Can Paid Reviews Promote Scientific Quality and Offer Novel Career Perspectives for Young Scientists?
Can Paid Reviews Promote Scientific Quality and Offer Novel Career Perspectives for Young Scientists?
Community driven paid reviews could work in conjunction with a feed-back loop to young scientists. This promote the integration of reviews into an academic career.
Engaging Policy in Science Writing: Patterns and Strategies
Translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding of the institutional complexities of policy processes. This study developed a set of metrics to examine how researchers have undertaken that challenge.
A Deadly Coronavirus Was Inevitable. Why Was No One Ready?
Scientists warned of a coming pandemic for decades. Yet when Covid-19 arrived, the world had few resources and little understanding-despite years of work that outlined almost exactly what the virus would look like and how to mitigate its impact.
The Top 10 Scientific Surprises of Science News' First 100 Years
In the 100 years since Science News started reporting on it, science has offered up plenty of unexpected discoveries.
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
There Is an Absence of Scientific Authority over Research Assessment as a Professional Practice, Leaving a Gap That Has Been Filled by Database Providers
To what extent does the academic research field of evaluative citation analysis confer legitimacy to research assessment as a professional practice?
UK Needs Bigger Role for Science in Government, Says Chief Scientist
UK Needs Bigger Role for Science in Government, Says Chief Scientist
The UK's Chief Scientific Advisor says every government department needs to take science into consideration and invest more in R&D.
'Friendly' Reviewers Rate Grant Applications More Highly
Swiss funding agency banned applicant-nominated referees after a 2016 study found evidence of bias. Those results are now being made public.
Science Papers You Should Be Reading About the Coronavirus
Here are a few of the papers our scientists are reading that you might want to check out, too.
The Unexpected Reason Researchers Choose Open Access
Open-access publishing held to the same standards as paid subscription journals.
Women in Science Should Be the Norm, Not the Exception
This International Women's Day, let's start working towards ending gender discrimination in science for good.
Why Chinese Minds Still Bear the Long Shadow of Keju
Keju, China's incredibly difficult civil service test, strengthened the state at the cost of freedom and creativity.
The correlation between editorial delay and the ratio of highly cited papers
The correlation between editorial delay and the ratio of highly cited papers
Ideally, in a reviewing process, it is generally easier for referees to make faster and more reliable decisions for high quality papers, which ideally and on average will later attract more citations. Therefore, it is possible that the editorial delay time—the time between dates of submission and acceptance or publication—is correlated to the number of received citations, as has been weakly confirmed by previous studies.
Does US Science Have a Future in Antarctica? Trump Cuts Threaten to Cancel Fieldwork and More
10 reasons why Caltech is the world's number one university
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty uncovers the secrets behind the California Institute of Technology's extraordinary global success
Does "science" make you moral? The effects of priming science on moral judgments and behavior
Does "science" make you moral? The effects of priming science on moral judgments and behavior
Science stands as an ideological force insofar as it offers the answers to a variety of fundamental questions and concerns; as such, those who pursue scientific inquiry have been shown to be concerned with the moral and social ramifications of their scientific endeavors.
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.
Signs of 'citation Hacking' Flagged in Scientific Papers
An algorithm developed to spot abnormal patterns of citations aims to find scientists who have manipulated reference lists.
Grading the Presidential Candidates on Science
Scientific American evaluates responses from Clinton, Trump, Johnson and Stein to 20 questions
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever.
OpenScienceDB.com
Open Science DB is a grassroots movement led by graduate students in science who aspire to make scientific research more accessible to the public.
What would happen if grant reviews were made public?
Researchers on social media discuss the potential impact of making peer review more transparent.
Ukrainian Researchers Pressure Journals to Boycott Russian Authors
Most titles are still considering manuscripts irrespective of nationality - but Russia plans to remove a requirement for scientists to publish in foreign titles.
Experts Defend ERC from Commission Overreach in FP10
The European Commission's push to exert more control over the European Research Council (ERC) risks undermining one of the EU's most successful scientific institutions, policy experts warn.
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
Female students start to show more interest in science and engineering
The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
The "Problem" of Predatory Publishing Remains a Relatively Small One and Should Not Be Allowed to Defame Open Access
The "Problem" of Predatory Publishing Remains a Relatively Small One and Should Not Be Allowed to Defame Open Access
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive publishing practices, but the problem of predatory publishing was overstated while at the same time discrediting open access publishing.