The Interdependence of Scientists in the Era of Team Science
How is the rise in team science and the emergence of the research group as the fundamental unit of organization of science affecting scientists’ opportunities to collaborate?
European Academies statement: Science Is Global
The European Academies, including the Royal Society, have published a joint statement.
What Is SocArXiv?
A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.
Students ‘dissatisfied’ with branch campuses in Qatar
Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service
Top 10 tips for starting your first academic job
With university staff thinking about the start of the next academic year, Robert MacIntosh and Kevin O'Gorman offer some advice to staff due to arrive on campus this autumn.
Peer review – do we need gradual improvements or a revolution?
Peer review – do we need gradual improvements or a revolution?
How editors conduct peer review, how this process is evolving and whether we can trust the new players entering the field, the responsibilities of reviewers and how to recognize and reward all the effort put in to peer review.
Concordat on Open Research Data launched
Concordat on Open Research Data launched
Four of the UK’s leading research organisations have launched a concordat that proposes a series of clear and practical principles for working with research data.
Career advice highlights from the EuroScience Open Forum
Speakers covered topics including talking to your supervisor about career plans and navigating the evolving publishing landscape.
Agencies must show that basic research is worth the investment
The European Research Council has begun to evaluate the impact of its grants; others should do the same.
Introducing Preprints: A Multidisciplinary Open Access Preprint Platform
Preprints is a free (not‐for‐profit) open access service supported by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.
Antibiotics funding splurge gets mixed reception
Multimillion dollar initiative prioritizes drug development over discovery of new molecules.
Public should be at heart of 21st-century science
Enhancing trust in science through public engagement and open, transparent research is vital if we are to avoid descending into a 'post-factual society', according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science.
The Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers
The Bratislava Declaration of Young Researchers calls on member states and the European Commission to recognize the special role that young researchers play for science, development, innovation and economic growth in Europe.
These 109 Nobel laureates have finally had enough of Greenpeace’s anti-GMO campaign
These 109 Nobel laureates have finally had enough of Greenpeace’s anti-GMO campaign
Greenpeace accepts climate science. So why do they dismiss the science around GMOs?
Life's arrow: the Epistemic Singularity
For centuries people have been asking, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Science has not been able to give us an answer so far. We still have to live with the basic statement that “Everything that is is, and it is as long as it keeps its identity, that is, its onticity”, which we may call the “Strong Ontic Principle”.
The journal Impact Factor and alternative metrics
A variety of bibliometric measures has been developed to supplant the Impact Factor to better assess the impact of individual research papers
The big health data sale
As the trade of personal health and medical data expands, it becomes necessary to improve legal frameworks for protecting patient anonymity, handling consent and ensuring the quality of data
Metrics and The Social Contract: Using Numbers, Preserving Humanity
Ever since Eugene Garfield first began to analyse citation patterns in academic literature, bibliometrics and scientometrics have been highly pragmatic disciplines. By that, I mean that technological limitations have restricted measurements and analyses to what is possible, rather than what is ideal or theoretically desirable. In the post-digital era, however, technological limitations are increasingly falling …
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