What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality?
What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality?
The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?
Some things you need to know about Google Scholar
Google Scholar is great, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value.
Need a Paper? Get a Plug-In
A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable.
Research picks up pace
The crowdsourcing model of raising public funds online for individual projects is becoming a real possibility for medical and scientific research.
Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
Sci-Hub is facing millions of dollars in damages in a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, one of the largest academic publishers. As a result of the legal battle the site just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The High-Tech War on Science Fraud
The problem of fake data may go far deeper than scientists admit. Now a team of researchers has a controversial plan to root out the perpetrators
Report from the Expert Group of the European Commission
EU report urging a copyright law reform to help researchers text-mine research papers.
Plan for peer review based research funding opposed
A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.
To Steal or Not to Steal? Could Sci-Hub Change the Publishing Industry?
Elsevier, a major scientific publisher, has a 36 percent profit margin - bigger than Apple, Amazon, and Google. And it's just one of many. But Sci-Hub could change all that by releasing every article for free.
A well-connected world
The small but focused snapshot of research afforded by the Nature Index helps fine-tune analysis of global scientific collaboration.
Scientists Ride the Podcasting Wave
Podcasting can offer personal and professional benefits for researchers who want to dive in.
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.
Congrats young scientists, you face the worst research funding in 50 years
In an appearance before the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr. Francis Collins, head of NIH, offered a familiar warning to lawmakers considering future appropriations for scientific research.
Can tweets predict citations?
A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.
Improving Support for Young Biomedical Scientists
Three steps that could be taken by funding agencies to support young investigators in more constructive and effective ways: (1) greatly expand the use of the New Innovator/Starting Grants awards, (2) increase the funding of young investigators through requests for applications, and (3) experiment with separate competitions for Early Stage Investigators when awarding traditional investigator-initiated R01 grants.
Credit where credit is due
Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.
rOpenSci announces $2.9M award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust
rOpenSci, whose mission is to develop and maintain sustainable software tools that allow researchers to access, visualize, document, and publish open data on the Web, has been awarded a grant of nearly $2.9 million over 3 years from The Helmsley Charitable Trust.
Is Citizen Science the Future of Research or a Recipe for Bad Science?
Is Citizen Science the Future of Research or a Recipe for Bad Science?
Citizen science has the potential to make science and innovation more responsible, but it is not without controversy.
Using simplified peer review processes to fund research: a prospective study
Using simplified peer review processes to fund research: a prospective study
Simplified processes save time and money that could be reallocated to actual research. Funding agencies should consider streamlining their application processes.
The Public Disengagement With Science
The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.
Workshop held by the NRC last week
A workshop held by the National Research Council in the US addressed statistical challenges in assessing and fostering the reproducibility of scientific results by examining the extent of reproducibility, the causes of reproducibility failures, and potential remedies. Here's the program.
VizioMetrics
Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.
How long does it take to publish a paper?
The answer is - in our experience, at least - about 9 months. That's right, it takes about the same amount of time to have a baby as it does to publish a scientific paper.
New interactive visualizations of SNSF data
It is now easier to obtain a clear and transparent overview of the thousands of scientific research projects funded by the SNSF. Its P3 database has been redesigned to display information interactively.
Budget Chief Wants to Protect Research from Cuts in 2021-2027 Budget Cycle
Günther Oettinger says research should be the only programme spared spending cuts as the EU weighs how to make up for losing the UK’s €11B per annum contribution.