We Should Make It Easy for People to Bring Great Tech Ideas to Market—but We're Doing the Opposite
We Should Make It Easy for People to Bring Great Tech Ideas to Market—but We're Doing the Opposite
The world’s most potent technologists are stranded in today’s innovation ecosystem.
In the Age of Trump, Open Science Is Crucial
With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.
Open Knowledge Maps - a Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge
Open Knowledge Maps - a Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge
A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
France prefers to pay (twice) for papers by its researchers
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers.
SSRN has been captured by the enemy of open knowledge
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
An Experiment That Didn't Work
My PhD thesis research was a dead end, but that’s why it was important.
Could crowdfunding rejuvenate science?
Ben McNeil, founder of thinkable.org, thinks our science funding mechanism is fundamentally broken. Here's why, and what he thinks we should do about it.
Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.
Tweet Success? Scientific Communication Correlates with Increased Citations in Ecology and Conservation
Tweet Success? Scientific Communication Correlates with Increased Citations in Ecology and Conservation
In recent years, increasing media exposure (measured by Altmetrics) did not relate to the equivalent citations as in earlier years; signaling a diminishing return on investment.
Journals give more publicity to 'weak science'
Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies.
Science hackathons for developing interdisciplinary research and collaborations
Science hackathons for developing interdisciplinary research and collaborations
Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.
Why Does America Still Have so few Female Doctors?
As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers.
Scholarly Communications Shouldn't Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too
The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
The World’s Largest Producer of Scientific Articles
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Consumer-oriented websites allow researchers to compare the merits of scientific journals and review their publishing experiences..
A Very Quick Intro to Blockchain and Open Scholarship
Everybody talks about Blockchain these days, but why should we consider this technology when thinking about Open Scholarship?
Using Preprints for Journal Clubs
Including preprints rather than focusing completely on published papers in journal clubs might benefit the scientific enterprise in numerous ways, including by providing direct criticisms to preprint authors before publication, deemphasizing publishing venue, teaching students the art of reviewing papers, and making journal clubs more current by discussing unpublished data.
Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?
Why the referees' reports I receive as an editor are so much better than the reports I receive as an author?
Authors tend to attribute manuscript acceptance to their own ability to write quality papers and simultaneously to blame rejections on negative bias in peer review, displaying a self-serving attributional bias.
What Should Be the Essential Baseline Practices for Repositories That Manage Research Data?
What Should Be the Essential Baseline Practices for Repositories That Manage Research Data?
COAR and SPARC have published a joint response to the OSTP Request for Public Comment on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting From Federally Funded Research. Good data management is critical for ensuring validation, transparency of research findings, as well as to maximize impact and value of publicly-funded research through data reuse.
Announcing Reformscape: a New Online Tool to Explore Responsible Academic Career Assessment and Drive Positive Change | DORA
Announcing Reformscape: a New Online Tool to Explore Responsible Academic Career Assessment and Drive Positive Change | DORA
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is delighted to announce the launch of Reformscape – a new online resource enabling the global academic community to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse.
Dealing with Spam Emails 'Costs Academia More Than Peer Review'
Study suggests that 'predatory' spam targeted specifically at scholars costs universities $1.1 billion annually.
Why US Health Funding Cuts Are Rattling Swiss Science
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They're Battling Outbreaks.
More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.
Ten Reasons to Move to Germany As a Researcher
Why Germany is becoming a career destination for many researchers.
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
Author-paid publication fees, often associated with so-called “gold” open access journals, lead to the corruption of science by incentivizing the publication of low-quality research and exacerbate inequalities between institutions that are prestigious and well-funded and those that are less so. The authors recommend a total abandonment of author-paid publication fees for academic research, the publication of which is typically a public good yet serves to enrich publishers while degrading research outputs.
Research Security in Europe Needs a More Coordinated Approach
Survey of national efforts reveals uneven but developing picture, say Andrew James and Kieron Flanagan
A Data Citation Roadmap for Scientific Publishers
A practical roadmap for scholarly publishers to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP).