Nation prevented far more in medical spending and lost productivity than it spent on testing, buying & delivering the 2021 vaccines.
Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.
Agricultural engineering professor Ben Runkle has co-authored a report by leading ecosystem scientists and policy experts, calling for a scientific approach to nature-based climate solutions in the United States.
Artificial intelligence is helping to advance science, but it could also add to stress on the research system by generating ever more papers and grant applications, an AI expert at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned.
Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.
Apart from generally showing why political scientists publish more or less, this article specifically identifies accumulative advantage as the principal reason why women increasingly fall behind men over the course of their careers.
Citation metrics are widely used and misused. This Community Page article presents a publicly available database that provides standardized information on multiple citation indicators and a composite thereof, annotating each author according to his/her main scientific field(s).
As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.
Libraries and funding agencies are finally flexing their muscles against journal paywalls. Authors should follow suit.
Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.
University associations, legislators, students and other stakeholders release a declaration on ways to recruit and retain early-career researchers in academia.
On average, papers with an institutional e-mail address receive more citations than other ones.
Countries and universities are once again engaged in a war for talent over researchers, entrepreneurs and students as the world emerges in fits and starts from a pandemic-induced slowdown in international migration.
The Web has greatly reduced the barriers to entry for new journals and other platforms for communicating scientific output, and the number of journals continues to multiply. This leaves readers and authors with the daunting cognitive challenge of navigating the literature and discerning contributions that are both relevant and significant.
Some evidence showing that the more revisions a paper undergoes, the greater its subsequent recognition in terms of citation impact.
A few modest adjustments to the planning and delivery of talks can help scientists share ideas with their peers more effectively, say Scott St. George and Michael White.
The EU must respond by strengthening scientific links with “like-minded” countries, Signe Ratso says
There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.
Recognizing the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.
Swiss researchers who work in the US are having trouble keeping their bank accounts in Switzerland due to complications from long-standing tax evasion issues between the two countries.
Competition leads to more innovation but also to more unfair reviews and to a lower level of agreement between reviewers. Moreover, competition does not improve the average quality of published works.
The primary goal of research is to advance knowledge. For that knowledge to benefit research and society, it must be trustworthy. Trustworthy research is robust, rigorous and transparent at all stages of design, execution and reporting. The authors developed the Hong Kong Principles (HKP) with a specific focus on the need to drive research improvement through ensuring that researchers are explicitly recognized and rewarded for behavior that leads to trustworthy research.
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
An overview of the new rules to consider where scientific projects include the processing of personal data.
