Peer review beyond trust: why the system must evolve
Emerging challenges are exposing limits to a system that was not designed to withstand. Peer review is at an inflection point.
Where is the UK Science Minister? Government's Plans Worry Researchers
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has yet to appoint someone to oversee research, and her economic policy has sparked a currency crisis.
How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project
The project included more than 200 researchers around the world, about 40 of them women, including Dr. Bouman.
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset
Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.
Death of EPA's Controversial 'censored Science' Rule Delights Researchers
Death of EPA's Controversial 'censored Science' Rule Delights Researchers
Lengthy battle over regulators' use of confidential data ends in Montana courtroom.
Why So Many Americans Are Losing Trust in Science
Dr. Mandy Cohen has been on a national tour. The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she aims to rebuild trust in that troubled agency at a moment when Covid-19 cases are rising again and the Biden administration has begun a new vaccine campaign.
New Science Blooms After Star Researchers Die, Study Finds
Deaths of prominent life scientists tend to be followed by a surge in highly cited research by newcomers.
Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation
Good Practices in Mission-oriented Innovation Strategies and Their Implementation
Modern innovation policies should target in equal measure both economic competitiveness and societal progress. They should be informed by ambitious, overarching principles-based strategies that enable us to formulate specific political goals, or missions. We also need governance structures that allow for the agile, participatory and inclusive implementation of innovation policy measures. Presenting good examples of such strategies and structures, this study examines what these examples have to offer in terms of lessons learned.
Enhancing the Right to Science
Enhancing the right to science is increasingly recognized as a central piece in the multi-facetted puzzle of solving the triple planetary crisis. Its role as a cross-cutting catalyst in relation to other human rights dimensions of major global challenges from pandemics, biodiversity, toxics to climate change, calls for far more comprehensive attention to the bundle of rights linking science, scientists and scientific practice to contemporary sustainability responses
NIH to experiment with high-risk grants
NIH considers supporting more individual researchers rather than projects.
Why It Would Be a Dangerous Folly to End US-China Science Pact
Plan S and Open Access in Latin America
Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.
Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed
Grass-roots Grant-writing Approaches Can Help Researchers at Small Institutions to Succeed
Why Hasn’t the Academy Taken Back Control of Publishing Already?
Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?
Why Academic Administration Was the Right Choice for Me
I found job satisfaction and exciting opportunities in supporting other academics - but it's a career path that many don't consider. Try it.
More Horizon Europe Draft Work Programmes Leak Online
Science|Business has published an exhaustive but unapproved draft Horizon Europe work programme detailing the calls for climate and mobility projects for the next two years and an early draft outlining bioeconomy, food and environment calls.
Why Telling People They Don't Need Masks Backfired
To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.
Research Funding in Focus: Even More Transparent Thanks to Data Stories
Research Funding in Focus: Even More Transparent Thanks to Data Stories
The SNSF meticulously examines its funding activities. From now on, it will publish these analyses on its data portal. To kick things off, Open Access, ERC grants and women scientists during the pandemic are in focus.
Scientific Publishing: The First Year of a New Era
Octopus: a Radical New Approach to Scientific Publishing
In order to align incentives with good science, we need to move to a system in which work that is well thought-out, well carried-out, and well communicated – regardless of the ‘story’ it tells – is given the highest reward. Changing what is rewarded will change what is done.
How to Tell a Compelling Story in Scientific Presentations
State your main finding in your title, and don't forget to use the word 'but', says Bruce Kirchoff.
Beyond Impact Factor, H-Index and University Rankings: Evaluate Science in More Meaningful Ways
Beyond Impact Factor, H-Index and University Rankings: Evaluate Science in More Meaningful Ways
Swiss Academy of Sciences conference on metrics and assessment.
The Pandemic Appears to Have Spared Africa So Far. Scientists Are Struggling to Explain Why.
Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced
Winners Of The 2022 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founding sponsors today announced the winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes, awarding a total of $15.75 million to an esteemed group of laureates and early-career scientists.
Will the Pandemic Permanently Alter Scientific Publishing?
The push for rapid and open publishing could take off - although financial pressures lie ahead: part 4 in a series on science after the pandemic.