328 top early-career researchers selected by the ERC
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
The More Interdisciplinary Research Is, the More It is Used in Policy Documents
The More Interdisciplinary Research Is, the More It is Used in Policy Documents
More interdisciplinary research may have greater relevance and be more heavily cited in policy documents.
Young Scientists Should Help Shape STEM Education Policies
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.
Tenure Denial, and How Early-career Researchers Can Survive It
Scientists with first-hand experience of rejection offer their advice.
Scientific Societies Worry Plan S Will Make Them Shutter Journals, Slash Services
An existential threat. That's what scientific societies supported by journal subscriptions call Plan S.
China Now Publishes More High-quality Science Than Any Other Nation - Should the US Be Worried?
China Now Publishes More High-quality Science Than Any Other Nation - Should the US Be Worried?
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.
Why Researchers Should Drop the Jargon and Speak out
Scientific Research Shouldn't Sit Behind a Paywall
The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results
Why You Should Move Country
Researchers who are mobile get more citations and build broader teams of collaborators than those who aren't, concludes a recent study.
More and More Scientists Are Preregistering Their Studies. Should You?
Declaring in advance what you're going to study, and how, helps avoid p-hacking and publication bias.
Influencing Policy as an Early-Career Researcher
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.
Early Career Performance and Its Correlation with Gender and Publication Output During Doctoral Education
Early Career Performance and Its Correlation with Gender and Publication Output During Doctoral Education
The publication output of doctoral students is increasingly used in selection processes for funding and employment in their early careers.
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.
The British Academy Chooses Midlands As First Hub for Early Career Researcher Network
The British Academy Chooses Midlands As First Hub for Early Career Researcher Network
The British Academy today announced the University of Birmingham as the first regional hub of its Early Career Researcher Network.
Why the World Cannot Afford the Rich
Teaching early-career researchers how to respond to peer reviewers
Teaching early-career researchers how to respond to peer reviewers
This article describes a course module that introduces MSc students at Utrecht University in the Netherlands to this part of the publication process.
More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be.
More science than you think is retracted. Even more should be.
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.
Why Africa's Young Scientists Should Help Check the Quality of Climate Change Research
Why Africa's Young Scientists Should Help Check the Quality of Climate Change Research
Early-Career Researchers Commonly Ghostwrite Peer Reviews. That's a Problem
Early-Career Researchers Commonly Ghostwrite Peer Reviews. That's a Problem
Our Taken for Granted columnist discusses a new report about the practice-and recommendations for reform.
Early-career US National Institutes of Health Researchers Vote Overwhelmingly to Form Union
Why We Shouldn’t Take Peer Review as the ‘Gold Standard’
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.
As Science Becomes More International, Scientific Editorial Boards Lag Behind
As Science Becomes More International, Scientific Editorial Boards Lag Behind
Editors of scientific journals are a far less diverse group than the scientists in scientific publications.
Brandon Stell Is the Vigilante of Scientific Publishing
The rationale is simple: More anonymity means more scrutiny for published papers, and more scrutiny means more errors are caught.
Harassment Should Count as Scientific Misconduct
Scientific integrity needs to apply to how researchers treat people, not just to how they handle data.
Why We Can't Trust Academic Journals to Tell the Scientific Truth
Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?