No Masks or Capes, but These Heroes Are Saving the World
They may be too humble to call themselves heroes, but there's no better way to describe them according to Bill Gates.
Put It on Camera: How to Get into Scientific Film- and Video-Making
It’s easier than ever to learn how to produce captivating clips that can boost your scientific outreach - or open the door to a new job.
500,000 Britons’ Genomes Will Be Public by 2020, Transforming Drug Research
500,000 Britons’ Genomes Will Be Public by 2020, Transforming Drug Research
Six drug firms are paying to sequence the genes of every volunteer in the UK Biobank.
Scholars Seek Open Access in Academic Journal Deal
German universities demand open access and fair pricing from academic publishing house Elsevier.
The Concept of Research Impact Pervades Contemporary Academic Discourse – But What Does It Actually Mean?
The Concept of Research Impact Pervades Contemporary Academic Discourse – But What Does It Actually Mean?
Research impact is often talked about, but how clear is it what this term really means? The authors highlight four core elements that comprise most research impact definitions and propose a new conceptualisation of research impact relevant to health policy.
Elsevier is a Library's Best Friend
Elsevier is often thought to be the enemy of academic libraries, but in fact its practices improve libraries and lower costs.
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.
Disagreement over the Legal Definition of Misconduct
A dispute between Australia’s major research funding agencies and universities over the definition of research misconduct has revealed global inconsistencies in the way misconduct is defined and regulated, as well as its ambiguous legal status.
Funders Should Mandate Open Citations
"Truly open scholarship also requires that bibliographic references be freely available for analysis and reuse", says David Shotton, co-director of OpenCitations.
Scientists Continue to Use Outdated Methods
The use of outdated computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis-and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.
To Have and Have Not: The Drama of EU Research Funding Enters Its next Act
To Have and Have Not: The Drama of EU Research Funding Enters Its next Act
More EU ministers and commissioners are voicing support for bigger research and innovation funding - but the political argument is a long way from won. To win the case for more funding, innovation fans are going to have to talk, not abstractly, but concretely.
Open Research in 2018, Real or Fake News?
Neil Jacobs, head of scholarly communications support at Jisc, explains the significance of the recent Horizon 2020 open publication announcement.
Rising Star Appointed UK Science Minister
The UK has gained a new science minister as part of a broader reshuffle of government posts. Sam Gyimah, who moves from the Ministry of Justice, was appointed minister for universities and science on 9 January, replacing Jo Johnson.
Granularity of Algorithmically Constructed Publication-Level Classifications of Research Publications: Identification of Topics
Granularity of Algorithmically Constructed Publication-Level Classifications of Research Publications: Identification of Topics
Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.
Faced with Public Pressure, Research Institutions Step up Reporting of Clinical Trial Results
Faced with Public Pressure, Research Institutions Step up Reporting of Clinical Trial Results
The reporting of clinical trial results to a public database has improved sharply in the last two years, with universities and other nonprofit research centers leading the way.
Ten Simple Rules for Drawing Scientific Comics
An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
On the Origin of Nonequivalent States: How We Can Talk About Preprints
On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.
Open Access Levels: A Quantitative Exploration Using Web of Science and oaDOI Data
Open Access Levels: A Quantitative Exploration Using Web of Science and oaDOI Data
Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.
Open Access Knowledge: Digital Style Guide - Writing for Research
Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.
Modelling Science Trustworthiness Under Publish or Perish Pressure
Analysis suggesting that trustworthiness of published science in a given field is influenced by false positive rate, and pressures for positive results. We find decreasing available funding has negative consequences for resulting trustworthiness, and examine strategies to combat propagation of irreproducible science.
Overseas Students 'Worth 10 Times the Cost' to UK, Says Report
New in-depth look at the price of hosting EU and non-EU students shows benefits far outweigh cost to taxpayer
When Evaluating Research, Different Metrics Tell Us Different Things
Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.
Representing A "Revolution": How the Popular Press Has Portrayed Personalized Medicine
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.
Gender Pay Gap Persists
Pay disparities between female and male PhD holders in the United States exist across almost all fields of science and engineering, according to a report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
Could Science Destroy the World? These Scholars Want to Save Us from a Modern-Day Frankenstein
Could Science Destroy the World? These Scholars Want to Save Us from a Modern-Day Frankenstein
A small group of researchers is studying how science could destroy the world - and how to stop that from happening.