Changing winds in science funding
Bias can taint scientific research, as conclusions are sensitive to the conscious and unconscious choices scientists make in study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
When Science Discourages Correction: How Publishers Profit from Mistakes
Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
Of Mythical Beasts and Zero-Embargo Mandates | Advancing Discovery | Springer Nature
Of Mythical Beasts and Zero-Embargo Mandates | Advancing Discovery | Springer Nature
Last year, everyone in U.S. academic publishing had strong opinions about a mythical beast that all had heard about but none had actually seen: a rumored Executive Order from the White House Office of Science and Technology that would mandate immediate public availability of research results by federally-funded authors.
Nobel Prize-winning Scientist Frances Arnold Retracts Paper
A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
Discrimination starts even before grad school, study finds
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
Impact beyond the impact factor
The journal impact factor is an annually calculated number for each scientific journal, based on the average number of times its articles published in the two preceding years have been cited.
Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.
Doctors and Postdocs in Political Science in Switzerland. A Study Conducted by the Swiss Political Science Association.
This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.
What Is Life Science?
If you're working on a research project in biology, you'll need citations in the life sciences. But what is life science? Here's a guide for researchers.
Predicting scientific success based on coauthorship networks
Paper challenging the perception of citations as an objective, socially unbiased measure of scientific success.
Climate Change Fears Propel Scientists out of the Lab and into the Streets
It's hard to know just how many scientists have turned to activism in the last few years. But many researchers say they've noticed a change.
Engaging With Policymakers
Roughly 90% of researchers in a recent survey said scientists and policymakers don't communicate enough. But, only about 60% said they were sure of the names of their elected federal representatives.
Funding Radar: Switzerland launches call for solution-oriented development research
Funding Radar: Switzerland launches call for solution-oriented development research
Swiss teams, researchers from developing countries, and eligible European partners invited to bid
How the Academic Publishing Oligopoly Skews Debates on the Cost of Publishing
We should be nurturing the kinds of publishing cultures we want to see: those that value the labour needed to care for publishing and that work in harmony with research communities rather than extract from them, argues Samuel Moore.
Scientists Urge China to Quickly Share Data on Virus Linked to Pneumonia Outbreak
Scientists Urge China to Quickly Share Data on Virus Linked to Pneumonia Outbreak
Chinese researchers say a novel coronavirus likely sickened 59 people in Wuhan.
A Longitude Prize for the twenty-first century
The UK Government’s new prize for substantial innovation to address pressing societal problems should be welcomed, says Martin Rees.
Arctic Scientists 'feel Pretty Uncomfortable' on Greenland
Arctic Scientists 'feel Pretty Uncomfortable' on Greenland
Science in the Arctic - and Greenland - is on the frontline of pressing challenges facing humanity, like climate change and genetics. Some researchers worry international collaboration is at risk.
Competitive research grants and their impact on career performance
The role of competitive funds as a source of funding for academic research has increased in many countries. For the individual researcher, the receipt of a grant can influence both scientific production and career paths.
How to Tackle Academic Misconduct Among China's Top Scientists
Preventing unethical behaviour requires regulatory and institutional reforms, as well as lead researchers remaining close to work done in their name, says Futao Huang
Euroskeptic surge rocks E.U. elections
“A greater number of Europhobic members … in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy” says Jean-Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France.
UK ‘could lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities
Tracking Self-Citations in Academic Publishing
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based changes are necessary to ensure that the data yields an accurate picture. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations.
Twitter to release all tweets to scientists
Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
Peer reviewers urged to speak their minds
Controversial model points to benefits of more opinionated reviews.
Atlas of Open Science and Research in Finland 2019 Published
This evaluation of Finnish research organisations, research-funding organisations, academic and cultural institutes abroad and learned societies and academies examines the key indicators chosen to assess the performance on openness. Key indicators are used to provide some insights on the competences and capacity of the research system in supporting progress towards openness. Barriers and development needs are discussed, with suggestions for improvement.
Call to Action to the Tech Community on New Machine Readable COVID-19 Dataset
Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Coronavirus group.
Acumen
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.
In the Coronavirus Pandemic, We're Making Decisions Without Reliable Data
Countermeasures like social distancing may help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm? Data!
Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
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.
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