS-have a joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.
The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
A treaty might help countries to prepare for the next pandemic - but first they must study what went wrong during this one.
As the National Institutes of Health begins implementing Trump-era guidelines, researchers voice concerns over transparency and racial profiling.
Analysis reveals three ways to boost green investment and achieve a resilient recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.
Peter Armstrong, 81, has been critical of management's financial competence and 'bullying' tactics
The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here's how it works.
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel industry reels from the global pandemic.
Unreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing this waste and increasing the value of scientific evidence require changing the actions of both individual researchers and the institutions they depend on for employment and promotion. While ecologists and evolutionary biologists have somewhat improved research transparency over the past decade (e.g. more data sharing), major obstacles remain. In this commentary, we lift our gaze to the horizon to imagine how researchers and institutions can clear the path towards more credible and effective research programmes.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
This special issue covers a diversity of topics on Chinese science, ranging from scientometric analyses to studies of the Chinese science system and research assessment in China.
Paper analyzes how research contributions are divided across research teams, focusing on the association between division of labor and number of authors, and authors’ position and specific contributions by using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).
To understand how money affects politics, we need to understand how money affects psychology.
