The Declining Interest in an Academic Career
A paper showing that science and engineering PhD students lose interest in an academic career over the course of graduate training.
Few Authors Choose Anonymous Peer Review
Massive study of Nature journals shows that scientists from developing countries and less prestigious institutes more often prefer reviewers to be blinded to their identity.
Dueling Preprint Servers Coming for the Geosciences
Early findings from across the geosciences will soon have not one, but two online servers ready to post preprints.
The Stress of Academic Publishing
The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.
The Case for Tracking Self-Citations
As the h-index becomes the standard for measuring researcher impact, the risk for gaming the system grows.
Putting Data Before the Carrot
Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.
Open APC
The Open APC initiative releases datasets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles by universities and research institutions under an Open Database License.
Open Notebook Science as an Emerging Epistemic Culture within the Open Science Movement
Open Notebook Science as an Emerging Epistemic Culture within the Open Science Movement
The paper addresses the concepts and practices of “open notebook science” as an innovation within the contemporary Open Science movement.
Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform
Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform
Earlier this week, eLife announced a partnership with Coko to build an open source solution for submission, peer review and processing of manuscripts. The limitations of the currently available systems are substantial.
Research Suggests Students Are Biased Against Female Lecturers
How long does that prejudice last?
The ArXiv of the Future Will Not Look Like the ArXiv
The strengths and weaknesses of arXiv in an effort to identify what possible improvements can be made based on new technologies not previously available.
Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!
They’re a part of every career, and being upfront about them can help put things in perspective.
A Powerful Partnership Brings Open Annotation to EPUBs
The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.
These Trailblazers Are Paving the Way for Open Access
After almost two decades, these developments give hope that scholarly articles will finally be freed from their paywalls.
Publishing a Reproducible Paper
The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.
What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research
What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research
As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.
Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers
NPG continues to deceive about OpenAccess
I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.
Commission Releases Early Details of Future Research Megaprojects
Commission Releases Early Details of Future Research Megaprojects
The next €1B flagship projects will target ICT, energy and health, according to the draft work programme for 2018-2020 published by the European Commission.
Steps Towards Transparency in Research Publishing
As research and editorial processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks.
New Chief Science Adviser Named
Cardiology researcher Mona Nemer, is vice president for research at the University of Ottawa.
NASA Should Be Friendly to the Press. Lately, It’s Not.
Why is the one federal agency dedicated to revealing the unknown to humankind so difficult for many journalists to penetrate?
Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997–2016)
How Switzerland Became The Silicon Valley Of Robotics
Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly.
Wikipedia Shapes Language in Science Papers
Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.
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