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Mobility
Germany

Return Migration of German-Affiliated Researchers: Analyzing Departure and Return by Gender, Cohort, and Discipline Using Scopus Bibliometric Data 1996-2020

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Mobility
Germany

Return Migration of German-Affiliated Researchers: Analyzing Departure and Return by Gender, Cohort, and Discipline Using Scopus Bibliometric Data 1996-2020

This analysis uncovers new dimensions of migration among scholars by investigating the return migration of published researchers, which is critical for the development of science policy.

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Prizes

Make science more reliable, win cash prizes

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Make science more reliable, win cash prizes

Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.

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Retractions
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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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Foresight

Patent Applications vs. Scientific Publications

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Patent Applications vs. Scientific Publications

Number of patent applications per million residents versus the number of scientific or technical article publications per million residents.

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Citizen Science
Peer Review
Funding

Study shows how citizens evaluate scientific research proposals

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Citizen Science
Peer Review
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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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Careers

The Toll of Short-Term Contracts

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Careers

The Toll of Short-Term Contracts

As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.

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Publishing

Why I Don't Send Papers to Journals

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Publishing

Why I Don't Send Papers to Journals

Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.

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COVID-19
Public Health

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

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COVID-19
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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Metrics

Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?

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Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?

On average, papers with an institutional e-mail address receive more citations than other ones.

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Research
AI

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

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Research
AI

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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Diversity

The 2017 Tech Leavers Study: Why People Voluntarily Left Jobs in Tech

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Diversity

The 2017 Tech Leavers Study: Why People Voluntarily Left Jobs in Tech

Workplace culture drives turnover, significantly affecting the retention of underrepresented groups, and costing the industry more than $16 billion each year.

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Society
Impact
Communication

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

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Social Media
Society
Impact
Communication

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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International

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

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Science Policy
International

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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Plan S

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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Ethics
Economics

Policy Makers Believe Money Motivates More Than It Does

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Science Policy
Ethics
Economics

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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Racism
Diversity

Why Juneteenth Matters for Science

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Racism
Diversity

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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AI
Publishing

How Language Bias Persists in Scientific Publishing Despite AI Tools

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AI
Publishing

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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Mobility

Migrating Researchers Are Cited the Most

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Mobility

Migrating Researchers Are Cited the Most

Having an affiliation in more than one country appears to have benefits.

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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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Essay

Why do we still have journals?

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Essay

Why do we still have journals?

The Web has greatly reduced the barriers to entry for new journals and other platforms for communicating scientific output, and the number of journals continues to multiply. This leaves readers and authors with the daunting cognitive challenge of navigating the literature and discerning contributions that are both relevant and significant.

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Peer Review
Metrics
Impact

The More Revisions a Paper Undergoes, the Greater Its Subsequent Recognition in Terms of Citations

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Peer Review
Metrics
Impact

The More Revisions a Paper Undergoes, the Greater Its Subsequent Recognition in Terms of Citations

Some evidence showing that the more revisions a paper undergoes, the greater its subsequent recognition in terms of citation impact.

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Publishing
Evaluation
Peer Review

The Rise and Fall of Peer Review

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Publishing
Evaluation
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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Insight

Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development

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Insight

Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development

There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.

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Careers
Academia

Should Older Academics Be Forced to Retire?

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Careers
Academia

Should Older Academics Be Forced to Retire?

Why some universities are requiring staff to step down.

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EU
ERC
International

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

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ERC
International

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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Science
International
China
US

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

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Science
International
China
US

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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Switzerland

Tax dispute brings US banking hassles for researchers

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Switzerland

Tax dispute brings US banking hassles for researchers

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.

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Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game

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Peer review and competition in the Art Exhibition Game

Competition leads to more innovation but also to more unfair reviews and to a lower level of agreement between reviewers. Moreover, competition does not improve the average quality of published works.

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Careers

Avoiding a lost generation of scientists

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Careers

Avoiding a lost generation of scientists

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.

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