When making decisions about funding and jobs the scientific community should recognise that most of the tools used to evaluate scientific excellence are biased in favour of established disciplines and against interdisciplinary research.
Men are overrepresented in senior academic positions in Economics. What factors can explain this phenomenon, and how can we make the academic environment more inclusive?
Highly Cited Researchers in 2015 according to Thomson Reuters.
There has been no precedent for this kind of access in the history of scientific enterprise.
Whilst some scientists study insects, molecules, brains, or clouds, other scientists study science itself. Meta-research, or “research-on-research”, is a burgeoning discipline that investigates efficiency, quality, and bias in the scientific ecosystem.
Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.
The trend is indicative of a growing usage of general scientific jargon.
Scholarly publishers still do not meet researchers' needs. Doing so would require that they rethink existing businesses and organizational models.
Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.
The journal published guidelines on Thursday aimed at reducing scientific misconduct and at making studies easier to check and replicate.
Discussion about open-access publishing and the future of scientific communication and peer-review at the Open Science Summit 2012.
It is common practice for medical researchers to hoard results for months or years until research is published in an academic journal. Even then, the data underpinning a study are often not made public.
The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?
If 'money makes the world go round' then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule.
Scientific careers are built on recognition. It influences every stage of employment, from obtaining your first postdoc to landing an academic position or winning funding.
Beyond ideological boundaries, the Open Science movement should address the question of whether and, if so, under which framework conditions “closeness” can be appropriate in global, political crises. Openness must not be abused to place sanctions in global, political crises by closing open offers.
Universities and research organisations have joined forces to develop a new interactive tool that explores how free movement has affected EU economies and societies.
Making research evidence accessible and relevant to policymakers is one way that the scientific enterprise confers direct societal benefits.
6 arguments are presented that articulate why cOAlition S organisations will not financially support the hybrid model of publishing.
We need more transparency in how scientific knowledge is created and communicated, especially in the context of a pandemic where science should guide important decisions affecting millions of people.
Researchers have come up with a new method for measuring the impact of an innovation.
Nature announced the launch of its new journal: Scientific Data.
Data sharing rules are vague and institution-specific and permit researchers to erect obstacles that give them effective veto power over use of their data.
Most researchers don't intend to cite retracted papers, but it can have serious consequences for science.
