This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012.
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
£6 billion (ca. 9 billion CHF) package for science and innovation in the years 2016 to 2021 announced. A review of research councils will ensure 'maximum impact' from investment.
First call for "Shared Research Facilities" shall organize and give access to bigger research infrastructures in Austria
In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
The former blog "Retraction Watch" will become an online, public, and freely accessible database of all retractions in every field of science.
Ten people who mattered this year.
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
The top 100 list of Altmetrics is fascinating for what it tells us about communication between scientists, the attention paid to science by the general public, and also for what it tells us about altmetrics themselves.
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
First comprehensive study of patterns of text reuse within the full texts of an important large scientific corpus, covering a 20-y timeframe.
100 top ranked specialties in the sciences and social sciences
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
Data show scores given to grant applications by external reviewers don't correlate with what actually gets funded.
Share of research funding going to young scientists is declining.
How using absolute numbers and journal reputation can yield misleading results.
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
A deal being announced today with Genentech points the way for 23andMe to become a sustainable business.
The Horizon 2020 programme threatens to siphon away the best scientists from southern Europe.
A patent system that is so broken that almost no patented discoveries ever get used.
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
A light-hearted opinion piece about the arbitrariness of academic success.
How a recent "bad luck" cancer study illustrates failure of science journalism.
On the delay in young scientists obtaining NIH grants.
On transparency in the process of grant review.
Evaluative strategies that increase the mean quality of published science may also increase the risk of rejecting unconventional or outstanding work.
On the challenges of crowdfunded science projects.
Comparison of the recall of commonly used online indexers.
