Crowdsourcing the analysis of complex and massive data has emerged as a framework to find robust methodologies. When the crowdsourcing is done in the form of collaborative scientific competitions, known as Challenges, the validation of the methods is inherently addressed.
Thomson Reuters claims it has “never advocated” the use of the impact factor for the “analysis of individual research artefacts or people”.
The pilot focuses on replicating studies that have a large impact on science, government policy or the public debate.
Aging of the NIH-funded independent investigator workforce is an accumulation of multiple factors including a shift in perceptions, expectations, and the general structure of the extramural workforce, as well as global macroeconomic factors.
Scientific awards, medals and prizes awarded by the Royal Society in 2016.
The story of CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing has tended to focus on a few key players.
Tech giants moving into health may widen inequalities and harm research, unless people can access and share their data, warn John T. Wilbanks and Eric J.
Political turmoil spreads to education sector.
New studies on the quality of published research shows we could be wasting billions of dollars a year on bad science, to the neglect of good science projects.
A paper exploring the dynamics of interdisciplinary research in Italy over 10 years of scientific collaboration on research projects.
The Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Learned Society of Wales, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy have published a statement on research and innovation after the EU Referendum.
The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.
Americans embraced the marketisation of higher education, with profit-making colleges and debt-laden customers. The result has been corruption and failure
Johns Hopkins University Press' Project MUSE online platform will host scholarly monographs and materials in humanities and social sciences.
Recall of those studying abroad is latest step after forced resignations and firings.
Chemist Claudio Bifano tells Nature about daily life in a country gripped by hunger, scarcity and violence.
On 23 July, around 4500 scientists and friends of science will assemble in Manchester, UK, for the opening of the EuroScience Open Forum, Europe's largest interdisciplinary research conference.
Lab Carpentry provides training resources and example documents for lab management to busy scientists.
Competitive peer review increases innovation, but it has a dark side.
How to manage the research-paper deluge? Blogs, colleagues and social media can all help.
Technologies based on the electronic analysis of large amounts of works are still in their infancy, and the possibilities they might open up in the future are largely unpredictable.
Today, the European Commission announced an investment of €8.5 billion to be released during 2017 into research and innovation, following an update to the Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding programme.
A mission-based, independent publisher standing for fairness and return approximately 25% of revenue to the research community.
UK access to EU R&D programmes stimulates £billions of investment and gives the UK access to skills and technologies that it does not have. Ending our access to these programmes will weaken our economy which depends on exploitation of innovative science and technology.
A figshare case study on Erin McKiernan's Physiological Science research.
