Wiley is piloting a partnership with Publons to give you official recognition for your peer review work. This partnership means you can opt-in to have your reviews for participating Wiley journals automatically added to your reviewer profile on Publons.
Personal genetics firm 23andMe has revealed it is to launch a new drug discovery and development division.
Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.
The next president of the Royal Society will be the Nobel-winning Cambridge researcher Prof Sir Venki Ramakrishnan. He will succeed geneticist Sir Paul Nurse in December 2015.
Swiss researchers who work in the US are having trouble keeping their bank accounts in Switzerland due to complications from long-standing tax evasion issues between the two countries.
Reasons for removing time-bound criteria from MRC fellowship applications to help give people the time they need.
The professionally trained scientists who make decisions on biology papers at the big journals with the big journal impact factors have significantly less scientific experience and far weaker publication records than the editors of lower journal impact factor biology journals.
When people talk about the flaws in the scientific process, they often raise the problem of peer review. Right now, when a researcher submits an article for publication in a journal, it's sent off to his or her peers for constructive criticism or even rejection.
Free from bureaucracy, independent science labs offer a flexibility that can't be matched by universities.
Things are improving for women working in most STEM-based fields, although there are some notable exceptions.
As the world warms and technology improves, researchers and institutions should look at their carbon footprints and question whether they really need to travel to academic conferences.
This paper analyses the main patterns of five social media metrics as a function of document characteristics (i.e., discipline, document type, title length, number of pages and references) and collaborative practices and compares them to patterns known for citations.
Conservative estimates of the value and benefits to Australia of making publicly-funded research data freely available.
The main goal of the European Research Council (ERC) is to encourage high quality research in Europe through competitive funding
Data.gov now enables the public to open data directly with apps like Plotly and CartoDB for robust visualization and analysis. New tools are making it easier to visualize and analyze data at the click of a button.
The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. Following a period of public comment, our global experts are now preparing the final version of the text.
ThinkLab is a platform that aims to facilitate and reward a 'massively collaborative', open, online model of research.
The first of a number of independent reviews of the policy during the transition period (five years from the policy being introduced), and covers the first 16 months, April 2013 to July 1014, of the policy’s implementation.
HHMI, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Simons Foundation launch Faculty Scholars Program to give promising early-career scientists a boost.
BioMed Central is retracting 43 papers possibly involving third-party companies selling the service.
Harold Varmus, a Nobel Prize winner who has led the National Cancer Institute at the NIH for nearly 5 years, said he will step down from his post effective at the end of this month.
Ryoji Noyori, long-time president of Japan's RIKEN network of basic-research laboratories, has resigned after a year in which the organization was embroiled in controversy over fraudulent stem-cell papers.
Behind the headlines are exciting initiatives that have the potential to, not just improve peer review, but optimize it for 21st century scholarship.
"Peer review is mortally sick" according to Vitek Tracz.
Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?
Europe's research commissioner Carlos Moedas on funding models, diplomacy and scientific advice.
US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.
Study comparing the difference in the impact between open access and non-open access articles.
