Commission moots use of crowdsourced peer review for Horizon 2020 evaluations
The EU Commission is canvassing views on whether the process of assessing research projects should be more open to public eyes.
For my next trick...
Too many medical trials move their goalposts halfway through. A new initiative aims to change that
Watch Albert Einstein jumpkick Isaac Newton in Science Kombat
A tribute to an old video game and to the greatest scientists in history.
Switzerland’s forgotten ‘Leonardo da Vinci’
For 16th century zoologists, it was like Google's arrival. Rather than punch a keyboard, they could thumb over Conrad Gessner’s sensational work.
Auto-correlation of journal impact factor for consensus research reporting statements: a cohort study
Auto-correlation of journal impact factor for consensus research reporting statements: a cohort study
Citation counts are not purely a reflection of scientific merit and the impact factor is, in fact, auto-correlated.
Lessons from the startup world
Professor Matthew Wallenstein wants to bring what he has learned as an entrepreneur to his colleagues in academia.
Springer opens research articles that can make a difference
Springer is launching a new online initiative called Change the World, One Article at a Time: Must-Read Articles from 2015. The initiative focuses on articles published in 2015 in Springer journals which deal with some of the world's most urgent challenges. Those articles which are already open access are freely available online on a permanent basis and all other articles have been made freely available until July 15, 2016.
Flagship brain project releases neuro-computing tools
Human Brain Project asks wider neuroscience community to start using its hardware and software.
Fixed term and permanent: my two academic lives
Rejection hurts more when you don't have a long-term contract to fall back on, says Helen Lees.
Open Science
Authors have, in general, a positive view on open access, but other factors are more important in choosing a place of publication for an academic article.
Can a young university be a world-leading university?
Youth is not a bar to excellence, despite older institutions’ rankings success. Jack Grove analyses how some youthful contenders have risen in the ranks.
Scientists Say It's Time To End 'Parachute Research'
Researchers drop in. They take specimens. And they head home and don't share. That's no way to fight an epidemic. Can they do things differently when it comes to Zika?
A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again
Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.
The slow professor
The authors of a new book challenge what they call the “frantic pace” of contemporary university life.
Dare to share
This advisory report is about open science, and more specifically about access to scholarly publications (open access) and research data (open research data). What impact is this likely to have for the world of science itself, for society and for business? What level of openness is publicly desirable and what does this imply for government policy?
Smartphone science
Researchers are learning how to convert devices into global laboratories.
Criminologists scrutinise academia in wake of scientific scandals
Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says.
This scientist nearly went to jail for making up data
An Australian neuroscientist just pleaded guilty to fraud but received a suspended sentence for his research misconduct.
Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.
Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.
Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…
Conflict-of-interest information is often buried in studies. These researchers want to change that.
Seven Things Every Researcher Should Know About Scholarly Publishing
After many and long conversations among colleagues within and beyond the Scholarly Kitchen about what researchers need to know about scholarly publishing.
The challenges for scientific publishing, 60 years on
On the democratization of science via the Internet and the dramatic change in the communication of data and in their interpretation.
Denmark and Sweden take another look at how they investigate scientific misconduct
After a series of scandals in Nordic science, Denmark and Sweden are rethinking how they investigate allegations of academic fraud and misconduct.
Exploring the effectiveness of research and innovation policies among European Union countries
Exploring the effectiveness of research and innovation policies among European Union countries
In this paper we explore the effectiveness of selected research and innovation policies among EU countries.
"Open science: share and succeed"
Speech by Commissioner Carlos Moedas in Amsterdam, NL
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