Corporate boards, the US Congress, and global gatherings like the just-wrapped WEF in Davos are all built on a simple theory of problem solving: Get enough smart and powerful people in a room and they'll figure it out. This may be misguided.
Growth in scientific publishing as a barrier to science communication.
In the face of routine rejection, many scientists must learn to cope with the insidious beast that is impostor syndrome.
Germany should award millions of euros in extra funding to its 10 top-performing universities, an international commission recommends.
If the United Kingdom leaves the EU, researchers throughout the bloc will feel the effects.
Authors argue this means universities should spend less on senior academics and give promising younger scholars more of a chance
Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors
The biotech company Amgen Inc. and prominent biochemist Bruce Alberts have created a new online journal that aims to lift the curtain on often hidden results in biomedicine: failed efforts to confirm other groups' published papers.
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far.
Reproducibility should be at science’s heart. It isn’t. But that may soon change.
Mistakes in peer-reviewed papers are easy to find but hard to fix.
A method that could be used by funding agencies, universities and scientific policy decision makers for hiring and funding purposes, and to complement existing methods to rank universities and countries.
This study shows that the long-run patterns of international scientific collaboration are generating a convergence between applied and basic fields. This convergence of collaboration patterns across research fields might be one of contributing factors that supports the evolution of scientific disciplines.
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
"A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels."
Despite the real-time scrutiny of internet publication, getting a paper retracted or corrected turns out to be nearly impossible.
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.
High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.
20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.
Many research advocates worry that the proposal could backfire in the face of political opposition.
The widening scandal surrounding surgeon Paolo Macchiarini and his employment at the Karolinska Insitute in Stockholm has prompted Urban Lendahl, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly, to resign.
It’s rare for scientists to get much systematic or public recognition for their reviewing efforts
If we want to embed equality and diversity in research culture, any future use of metrics to assess research must not adversely affect specific groups or researchers.
The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
An assessment of the first two years of Horizon 2020 programme, taking into account
An intelligent machine learning framework for scientific evaluation of researchers may help decision makers to better allocate the available funding to the distinguished scientists through providing fair comparative results, regardless of the career age of the researchers.
Independent advice from Professor Adam Tickell on open access to research publications.
This paper shows how bibliometric assessment can be implemented at individual level.
