A web application showing how successful universities or research-focused institutions collaborate.
International financial institutions say that vaccines are the highest-return investment on Earth - it is past time for them to pay up.
Scientists' work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But what if it's not the best way to do science?
Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change
It is extraordinary that the museum is receiving funding from a fossil fuel giant for an exhibition on, of all things, the climate, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
Last year, NIH implemented a policy to push scientists to consider how sex affects biological systems. Critics worry it goes too far.
Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension".
Cao Xuetao, president of Nankai University, will be barred from applying for grants for lax lab management.
In another candid interview, the NIAID director explains how he tries to counters White House optimism with "reality".
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
A contest with $300,000 in prize money aims to improve molecular assays needed to test aging treatments.
There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals.
IEEE to provide more high-quality options for authors and researchers.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, science is crucial to inform public policy. At the same time, mistrust of scientists and misinformation about scientific facts are rampant. Six scientists, actively involved in outreach, reflect on how to build a better understanding and trust of science.
Voluntary model contracts could boost researcher mobility and set standards for career development, says Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.
We ran data on the scientific publications of 37 laureates of the Nobel prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The results showed that those laureates have produced knowledge that has been taken up in innovation more widely than the work of the average US or world scientist.
This post explores how scholarly publishing should relate to scholarly communication. Ostensibly aligned, publishing and communication have diverged. Some processes involved in scholarly publishing are getting in the way of optimal scholarly communication, as the present pandemic amply reveals.
This study contributes to a growing understanding of individual- and institution-level factors that may influence academic researcher engagement with research coproduction.
