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Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.

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Retracted Papers Keep Being Cited as if they Weren’t Retracted. Two Researchers Suggest how Elsevier Could Help Fix that.

Even after a paper’s retracted, it will continue to be cited - often by researchers who don’t realize the findings are problematic.

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Study shows how citizens evaluate scientific research proposals

Study shows how citizens evaluate scientific research proposals

New research by ESMT Berlin and Politecnico di Milano explores how non-experts assess scientific research proposals and reveals key implications for public participation in science funding.

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Who is Getting Sick? A Look at Coronavirus Risk by Age, Gender, and More

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Public Health

Who is Getting Sick? A Look at Coronavirus Risk by Age, Gender, and More

For a variety of reasons, researchers want to figure out who's most at risk of being infected and who's most at risk of developing severe illness.

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Research

Don't Panic. AI Isn't Coming to End Scientific Exploration

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Research

Don't Panic. AI Isn't Coming to End Scientific Exploration

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence.

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Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the Choir or Singing from the Rooftops?

Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the Choir or Singing from the Rooftops?

Asking whether Twitter allows scientists to promote their findings primarily to other scientists ("inreach"), or whether it can help them reach broader, non-scientific audiences ("outreach"). Results should encourage scientists to invest in building a social media presence for scientific outreach.

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Science Communication

Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here's How Researchers Can Fight Back.

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Science Communication

Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here's How Researchers Can Fight Back.

Science is often poorly communicated. Researchers can fight back.

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How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior

How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior

A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.

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Plan S

The Rights Retention Strategy and Publisher Equivocation: an Open Letter to Researchers | Plan S

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The Rights Retention Strategy and Publisher Equivocation: an Open Letter to Researchers | Plan S

cOAlition S strategy of applying a prior licence to the Author's Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is designed to facilitate full and immediate open access of funded scientific research for the greater benefit of science and society.

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Policy Makers Believe Money Motivates More Than It Does

Policy Makers Believe Money Motivates More Than It Does

To motivate contributions to public goods, should policy makers employ financial incentives like taxes, fines, subsidies, and rewards? Academic literature suggests the impact of financial incentives is not always positive.

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Why Juneteenth Matters for Science

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Why Juneteenth Matters for Science

In the light of US court rulings on racism in science and affirmative action in higher education, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans is ever more important.

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How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools

How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools

Stanford researchers highlight the ongoing challenges of language discrimination in academic publishing, revealing that AI tools may not be the solution for non-native speakers.

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Publications

Reproducibility

28 Classic and Contemporary Psychology Findings Replicated in More Than 60 Laboratories Each Across Three Dozen Nations and Territories

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Reproducibility

28 Classic and Contemporary Psychology Findings Replicated in More Than 60 Laboratories Each Across Three Dozen Nations and Territories

A team of 186 researchers conducted replications of 28 classic and contemporary findings in psychology.

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The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing.

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New Scheme Will Allow Thailand-based Researchers to Join European Research Council Teams

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New Scheme Will Allow Thailand-based Researchers to Join European Research Council Teams

Thailand and the EU last week signed off a new scheme allowing researchers from Thailand to join European Research Council-funded projects. ERC already has a number of such arrangements with countries including Australia, Brazil, China, India and the US, but this is the first time it has cooperated with Thailand's National Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Policy Council.

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China’s Historic Rise to the Top of the Scientific Ladder

China’s Historic Rise to the Top of the Scientific Ladder

For decades, Western scientists and policymakers dismissed China’s research boom as a matter of quantity over quality. Those days are over. In 2024, China achieved what seemed impossible just a few years ago, overtaking the United States in the number of publications appearing in the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

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Open Access

Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky!

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Open Access

Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky!

Will Plan S deprive researchers of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league?

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Horizon Europe

The Successes and Shortcomings of Horizon 2020

Horizon Europe

The Successes and Shortcomings of Horizon 2020

The Horizon 2020 programme had a huge impact on the European economy, its scientific output, and on society, but was short on budget, needed simplification and should have included better support for women researchers and entrepreneurs.

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Gender

How to Make Career Advancement in Economics More Inclusive

Gender

How to Make Career Advancement in Economics More Inclusive

Men are overrepresented in senior academic positions in Economics. What factors can explain this phenomenon, and how can we make the academic environment more inclusive?

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Meta-research

Calibrating the Scientific Ecosystem Through Meta-Research

Meta-research

Calibrating the Scientific Ecosystem Through Meta-Research

Whilst some scientists study insects, molecules, brains, or clouds, other scientists study science itself. Meta-research, or “research-on-research”, is a burgeoning discipline that investigates efficiency, quality, and bias in the scientific ecosystem.

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Careers

Early Career Researchers

Manifesto to Save 'Lost Generation' of Researchers

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Early Career Researchers

Manifesto to Save 'Lost Generation' of Researchers

Research leaders have this week put their weight behind a manifesto calling for moves to make research careers more attractive in a bid to stop the brain drain away from science.

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Publishers Still Don't Prioritize Researchers

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Publishers Still Don't Prioritize Researchers

Scholarly publishers still do not meet researchers' needs. Doing so would require that they rethink existing businesses and organizational models.

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Female Scientists in Africa Are Changing the Face of Their Continent

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Female Scientists in Africa Are Changing the Face of Their Continent

Why international researchers should be lining up to collaborate with women working in science across Africa.

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Foresight

The future of scientific peer review (conference videos)

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Foresight

The future of scientific peer review (conference videos)

Discussion about open-access publishing and the future of scientific communication and peer-review at the Open Science Summit 2012.

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Why the Crisis in Official Statistics Matters - and How It Can Be Fixed

Why the Crisis in Official Statistics Matters - and How It Can Be Fixed

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate funding and increased politicization of official data.

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Where AI Meets Scientific Publishing | The AI Journal

Where AI Meets Scientific Publishing | The AI Journal

If the proverbial saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) touches every aspect in life is true, the world of scientific publishing certainly is no exception.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

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Scientific Publishing Is Rigged - at Our Expense

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Scientific Publishing Is Rigged - at Our Expense

If 'money makes the world go round' then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule.

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'Price Gouging from Covid': Student Ebooks Costing Up to 500% More Than in Print

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COVID-19

'Price Gouging from Covid': Student Ebooks Costing Up to 500% More Than in Print

Call for public inquiry as locked-down students unable to access online books, which can be 500% more costly than print versions.

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Open Letter: Open Science Should Provide Support, Not Impose Sanctions

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Open Access

Open Letter: Open Science Should Provide Support, Not Impose Sanctions

Beyond ideological boundaries, the Open Science movement should address the question of whether and, if so, under which framework conditions “closeness” can be appropriate in global, political crises. Openness must not be abused to place sanctions in global, political crises by closing open offers.