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Equality

Smartest in Class: Male Students 'Overestimate' Intelligence

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Smartest in Class: Male Students 'Overestimate' Intelligence

It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side.

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The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete

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The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete

Today's complex, dynamic scientific results are often found with the help of computers. And yet the most popular tool we have for communicating these results is the PDF - literally a simulation of a piece of paper. Maybe we can do better.

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What Are the Ten Most Cited Sources on Wikipedia? Let's Ask the Data.

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What Are the Ten Most Cited Sources on Wikipedia? Let's Ask the Data.

Understanding the provenance of information used by Wikipedians, also allows us to lift a veil on its gaps - the types of sources, languages, and perspectives - that are not represented, which in turn can inform community efforts to improve coverage in underserved content areas.

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Open Science
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EU

Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access

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Hated Science Publisher Elsevier To Help EU Monitor Open Science - Including Open Access

Elsevier will be providing data to guide EU policy decisions that it stands to gain from materially in significant ways.

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Society

Empowering Early Career Scientists to Engage in Science Advocacy, Policy and Communication

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Empowering Early Career Scientists to Engage in Science Advocacy, Policy and Communication

Preparing early career scientists for a career that connects science and society.

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EU

From Babies' Brains to Bacterial Warfare: ERC Invests €650 Million in Ground-Breaking Research

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From Babies' Brains to Bacterial Warfare: ERC Invests €650 Million in Ground-Breaking Research

The announcement of ERC Advanced Grants, worth a total of €653 million, benefiting 269 senior researchers across Europe. 

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China
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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre

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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre

China’s much-anticipated brain initiative finally starts to take shape.

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Research Data

Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data

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Research Data

Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data

Elsevier has launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.

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Changes Arise for Industry and Non-EU Roles in FP9

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Changes Arise for Industry and Non-EU Roles in FP9

The EU’s next R&D funding programme might provide more diffuse support for industry and be more open to non-EU countries, a document apparently leaked from the European Commission suggests.

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Gender

Yes, Being a Woman in Science Is Hard. That’s Why We’re Trying to Change It.

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Yes, Being a Woman in Science Is Hard. That’s Why We’re Trying to Change It.

Spotlighting injustice while ignoring the solutions we put forward erases our agency.

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Equality

Melinda Gates on Diversity in Tech, Ending Malaria, and the Problems Money Can't Solve

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Melinda Gates on Diversity in Tech, Ending Malaria, and the Problems Money Can't Solve

"If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark."

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Artificial Intelligence Reveals How U.S. Stereotypes About Women and Minorities Have Changed in the past 100 Years

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Artificial Intelligence Reveals How U.S. Stereotypes About Women and Minorities Have Changed in the past 100 Years

What people write reveals hidden biases.

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Technology

Forget the Trade War. China Wants to Win the Computing Arms Race

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Forget the Trade War. China Wants to Win the Computing Arms Race

As the U.S. and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminum to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing.

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China

China Issues Regulations for Improving Security and Management of Scientific Data

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China Issues Regulations for Improving Security and Management of Scientific Data

The regulations issued by the State Council aim to improve the management, security, accuracy, and openness of scientific data.

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AI

Our Mindless Future

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Our Mindless Future

Big technology companies seem to be waging a war on humankind’s long-standing intellectual tradition, according to author Franklin Foer, who shows us how to fight back.

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UK

UKRI Criticised for Appointing All-White Research Council Boards

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UK

UKRI Criticised for Appointing All-White Research Council Boards

Just five out of 57 appointed members of the new UK Research and Innovation unified research funding body are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds.

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We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting

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We Need the Humanities More Than Ever, Despite All the Shouting

In today’s knowledge economy, the practical value of a STEM degree is obvious. Yet our future depends on graduates who are steeped in the humanities and social sciences.

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Preprints

An Underutilized Mechanism to Accelerate Outbreak Science

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An Underutilized Mechanism to Accelerate Outbreak Science

In an Essay, Michael Johansson and colleagues advocate the posting of research studies addressing infectious disease outbreaks as preprints.

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Gender

Gender Pay Gap: Big Disparities at Research-Intensive Firms

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Gender Pay Gap: Big Disparities at Research-Intensive Firms

Figures from some of the top R&D spenders in the UK have shown large disparities between the salaries earned by their female and male employees.

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Impact
Foresight
Funding

Philanthropists, Nonprofit Executives And Board Members Must Awaken To The Dawn Of The Impact Era

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Philanthropists, Nonprofit Executives And Board Members Must Awaken To The Dawn Of The Impact Era

We are entering a new era - the Impact Era - where increasingly philanthropists are grounding their generosity in decisions focused on having a real social impact. And, in response, nonprofit organizations are learning to refocus their strategies to maximize that impact.

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Equality

Sex Differences in Academic Rank and Publication Rate in US Neurology Programs

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Equality

Sex Differences in Academic Rank and Publication Rate in US Neurology Programs

Cross-sectional study investigating the potential sex differences at each faculty rank in top-ranked US academic neurology programs by comparing the number of male vs female neurologists and their level of academic productivity quantitated by publication rates and scholarly activities.

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Authorship
Careers
Humanities

The Proportion of Co-Authored Research Articles Has Risen Markedly in Recent Decades

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Authorship
Careers
Humanities

The Proportion of Co-Authored Research Articles Has Risen Markedly in Recent Decades

To what extent should academic hiring and promotional bodies apply a discount for articles with many authors?

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Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?

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Do Papers with an Institutional E-Mail Address Receive More Citations Than Those with a Non-Institutional One?

On average, papers with an institutional e-mail address receive more citations than other ones.

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Integrity

Using Software to Fight Cancer Research Fraud

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Integrity

Using Software to Fight Cancer Research Fraud

After discovering a pattern of fraudulent papers from China, an Australian oncologist aims to expand her watchdog project and keep the retractions coming.

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Open Access

Unlocking the Open - Europe PMC Integrates with Unpaywall

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Open Access

Unlocking the Open - Europe PMC Integrates with Unpaywall

Europe PMC, one of the largest free online open access repositories in the life sciences, has teamed up with Unpaywall to unlock even more content for their users (the SNSF is a Europe PMC funding group member).

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Equality
Gender
Careers

The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap

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Gender
Careers

The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women’s Pay Gap

Women who have their first child before 25 or after 35 eventually close the salary divide with their husbands. It’s the years in between that are most problematic, research shows.

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Misconduct

How Often Do Scientists Who Commit Misconduct Do It Again?

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How Often Do Scientists Who Commit Misconduct Do It Again?

When someone has to retract a paper for misconduct, what are the odds they will do it again? And how can we use that information to stop repeat offenders?

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Peer Review
Metrics
Impact

The More Revisions a Paper Undergoes, the Greater Its Subsequent Recognition in Terms of Citations

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Peer Review
Metrics
Impact

The More Revisions a Paper Undergoes, the Greater Its Subsequent Recognition in Terms of Citations

Some evidence showing that the more revisions a paper undergoes, the greater its subsequent recognition in terms of citation impact.

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Database

To What Extent Is Inclusion in the Web of Science an Indicator of Journal 'Quality'?

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Publishing
Database

To What Extent Is Inclusion in the Web of Science an Indicator of Journal 'Quality'?

Using WoS as a universalistic tool for research assessment can disadvantage science published in journals with adequate editorial standards and scientific merit.

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Business

In Latest Sign of Its Resurgence, Clarivate Acquires Kopernio

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In Latest Sign of Its Resurgence, Clarivate Acquires Kopernio

Today, Clarivate is announcing that it recently acquired Kopernio, a startup launched last year to streamline access to scholarly content.

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