Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals
While few will disagree with their motives, the authors provide no roadmap for scientific societies. It may be time to learn from the successes of commercial rivals.
The Problem with Nobel Prizes and the Myth of the Lone Genius
Jenny Rohn: Restricting Nobel prizes to three individuals has always been problematic, and increasingly glosses over the contributions of everyday scientists.
U.S. Trio Win Nobel for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves
Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Method to Visualise Biomolecules
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.
Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Save time and protect critical code with 'continuous integration' services.
LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
Europe's Joint Research Centre, Although Improving, Must Think Bigger
External report criticizes lack of exploratory research.
Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review?
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick
An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Ethics of Internet Research Trigger Scrutiny
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead
John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.
Open Countries Have Strong Science
A clear correlation between a nation's scientific influence and the links it fosters with foreign researchers exists.
Science Without Walls Is Good for All
International mobility and collaboration are linked to stronger research.
Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub
The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines.
G7 Plans Joint Research Funding
The G7 countries have agreed to explore ways of cooperating to fund research and innovation activities.
Scientists Have Most Impact When They're Free to Move
An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R.
How Do We Define the Policy Impact of Public Health Research?
A systematic review
The Role of Ego in Academic Profile Services
Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.
Lazy Scholar
A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.
The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review
The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review
This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.
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