One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.
Although researchers have relied on international resources such as the Protein Data Bank and Flybase for decades, the current system is unsustainable because it is largely funded by short-term grants.
The decision by The Review of Higher Education, a highly respected academic journal, to temporarily suspend submissions due to a backlog of more than two years’ worth of articles awaiting reviews or publication set off a twitter storm and much debate in the corridors of academia about the future of academic publishing, and in particular its very foundation, blind peer review.
A European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researchers are evaluated by their peers and by institutions, and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enhanced.
A European professor and journal editor argues that the use of AI in peer review could hamper scientific advancement.
In this Policy Forum, Cong Cao and Richard P. Suttmeier highlight the immense work and challenges China will encounter as it attempts to reform its scientific and technological development strategy.
Stencila launches the first version of its word processor and spreadsheet editor designed for researchers.
John Holdren worries that immigration restrictions could harm researchers' ability to collaborate across borders.
Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken, according to Randy W. Schekman who has declared a boycott on the publications.
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
Academic funding agencies should support research in unfashionable fields; a letter to David Cameron.
An editorial argues that data sharing can cripple scientific progress and harm patients, but there are myriad flaws with that reasoning.
CiteSpace cascading citation expansion has the potential to improve our understanding of the structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge.
Encourage girls to explore scientific career paths.
Economics is highly parochial: there were more papers focused on the United States than on Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa combined.
Currently, there is no record of previous submission of a paper to other journals and the comments it might have received in the journey to the final publication. A paper that might have been rejected by three or four journals goes into press, and people hear about the results without any of the background scientific debate and conversation that led to this publicatio.
The Parliament voted in favor of almost all provisions that extend more rights to the establishment copyright industries while failing to protect users and new creators online.
A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.
Meta, a data science company, has been acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose aim is to accelerate the pace of scientific advances.
Academic publishers have some of the highest profit margins in the world. In the digital age, researchers are starting to wonder whether publishers actually deserve this much money.
Over the past year, Jonathan Eisen's reading habits have changed dramatically. For most of the past 2 decades, he has kept up with scientific literature primarily by combing PubMed. But these days Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, discovers research relevant to his own work without even looking for it.
Open access publishing that permits commercial reuse enables the kinds of public-private partnerships that are essential to scientific innovation.
The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organisations, from art history to zoology. But what does “excellence” mean? Does it in fact mean anything at all? And is the pervasive narrative of excellence and competition a good thing?
After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”
“”Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
re3data.org presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org aims to promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.
REF should be central to solving the collective action problems around openness, transparency, and accountability in research.
