eLife's departing editor talks about the seismic changes he sees coming - and why some journals will lose out.
Switzerland and the UK play an important role in scientific projects that bring countries together.
Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine a fear of working with the West, sanctions, visa restrictions, travel issues and an exodus of academics have forced Russia to retreat from the global scientific conversation.
Sudden move could derail collaborations that have taken decades to build, scientists say. International-development researchers in Sweden are in turmoil after the country’s government decided to cut all further public research funding for the field.
Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.
scite is a platform that allows anyone to see if a scientific report has been supported or contradicted by subsequent work. Its aim is to make it easier to tell what is fact and what is not.
A scientific integrity plan recently proposed by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is “fundamentally flawed,” according to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In comments filed on Nov. 6 and subsequently summarized in a statement, the advocacy group says that the draft policy “lacks meaningful protections for scientists and research.”
Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy.
Six early-career researchers offer advice on how to secure a permanent contract in academia, and then make the most of it.
Syrian researchers around the world begin to plan for the nation’s future
Just 28% of the world’s researchers are women, but Eastern Europe bucks this global trend. The Soviet legacy is part of the reason.
It’s not the first time masculine ideology has driven resistance to a public health initiative.
How common are calculation errors in the scientific literature? And can they be caught by an algorithm?
No one complained about the lack of evidence for 20-second hand-washing. So why did we treat face masks differently?
Scientific skepticism is a global phenomenon. Social psychology researchers sought to find out why and what we can do about it.
It's human nature to spot patterns in data. But we should be careful about finding causal links where none may exist, says statistician David Spiegelhalter
Drawing on a natural experiment that occurred when German institutions lost access to journals published by Elsevier, W. Benedikt Schmal shows how female researchers made significantly different publication choices to their male counterparts during this period.
On average, researchers' impact dropped by a half to two-thirds over their careers.
Here’s what the Biden-Harris administration can do to repair the damage Trump has done.
The NSF and the NIH award tens of billions of dollars in annual science funding. How can this money be distributed as efficiently as possible to best promote scientific innovation and productivity?
Scientific research and its impact are closely linked with the promotion and protection of Human rights. It is imperative to act upon the unequal access to scientific benefits and to guarantee full access to scientific literature and knowledge for all.
University Librarian and Professor Jeffrey MacKie-Mason talks about why UC split with the academic publisher.
