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The Science Behind The Headlines Needs Funding Too - Here's Why

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Interview

The Science Behind The Headlines Needs Funding Too - Here's Why

Policy makers, educators and society at large need to have a more fundamental understanding of the way science works – and the way it should be funded.

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Reflections on Open Research – a PI's Perspective

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Reflections on Open Research – a PI's Perspective

Interviewing Dr David Savage.

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Moedas: 'We Won't Mess with Basic Research'

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Moedas: 'We Won't Mess with Basic Research'

Funding for basic research will not be affected by the dramatic changes planned for the FP9, acording to Carlos Moedas.

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Innovation

The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve

Disruption isn’t the only approach.

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AI

Is Your Job About To Disappear?

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Is Your Job About To Disappear?

Use this tool to find out if robots are the future of your profession.

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Initiatives

Make Our Planet Great Again

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Initiatives

Make Our Planet Great Again

Emmanuel Macron, President of France invites all responsable citizens to come to France in order to Make Our Planet Great Again and work on climate change.

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Mavericks & Heretics

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Mavericks & Heretics

Ignored, Scorned…Vindicated. The maverick scientists whose heretical ideas were ultimately proven correct.

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Open Science

Metrics for Openness

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Metrics
Open Science

Metrics for Openness

The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research.

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Clarivate Analytics Announces Landmark Partnership with Impactstory

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Clarivate Analytics Announces Landmark Partnership with Impactstory

Novel public/private partnership connects researchers to verified versions of an estimated 18 million new open access articles from Web of Science.

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Careers

The Secrets of a Top Salary in Science

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Careers

The Secrets of a Top Salary in Science

The highest-earning academics aren’t necessarily those who do the most research.

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Equality

Without Even Thinking

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Equality

Without Even Thinking

Implicit biases are pervasive and unavoidable. But they can be changed.

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Foresight
AI

The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

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The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

It'€™s not robot overlords. It'€™s economic inequality and a new global order.

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Science Is More Than Just People Working in a Lab

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Science Is More Than Just People Working in a Lab

The best idea humans have ever had.

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Scientific Cuddles vs. Criticism

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Scientific Cuddles vs. Criticism

A bit more than a month ago, I arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to spend my summer working with some of the wonderful data sets being collected at the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan and to enjoy the unique flair of a US college town (why does it smell like weed everywhere?)

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The Scholarly Commons

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The Scholarly Commons

How to make research open and participatory for anyone, anywhere.

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NIH Abandons Plan to Limit Per-Person Grant Awards

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NIH Abandons Plan to Limit Per-Person Grant Awards

The agency says it is shifting to a new strategy but not from its goal of helping younger scientists compete for NIH support.

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In a World Ruled by Rumour, it Is Vital that Scientists Speak with Humility and Clarity

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In a World Ruled by Rumour, it Is Vital that Scientists Speak with Humility and Clarity

Facts are the science world’s stock-in-trade, but in an era of fake news it is ever more important to build public trust by avoiding exaggerated claims and jargon.

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Evidence-Informed Policy Making

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Evidence-Informed Policy Making

Feeding high-quality evidence into policy making remains difficult, but is essential for improving public interventions.

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Open Data

Survey on Sharing Data and Open Data

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Open Data

Survey on Sharing Data and Open Data

We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2017 survey asking researchers about their use of and attitudes to data, and in particular open data. Take the survey.

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EU

Less than 5 Years to Build the European Open Science Cloud

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EU

Less than 5 Years to Build the European Open Science Cloud

There are decades of lessons learnt and resources to build upon … where does the EOSCpilot project fit in?

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EU

Can Universities Stay Open?

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Can Universities Stay Open?

Britain’s relationship with the European Union has been a fruitful one when it comes to higher education. By operating within a larger European network, UK universities have become increasingly competitive in world terms.

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Careers

Through Internships, Ph.D. Students Expand Their Skills and Explore Their Options

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Through Internships, Ph.D. Students Expand Their Skills and Explore Their Options

As internship opportunities expand, doctoral candidates reap the benefits.

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Elsevier Wins $15 Million in Copyright Suit Against Piracy Sites

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Elsevier Wins $15 Million in Copyright Suit Against Piracy Sites

No Defendant has appeared or answered the Complaint.

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Scientific Method

Navigating Research

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Scientific Method

Navigating Research

How academic users understand, discover, and utilize reference resources.

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Mobility

Scientists in Limbo as US Supreme Court Allows Modified Travel Ban

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Mobility

Scientists in Limbo as US Supreme Court Allows Modified Travel Ban

Justices overturn lower court rulings on policy targeting people from six majority-Muslim countries.

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Journal Science Releases Guidelines for Publishing Scientific Studies

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Journal Science Releases Guidelines for Publishing Scientific Studies

The journal published guidelines on Thursday aimed at reducing scientific misconduct and at making studies easier to check and replicate.

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Publishing

Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?

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Publishing

Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?

It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.

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Publishing

Even Sci-Hub Has Management Headaches

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Even Sci-Hub Has Management Headaches

Sci-Hub's management strategy.

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Innovation

We Should Make It Easy for People to Bring Great Tech Ideas to Market—but We're Doing the Opposite

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Innovation

We Should Make It Easy for People to Bring Great Tech Ideas to Market—but We're Doing the Opposite

The world’s most potent technologists are stranded in today’s innovation ecosystem.

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Careers

Can the Journal Impact Factor Be Used as a Criterion for the Selection of Junior Researchers?

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Can the Journal Impact Factor Be Used as a Criterion for the Selection of Junior Researchers?

A Large-Scale Empirical Study Based on ResearcherID Data

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