Nominations Now Open for ORCID Board Elections 2020
The ORCID Nominations Committee is now welcoming nominations for Board members to serve from 2020 - 2022. Learn how, when and why to get involved.
Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging Behind
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.
Princton University joins lawsuit challenging federal cap on research overhead costs, citing threat to scientific innovation
Princton University joins lawsuit challenging federal cap on research overhead costs, citing threat to scientific innovation
Princeton University and 15 other leading research institutions and academic associations have filed a lawsuit against the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Research on Research Institute Launches to Enable More Strategic, Open, Diverse, and Inclusive Research
Research on Research Institute Launches to Enable More Strategic, Open, Diverse, and Inclusive Research
Announcing the launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), an international consortium of research funders, academic institutions, and technologists working to champion the latest approaches to research on research.
These Black Holes Shouldn't Exist, but There They Are
On the far side of the universe, a collision of dark giants sheds light on an invisible process of cosmic growth.
Covid-19: Are Pandemics Becoming More Common?
Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.
The Rat Race for Research Funding Delays Scientific Progress
The scramble to get academic research funded contributes to society's inability to handle issues such as climate change.
Our Imaginations Can Help Create New Climate Possibilities
The human species' capacity to imagine can help create new and more hopeful climate realities and boost citizen engagement, researchers maintain.
EU Proposal on Research Careers Seen As a Step in Right Direction, but Falling Short on Ambition
EU Proposal on Research Careers Seen As a Step in Right Direction, but Falling Short on Ambition
The European Commission's long-awaited proposal to improve career pathways for researchers put forward last week is viewed an important step in the right direction, but advocates want to see more ambition and political pressure to usher in change.
Stop expecting researchers to fix research
Systemic problems require institutional solutions—and ideas from industry—say Marcus Munafò and Neil Jacobs.
Where Do Scholars Move? Measuring the Mobility of Researchers Across Academic Institutions
The Rise of Citizen Social Science Raises More Questions About Social Science Than It Answers
The Rise of Citizen Social Science Raises More Questions About Social Science Than It Answers
The true potential of citizen social science, whereby members of the public participate in the investigation and analysis of social phenomena, remains to be realised.
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.
Bullied Abroad: How Foreign Researchers Can Fight Back
Bullied Abroad: How Foreign Researchers Can Fight Back
Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation, including threats to cancel visas. But they can take action.
Five Reasons Why COVID Herd Immunity is Probably Impossible
Even with vaccination efforts in full force, the theoretical threshold for vanquishing COVID-19 looks to be out of reach.
Can We Measure Trust in Scientific Publications?
A constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research.
More than 60 German Universities and Research Institutions Leave X
More than 60 German Universities and Research Institutions Leave X
Changes to the social media platform make further use “untenable”
Politicians Vastly Overestimate Public Opposition to Climate Policies, Study Finds
Politicians Vastly Overestimate Public Opposition to Climate Policies, Study Finds
Study involving 100 sitting MPs in the UK reveals gulf between perceptions of the political class and realities of public attitudes on environmental issues such as insulation and green taxes. MPs also think the UK electorate is far more divided than it is over climate policies. Researchers find statistical evidence for a ‘spiral of silence’ effect in the British Parliament.
No Amount of Open Access Will Fix the Broken Job Market
Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.
Biomedical Research Falls Short at Factoring in Sex and Gender
Despite policies that endorse more inclusiveness, incentives work against including female subjects in experiments.
EU and US Commit More Funding for Ukrainian Research
Funding from Horizon Europe and US philanthropic organisations has near and long-term support objectives
African Research Administrators Push for More Collaboration
Sarima 2025: Calls grow for unified African voice in research management and innovation
Why Creativity in Science Matters and Three Ways to Achieve It
Creativity is critical to the future of work. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 ranked analytical thinking and creative thinking as the first and second most important skills that workers will need to have in the future.
Don't Forget Bottom-up Research, Industry Tells EU Commission
Europe should not forget fundamental and bottom-up research as it looks to channel more resources to strategic technologies that will be crucial for its competitiveness, the business community is warning.
Two-thirds of Researchers Report 'pressure to Cite' in Nature Poll
Readers say they have been asked to reference seemingly superfluous studies after peer review.
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy
The Manchester Team within the Oslo Institute for Research on the Impact of Science centre has published this a conceptual paper that underpins the empirical work on framework conditions on the user side combining various political science and sociological theories.
Scholar-led.network: New Support for Scientific Publication Projects
The scholar-led.network is an alliance of Open Access stakeholders that was constituted at the beginning of 2021 as a “digital focus group” in the context of the project “open-access.network”.
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