While the Netherlands, France and the UK showed significant growth, other countries such as Finland, Switzerland and Spain declined. However, Switzerland still heads the ranking with 848 applications per million inhabitants.
Europe's ambitious but contentious €1-billion HBP has announced changes to its organization in a response to criticism of its management and scientific trajectory by many high-ranking neuroscientists.
Facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding. Up to 1,700 jobs at 27 facilities at risk from 30 June, with $150m in vital funding tied to the Coalition’s higher-education changes.
The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014
Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.
Writing rejection letters is never easy. Below we outline some tips for writing a more humane rejection letter.
A survey of ~ 250 researchers across the sciences and social sciences asks what expectations “data publication” raises and what features would be useful to evaluate the trustworthiness, evaluate the impact, and enhance the prestige of a data publication.
A systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users develops a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher’s point of view.
The World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies, a panel of 18 experts, draws on the collective expertise of the Forum’s communities to identify the most important recent technological trends.
openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.
Easy-to-use mapping tools give researchers the power to create beautiful visualizations of geographic data.
The 4th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Brazil in June 2015 sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, AAAS, NPG, EMBO and others.
For a second year running, rOpenSci is excited to announce another R unconference in March 2015 at GitHub's headquarters in San Francisco.
Negative findings matter too and new OA publications are helping researchers to give a fuller account of themselves.
Republicans in the US Congress have put the NSF under the microscope, questioning its decisions on individual grants and the purpose of entire fields of study.
An astonishingly small number of elite universities produce an overwhelming number of professors.
Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.
Times Higher Education's definitive list of the top 100 most powerful world university brands.
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
A new report suggests more sharing of research equipment may be a better way of getting more bang out of the science funding buck than clawing back ‘efficiency savings’ out of grant funding.
Giving equal weight to everybody’s opinion might be the worse thing you could do.
Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach.
The HBP should be remade into an international organization modeled on CERN or the EMBL in Heidelberg, says a panel formed to unite the neuroscience community.
International graduate students and their decisions to stay or leave the U.S. upon graduation.
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. Consequently, the attention that can be devoted to individual papers, measured by their citation counts, is bound to decay rapidly.
This paper presents three case studies describing the use of altmetrics across three research-intensive higher education institutions in the UK and USA.
Livre blanc sur la visibilité de la recherche française : enquête et recommandations.
This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.
Scientific journal articles will become freely available, thanks to new policies at major U.S. science agencies.
