Paper showing that increasing research investments, resulting in an increasing knowledge base, have not yielded comparative gains in certain health outcomes over the last five decades. [Closed Access]
Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not work—in practice.
Poor countries often complain that their best minds are draining away—and for the most part they are right. The poorer the country, the larger the proportion of inventors who push off.
At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.
Proposed Twitter-based altmetric would treat retweets like citations.
The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications.
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
[11]A new study found that 31% of men engage in self-citation, compared to only 21% of women.
Amateurs are ready and able to try the CRISPR technique for rewriting genes.
You can’t measure human skills the way you do engineering systems, Robert Dingwall and Mary Byrne McDonnell observe.
As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.
Discover the most talked about and the latest scientific content, sorted by Altmetric scores and topics.
“If civilisation was destroyed, what scientific information would you pass on to the survivors?”
By paying 3.5 Mio CHF for Elsevier journals in 2014 the ETH tops all British universities..
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
We collected some of Switzerland's most exciting technology startups and ranked them by the amount raised, headcount, and how cool and original they are.
Moedas' speech at the opening of the academic year and the 375th Anniversary of Helsinki University.
My team is drawn from all over Europe and beyond – the researchers bring in talent, income and dedication.
Failure to replicate is not a bug; it is a feature. It is what leads us along the path of scientific discovery.
Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda.
University league tables do not pay enough attention to institutions’ innovative spirit, argues the European Commission’s Gerard de Graaf.
This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining by academic researchers.
Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests.
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