An intelligent machine learning framework for scientific evaluation of researchers may help decision makers to better allocate the available funding to the distinguished scientists through providing fair comparative results, regardless of the career age of the researchers.
While 18,000 retractions may sound like a lot, that amount is clearly just a fraction of the total number of papers that are a problem, as surveys indicate.
Our Taken for Granted columnist discusses a new report about the practice-and recommendations for reform.
Targeting a general audience, this opinion piece argues that with more transparency about the publication process, we might have a more nuanced understanding of how knowledge is built - and fewer people taking “peer-reviewed” to mean settled truth.
More interdisciplinary research may have greater relevance and be more heavily cited in policy documents.
Early-career scientists should have a say in developing the policies that can help them in the short term as well as benefit the scientific system in the long term, writes Adriana Bankston.
Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S.
While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.
A recent report reveals that only 12% of third year female PhD students want a career in academia.
Or 'how to tweet your way to honour and glory'.
HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation launch Faculty Scholars Program to give promising early-career scientists a boost.
In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results
Researchers who are mobile get more citations and build broader teams of collaborators than those who aren't, concludes a recent study.
Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias.
COVID-19 has given the public a newfound sense of the vitality of science. At the same time, policy makers are more than ever leaning on scientific advice to guide the way forward.
The publication output of doctoral students is increasingly used in selection processes for funding and employment in their early careers.
