What motivates people to review articles?
A survey of 307 reviewers of submissions to the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems to gain a better understanding of their motivations for reviewing.
Does research output cause economic growth or vice versa?
Does research output cause economic growth or vice versa?
Evidence from 34 OECD countries.
After 350 years of academic journals it's time to shake things up
Writing and reviewing journal articles is part of the core business of a scientist. But it’s not an efficient way to communicate research results.
EU research projects under Horizon 2020
EU research projects under Horizon 2020
This dataset contains projects funded by the EU under the H2020. Grant information is provided for each project, including reference, acronym, objective, title, total cost, EC contribution, start date, end date, duration, Call Id, Topic, Funding Scheme, legal basis.
Peer Review Neutrality
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Retraction to appear for beleaguered plant researcher Olivier Voinnet
Olivier Voinnet, a researcher at ETH in Zurich is retracting a 2004 paper in The Plant Cell, according to the journal's publisher.
Other shoe drops for MIT cancer researcher Robert Weinberg as Cell retraction appears
Robert Weinberg, a prominent cancer scientist whose papers often notch hundreds or thousands of citations, has lost a fourth paper, this time a 2009 publication in Cell.
Former Columbia postdoc faked Alzheimer's research in Cell and Nature
The Cell paper has been cited 150 times, according to Web of Science, while the Nature paper has been cited 40. The Nature paper has not yet been retracted.
Wanted: staff-scientist positions for postdocs
Nature readers favour creating more secure jobs to fix science’s broken postdoctoral system.
Rule rewrite aims to clean up scientific software
Nature Biotechnology asks peer reviewers to check accessibility of code used in computational studies.
California unveils 'precision-medicine' project
The $3-million state initiative will coordinate with a national effort to promote individualized patient treatment.
Prof, no one is reading you
An average academic journal article is read in its entirety by about 10 people. To shape policy, professors should start penning commentaries in popular media.
A simple way to pay for science research?
The internet has radically changed most forms of communication, government and business – why not science and research funding too?
"In Zukunft erhält bei uns jeder Doktorand einen Vertrag"
How the Max-Planck Society (MPS) wants to improve the condition of PhDs. Interview with Martin Stratmann, President of the MPS.
Leading scientists favour women in tenure-track hiring test
US science and engineering professors preferred female job candidates by two to one.
Is peer review just a crapshoot?
How do reviewer recommendations influence editor decisions? And are Chinese authors treated fairly?
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Don't think Open Access is important? It might have prevented much of the Ebola outbreak
Open access isn't just some "free culture" refrain. It really matters and can save lives.
When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate.
Scientists genetically modify human embryos
Rumours of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate.
Parliament up in arms against raid on research funds
The European Parliament has thrown a spanner into the works of Juncker's plan to slash €2.7 billion from the EU's 2014 to 2020 research budget for a new investment fund to help ramp up Europe's economy.
Researchers welcome €5-billion funding boost
Germany's ruling political parties have agreed to plough €5 billion (US$5.4 billion) more into science from 2018 to 2028.
Societies push back against NIH reproducibility guidelines
'Premature' rules for preclinical research need more flexibility and greater community involvement, say scientific society leaders.
Head of science foundation leaves under a cloud
Head of science foundation leaves under a cloud
Miguel Seabra stepped down from the presidency of Portugal's science funding agency. Although Seabra invoked "personal reasons" for his decision, scientists note that he resigned amid mounting criticism of the agency's policies.
The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics
Use these ten principles to guide research evaluation, urge Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters and colleagues.
Is this the new European Union?
European Investment Bank and European Commission ridicule the European Parliament.
A new chapter in science
A new chapter in science
This transformation will be a huge undertaking for all those involved, and exactly what these new forms of publication will look like none of us yet knows.
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