An article on what is needed for personalized medicine to be reality. "Research into how genetic variants can guide successful treatments must become part of routine medical practice and records", says Geoffrey Ginsburg.
At some point we must decide whether we want excellent science or nationally representative science.
Instructors at 259 US institutions were, on average, more likely to respond to fake email requests for mentoring if the senders' names sounded white and male.
By Goodman A, Pepe A, Blocker AW, Borgman CL, Cranmer K, et al. (2014).
Paper challenging the perception of citations as an objective, socially unbiased measure of scientific success.
At the frontiers of scientific discovery, there is a growing problem. Can we still trust our scientists?
Academics have internalised research assessment to such a degree that the effects may be irreversible.
The Open Access Button is seeking £20,000 of funding for Version 2.0 of the tool, which is planned for launch in this October's Open Access Week.
Demand for ERC Starting Grants stabilizes after Switzerland being not eligible for the first time.
In "Falling Behind?" Michael Teitelbaum describes how the "hog cycle" phenomenon played out in the U.S. science and engineering workforce from the end of World War II through the 1998–2005 doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget and subsequent leveling off of funding.
Launch of METRICS, the Meta-Research Innovation Centre at Stanford, by John Ioannidis.
How this money is invested could make a huge difference to our future, in the UK and to some extent beyond
Discoveries by laypeople are rare but free access to research results would increase the likelihood
Study showing that the fate of a career strongly depends from the first two affiliations.
Academia Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for academics and those enrolled in higher education. It's 100% free, no registration required.
The intent of this program is to enable the general public to distinguish between an educated opinion and a random comment without a background related to the topic.
Was die Britin Sarah Springman anpackt, macht sie zu Gold. Nun soll sie Rektorin der ETH werden.
A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.
Roughly 90% of researchers in a recent survey said scientists and policymakers don't communicate enough. But, only about 60% said they were sure of the names of their elected federal representatives.
Erstes Monitoring über alle Aktivitäten auf Schweizer Plattformen zeigt, dass Crowdfunding auch in der Schweiz immer beliebter wird. Gemäss der Studie hat sich das gesammelte Geldvolumen im vergangenen Jahr mehr als verdoppelt.
Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher
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.
Auf Google hoch platzierte Publikationen hinterfragt kaum jemand, beklagt US-Soziologe James Evans. Gleichzeitig rät er Forschern, mehr Denkarbeit an Computer abzugeben.
Racist government policies hurt the higher education sector, says Kevin Fong, but the harm doesn't stop there I seem to recall that "education, education, education" was Tony Blair's battle cry in the run-up to the 1996 general election. (With hindsight, the title of the Kaiser Chiefs' latest album, Education, Education, Education and War, might have been closer to the mark.)
It's a common complaint among academics: today's researchers are publishing too much, too fast. But just how fast is the mass of scientific output actually growing?
The impact factor (IF) of scientific journals has acquired a major role in the evaluations of the output of scholars. However, at the end of the day one is interested in assessing the impact of individuals. Here we introduce Author Impact Factor (AIF).
Because the odds that a single paper will spread a good idea are simply too small. Three is good. Four is better. Five is much better.
Collection of literature, presentations, posts and links on reproducible research resulting from a recent Hackathon on open science.
The General Assembly of Science Europe has unanimously elected Miguel Seabra, president of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, as the next president of Science Europe.
