How can research produce more value in the absence of coordination? An opinion piece by Daniel Ropers, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature.
Science communication should be more than the dissemination of results to the public; it should also flow in the other direction, with members of the public able to communicate their priorities to scientists and those who fund them. But how?
Do Swiss researchers share their data with other researchers and with the public? And if not, why? Which data repositories and other channels do they use for data sharing? A large-scale survey by the SNSF and swissuniversities offers some answers.
In the three years since it ended, the pandemic has become an object of obsession for scientists, who have published more than 6,000 research papers about it. What did they conclude?
Read the joint response to the implementation guidance forPlan S as issued by three organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe.
Over the last few years, I have spent a lot of time thinking, speaking, and discussing about the reproducibility crisis in scientific research. An obvious but hard to answer question is: Why has reproducibility become such a major problem, in so many disciplines? And why now?
Scientific code is not production software. Scientific code participates in the evaluation of a scientific hypothesis. This imposes specific constraints on the code that are often overlooked in practice.
The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster.
If nations and their research institutions are to produce more impactful science, they need to encourage scientists to travel, collaborate and work across borders.
An unbending reward system prevents early-career researchers taking full advantage of the digital world.
Despite progress, female researchers remain a minority and publish fewer papers.
How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
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How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
To ease the transition to a future professorship, trainees should spend some of their time on activities other than research, our contributors explain
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Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.
Sneha Kulkarni from Editage takes a look at the ever-increasing global scientific output, and asks questions about quantity versus quality.
Scientists ought to address the needs and employment prospects of taxpayers who have seen little benefit from scientific advances.
Researchers working at the interface of disciplines can pursue insights without sacrificing career progress.
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits.
HHMI meeting examines ways to improve manuscript vetting: little consensus on whether reviewers should have to publicly sign their critiques, which traditionally are accessible only to editors and authors.
