Peter Gluckman and James Wilsdon: This week’s summit of the International Network for Government Science Advice will take stock of progress in using evidence and expertise to inform policy.
Researchers with a PhD who are employed by a Dutch research institution can request funding for the replication of 'cornerstone research'.
Tensions between Cuba and the United States are easing. But researchers still struggle to join the scientific world.
For the head of AstraZeneca’s genomics initiative, the challenge is not just getting the sequences, but in putting them to use — wisely.
This study investigates whether bias with single-blind review is greatest in a setting of author or institutional prestige.
Many reviewers feel that some form of public acknowledgment is more valuable than monetary payment when it comes to their services.
This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research.
More than 2,000 researchers from a variety of disciplines contributed to a survey conducted by Elsevier and the Publishing Research Consortium.
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features: free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers.
A professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania talks about why faculty diversity is an important — and elusive — goal.
Women publish and review less than men in American Geophysical Union journals, but have a higher acceptance rate.
When knowledge is uncertain, experts should avoid pressures to simplify their advice. Render decision-makers accountable for decisions, says Andy Stirling.
Last week, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced their new philanthropic initiative with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing all diseases by the end of the century.” This may raise some eyebrows, but this effort—part of the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—joins forces with other philanthropists to push the envelope and support audacious ideas, with long-term commitments, to solve some of our greatest challenges.
The Greek government is trying to stop the nationwide brain drain stemming from global financial crisis. This week, the parliament was expected to take up legislation to create the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI), modeled after the German Research Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation.
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
A Cross-Sectional Study
More papers correlate with top-cited research for more-established academics, but not newly minted professors, according to a study.
Data sharing rules are vague and institution-specific and permit researchers to erect obstacles that give them effective veto power over use of their data.
Academic social networks may get users hooked on them, like addicted academics, transforming what should only be a means into an end in itself.
