Russian scientists who oppose the war against Ukraine say that while they have some understanding of the reasons for European scientific sanctions, stopping international collaboration may be counterproductive in the long term.
Within the scope of the Career Tracker Cohorts study, postdocs were surveyed in order to learn more about potential changes in their work routines, effects on their research, and their own assessment of the impact the pandemic would have on their careers.
The community-curated website aims to connect early-career researchers with funding opportunities, useful resources and each other.
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
Switzerland and the UK play an important role in scientific projects that bring countries together.
Shifting attitudes of researchers towards open access mandates.
M4K Pharma was incorporated to launch an open science drug discovery program that relies on regulatory exclusivity as its primary intellectual property and commercial asset, in lieu of patents. In many cases and in key markets, using regulatory exclusivity can provide equivalent commercial protection to patents, while also being compatible with open science. The model is proving attractive to government, foundation and individual funders, who collectively have different expectations for returns on investment compared with biotech, pharmaceutical companies, or venture capital investors.In the absence of these investor-driven requirements for returns, it should be possible to commercialize therapeutics at affordable prices. M4K is piloting this open science business model in a rare paediatric brain tumour, but there is no reason it should not be more widely applicable.
eLife's departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming - and why some journals will lose out.
Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.
How common are calculation errors in the scientific literature? And can they be caught by an algorithm?
Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.
By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.
Early career researchers’ path to independence is unnecessarily bumpy
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
A practical peer review training course for early career researchers developed together with expert academics and editors to teach you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.
With so much new literature published each year, why are authors increasingly citing older papers?
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
Key ideas behind the future of scientific publishing will be done primarily by two groups of outsiders: exceptionally creative user interface designers, and people who design group experiences.
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
The publication, retraction and subsequent republication of the Séralini study raise important scientific and ethical issues for journal editors. Decisions to retract an article should be made on the basis of well-established policies. Articles should be retracted only for serious errors that undermine the reliability of the data or results, or for serious ethical lapses, such as research misconduct or mistreatment of animal or human subjects.
Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says.
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting 'outmoded' publishing practices.
