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Impact

Impact beyond the impact factor

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Impact

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.

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COVID-19
Africa
Integrity

Scientists Sharing Omicron Data Were Heroic. Let's Ensure They Don't Regret It

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COVID-19
Africa
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Scientists Sharing Omicron Data Were Heroic. Let's Ensure They Don't Regret It

The teams in Africa who detected the new Covid genome moved quickly. Their actions should not result in economic loss.

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Impact

The Promise of Impact Science

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Impact

The Promise of Impact Science

Imagine if nonprofit leaders, philanthropists, and policy makers no longer had to guess what works but could predict success with scientific certainty. Enter the field of impact science.

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Science Communication
Climate

Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition

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Science Communication
Climate

Better Science Communication is Needed to Deliver the Green Transition

To deliver the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, researchers must rethink funding, global cooperation and how they communicate with policymakers. 

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Metrics

On Moose and Medians

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Metrics

On Moose and Medians

If Thomson Reuters can calculate Impact Factors and Eigenfactors, why can’t they deliver a simple median score?

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Funding
Switzerland

70 Years of the SNSF: from a Few Million to a Billion

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Switzerland

70 Years of the SNSF: from a Few Million to a Billion

The SNSF has been awarding grants to research projects across all scientific disciplines since 1952. How has the amount of funding evolved over time?

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Careers

Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs

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Careers

Lab life: Lone-parent scientist : Naturejobs

Limited institutional resources mean that single parents often need a network of support to further their scientific careers.

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Transparency
Methods

12 Recommendations To Protect the Integrity of Survey Research

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Transparency
Methods

12 Recommendations To Protect the Integrity of Survey Research

Science requires data, and survey research is one important means of gathering it. Surveys provide a scientific way of acquiring information that is used to inform policy decisions, guide political campaigns, clarify the needs of stakeholders, enhance customer service, help society understand itself

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Early Career Researchers
Ukraine

Ukraine Needs New Doctoral Schools or Risks Losing Generation of Scholars, Official Warns

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Early Career Researchers
Ukraine

Ukraine Needs New Doctoral Schools or Risks Losing Generation of Scholars, Official Warns

Ukraine urgently needs new doctoral schools to train its next generation of academics, according to a senior Ukrainian science administrator. He warned that, without that and other measures to stop "internal brain drain", many researchers are fleeing universities for better paid IT jobs in order to make ends meet. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, European countries have launched countless schemes and scholarships to help displaced Ukrainian students and academics.

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COVID-19
Open Access

No Revolution: COVID-19 Boosted Open Access, but Preprints Are Only a Fraction of Pandemic Papers

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COVID-19
Open Access

No Revolution: COVID-19 Boosted Open Access, but Preprints Are Only a Fraction of Pandemic Papers

Critics of scientific publishing had hoped for a bigger shake-up from the global crisis.

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Reproducibility

Science's shameful secret

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Reproducibility

Science's shameful secret

At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?

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Opinion
Open Science

Open Science is Facing Headwinds

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Open Science

Open Science is Facing Headwinds

Within the scientific community, the words "open science" have been on everyone's lips in recent years. Open science entails a great promise of a democracy of knowledge, and it is considered to be a universally good thing. 

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Governance
Integrity
China

Chinese Academics Are Becoming a Force for Good Governance

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Governance
Integrity
China

Chinese Academics Are Becoming a Force for Good Governance

In response to controversies such as gene-edited babies, Chinese researchers have become adept at shaping policy for responsible research.
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UK
Society
Academia

What Has Happened to College Teacher Pay in England?

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Work Place
UK
Society
Academia

What Has Happened to College Teacher Pay in England?

In the last few months, there has been a series of strikes by teachers in further education colleges across England over pay and conditions, and more strikes look set to impact the post-16 education sector this year. This report examines how pay and retention levels among college teachers in England have changed over time and compared with school teachers.

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COVID-19

How Bad is Omicron? What Scientists Know So Far

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How Bad is Omicron? What Scientists Know So Far

COVID researchers are working at breakneck speed to learn about the variant's transmissibility, severity and ability to evade vaccines.

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Policy
Politics

How Scientists Can Inform Policy Decisions

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Politics

How Scientists Can Inform Policy Decisions

You might know what policymakers should know. That doesn't mean you know how to help them to use that information.

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Science Politics

Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape

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Science Politics

Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape

When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.

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Policy
Canada

Expect knowledge

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Policy
Canada

Expect knowledge

We are gratified when a politician shows that they know about science, but they all should.

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Education

Calculus Is So Last Century

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Education

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.

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International

Security Risks: How to Keep the Global Science System Open

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Security Risks: How to Keep the Global Science System Open

In an era of stricter securitisation of research, more thoughtfulness and better professional judgement may be required from global research.

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Transdisciplinary
SDG
Switzerland

Funding Radar: Switzerland launches call for solution-oriented development research

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Transdisciplinary
SDG
Switzerland

Funding Radar: Switzerland launches call for solution-oriented development research

Swiss teams, researchers from developing countries, and eligible European partners invited to bid

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Peer Review
Funding

Evaluation of Research Proposals by Peer Review Panels: Broader Panels for Broader Assessments?

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Peer Review
Funding

Evaluation of Research Proposals by Peer Review Panels: Broader Panels for Broader Assessments?

This exploratory observational study at two large biomedical and health research funders in the Netherlands provides insight into how scientific quality and societal relevance are discussed in panel meetings.

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Research
Careers

Careers: Tales of the Unexpected

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Careers

Careers: Tales of the Unexpected

A single event can completely change the direction of a career in science; four researchers share their stories.

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Gender
Prizes

Women Less Likely to Win Major Research Awards

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Gender
Prizes

Women Less Likely to Win Major Research Awards

Although the gap is narrowing, prestigious prizes are still more likely to go to men, finds an analysis of gender bias in the world's top science awards.

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Women in Science
Equality

When Aggression is Viewed As Brilliance, It Hurts Women in Science, and Science Itself

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Women in Science
Equality

When Aggression is Viewed As Brilliance, It Hurts Women in Science, and Science Itself

Tearing down ideas is central to scientific practice, but when it bleeds into the interpersonal, science loses its humanity.

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AI
Social Media

A New Model Predicts Depression and Anxiety Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media

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Social Media

A New Model Predicts Depression and Anxiety Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media

Utilizing data from Twitter and applying natural language processing artificial intelligence algorithms, researchers created a new, accurate prediction model for depression and anxiety.

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US to Push 'Democracy-Affirming Technology' with Prizes and Research Projects

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US to Push 'Democracy-Affirming Technology' with Prizes and Research Projects

The US is set to fund prizes, challenges and research projects to create so-called "democracy affirming technologies" that allow open societies to reap the benefits of innovation without sacrificing privacy or accountability.

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Open Access

Chinese agencies announce open-access policies

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Open Access

Chinese agencies announce open-access policies

Researchers will now be required to make papers free to read within one year of publication.

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Research Assessment

Agreement Reached on Research Assessment Reforms

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Research Assessment

Agreement Reached on Research Assessment Reforms

The document, which was facilitated by the European Commission, establishes new benchmarks regarding how research assessments should be performed.

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Science Diplomacy
Climate
Collaboration

Arctic Scientists 'feel Pretty Uncomfortable' on Greenland

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Science Diplomacy
Climate
Collaboration

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.

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