The SciELO Program has launched the SciELO Preprints server with the aim of accelerating the availability of research articles and other scientific communications before, or in parallel with, their evaluation and validation by scientific journals through the peer review process. Although open to all thematic areas, SciELO Preprints will focus on immediately serving communications related to COVID-19.
Some scientists make their careers by criticising other's research. But who watches the watchmen?
For most young researchers, academic research is the love of their life. But how much can and should be sacrificed for this love?
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards.
Scientists and funders with close links to local communities outline how Western teams can collaborate fairly and effectively with those groups.
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.
Executive compensation at private and public colleges.
Images of men wearing a blue medical face mask perceived as being the most attractive.
The scramble to get academic research funded contributes to society's inability to handle issues such as climate change.
The entrepreneur and author on how universities can create a healthy working culture
Changes to the social media platform make further use “untenable”
Analyzing three decades' worth of PubMed-indexed abstracts, scientists find a notable increase in the frequency of positive words, like "innovative" and "novel", over time.
In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks.
[3]Opinion piece that calls for bioethics to ‘get out of the way’ prompts self-reflection among ethicists.
As we slowly emerge from the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, one thing is clear - it has brought to the front various aspects of gender equality issues in Research and Innovation (R&I), writes Marcela Linkova.
As the US president's first year in office ends, Nature assesses whether he's kept his promise to make evidence-based decisions.
Many academics have internalised the pressure to police disciplinary boundaries, and keep their heads down and in their faculties.
New measures to reward scholars in the Netherlands could widen gender inequality if they are not designed and implemented correctly, warn four academics.
The findings of this study indicate that geographical biases affect public perception of research and influence the results of grant competitions.
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
Research organisations need to be able to identify which proposals are the best for funding, and which researchers should be appointed or promoted. Science Europe has collated a set of policy recommendations to ensure that assessments of research quality are effective, efficient, and fair.
Report to the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SSIC.
The European Commission is working on an investment plan to fuel the EU’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, which Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said must increase the “firepower” of the bloc’s 2021-27 budget, and R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel has said must prioritise investment in R&D.
Universities should reward more than research outputs.
Positive results are exciting, but the interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science.
