A more nuanced balance between the use of metrics and peer review in research assessment might be needed.
Using Emma as an example, the career path of an early career researcher whose PhD was financed by an SNSF project is profiled. To this end, data from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and the SNSF was combined and analysed.
Introducing Five Essential Factors, our latest white paper. Over the past two years, we've heard from more than 11,000 researchers about their views on data sharing, what they do in practice and the challenges they face. Building on that understanding, today we have released a whitepaper which proposes five key factors to make data management and sharing "business as usual" for all researchers.
This study found that the average age of scientists at the time of the breakthrough was higher for researchers from less developed countries. Moreover, individual opportunities in the world were extremely unequal by country of birth, gender significantly conditioned any participation in research, and the probability of becoming a top researcher more than doubled for individuals with parents belonging to the most favoured occupational categories.
Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.
A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment
The EU is to pilot a new initiative that aims to improve working conditions for young researchers, starting in 2024. The pilot will test how the European Commission, member states and industry could work together to coordinate financing and knowledge networks and strengthen and diversify research career paths by promoting links between academia and industry.
Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.
Institutions owe it to young researchers to prepare them for careers outside academia. Preprint review is a perfect opportunity.
Got an idea that could transform the world? NSF is launching a new contest offers prizes for "biggest" research ideas. On 31 August NSF will begin accepting online entries for the contest. Anyone can submit an idea - from individual scientists to professional societies to a high school science class.
In 2022 women are playing a greater role in Australia’s research effort, and have more influence over science policy, than ever before. Even though women do sit at the very top, their representation at other levels of the research pyramid is out of balance.
The research and higher education plans of the new german government include a new national technology transfer agency, better living support for students, and more job security for early career academics.
Researchers at Eawag have been awarded the 3R Swiss Competence Centre award for their outstanding research work representing a milestone in the promotion of alternatives to animal experiments.
Learned societies face many new challenges in the face of a pandemic.
Plus, more scientists nowadays spend their entire careers in supporting roles, rather than leading their own research programs.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
The current science system is unjust - from the systems that determine its membership to its outputs and outcomes. This article advocates for contextually responsive, collective action to build a more just science system.
eLife hosts online seminars to support early-career researchers to present their research online instead of in person.
Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences.
