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Reproducibility

Fostering Reproducibility in Industry-Academia Research

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Reproducibility

Fostering Reproducibility in Industry-Academia Research

Cultural differences between industry and academia can create or increase difficulties in reproducing research findings.

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Academia

Would You Rent Your Lab Equipment?

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Would You Rent Your Lab Equipment?

Virtual sharing and equipment loans are making access to vital research tools easier.

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Funding

I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist

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I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist

A new study confirms what many already know: Exxon for years sowed uncertainty and doubt about climate change in the public. Should scientists reject certain funding sources?

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US

The Myth of the Skills Gap

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The Myth of the Skills Gap

The idea that American workers are being left in the dust because they lack technological savvy does not stand up to scrutiny. Our focus should be on coordination and communication between workers and employers.

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Equality
Opinion

Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science

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Why Men Don’t Believe the Data on Gender Bias in Science

A physics professor explains why male scientists devalue research that shows gender bias in the field.

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Open Access
Publishing
Germany

Germany Seeks ‘Big Flip’ in Publishing Model

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Open Access
Publishing
Germany

Germany Seeks ‘Big Flip’ in Publishing Model

Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.

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Social Media

The Unbearable Emptiness of Tweeting

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Social Media

The Unbearable Emptiness of Tweeting

Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics approach.

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Interdisciplinarity
Metrics

Multidisciplinary Science – Multiple Authors?

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Interdisciplinarity
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Multidisciplinary Science – Multiple Authors?

Bibliometrics for the 20 highest performing authors in Multidisciplinary Science.

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Metrics

Exploring Characteristics of Highly Cited Authors According to Citation Location and Content

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Metrics

Exploring Characteristics of Highly Cited Authors According to Citation Location and Content

Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.

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Peer Review
Open Science

A Unified Definition of Open Peer Review

f1000
Peer Review
Open Science

A Unified Definition of Open Peer Review

A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation

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Equality
US

Leaked Documents Expose Long-Standing Gender Tensions at Salk Institute

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Equality
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Leaked Documents Expose Long-Standing Gender Tensions at Salk Institute

Disputed internal study implies institute favored big labs run by men

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Open Science

Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy

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Open Science

Announcing the new British Library Research Data Strategy

Our vision for the British Library is that research data are as integrated into our collections, research and services as text is today. The

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Social Media

To Tweet or Not To Tweet — an Academic Question

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Social Media

To Tweet or Not To Tweet — an Academic Question

I doubt that twitter has made my academic papers directly more impactful, but does that stop me tweeting about my group’s work? No way.

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Open Access

Welcome to Dissemin

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Open Access

Welcome to Dissemin

Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.

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Metrics

Prevalence and Citation Advantage of Gold Open Access in the Subject Areas of the Scopus Database

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Metrics

Prevalence and Citation Advantage of Gold Open Access in the Subject Areas of the Scopus Database

No generalizable gold OA citation advantage at journal level.

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History

Collection of Letters by Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet

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Collection of Letters by Codebreaker Alan Turing Found in Filing Cabinet

The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.

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International

The US, China and Russia Are Working on a Fusion Project Which Could Transform Energy

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Initiatives
International

The US, China and Russia Are Working on a Fusion Project Which Could Transform Energy

At a research facility in France 35 countries are working on a project that could transform energy.

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Censorship
US

US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change

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Censorship
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US Energy Agency Asked Scientists to Scrub References to Climate Change

Researchers were told to censor descriptions of projects funded by a Department of Energy laboratory.

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Collaboration

Online Networking, Data Sharing and Research Activity Distribution Tools for Scientists

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Online Networking, Data Sharing and Research Activity Distribution Tools for Scientists

Free online tools for networking, data sharing and measuring research impact.

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Education

The Democratization of Data Science Education

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Education

The Democratization of Data Science Education

The future of data science education in a data democratized world.

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Publishing

A New Way for Doctors to Share Their Medical Mysteries

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Publishing

A New Way for Doctors to Share Their Medical Mysteries

It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.

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Prizes

Sentinel Award Nominees

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Prizes

Sentinel Award Nominees

For outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.

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Book
History

A Nobel Doesn't Make You an Expert

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History

A Nobel Doesn't Make You an Expert

In an excerpt from her book "Making Sense of Science," Cornelia Dean of The New York Times shares hard-won insights in teasing out substance from hype.

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UK

Oxford University Professor Resigns in Donald Trump Protest

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Oxford University Professor Resigns in Donald Trump Protest

Bo Rothstein quits Blavatnik School of Government post after learning that patron is a major financial backer of US president.

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Open Science

How Universities Promote Putting It into Practice

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Open Science

How Universities Promote Putting It into Practice

A few examples that demonstrate how universities design their open science guides.

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Reproducibility

The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications

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Reproducibility

The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications

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Open Data

Who Will Use the Open Data?

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Open Data

Who Will Use the Open Data?

Data labs, and the scant motivations for sharing data in basic science.

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Equality

How Science Got Women Wrong

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Equality

How Science Got Women Wrong

Why the view that women are gentle, caring and empathetic, whereas men are strong, rational and dominant, is misguided.

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COI

Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem

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COI

Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem

With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.

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Censorship
History

The Fake-News Fallacy

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Censorship
History

The Fake-News Fallacy

Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

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