There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. The authors of this article suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.
A brain drain of emigrating researchers might not be as bad as it sounds for Italy, according to an analysis that found that the worst-performing - as well as the best - researchers were leaving the country.
Researchers behind estimate say more needs to be done to raise public awareness of link
Applying an ‘EU preference’ to advanced science and technology will only increase Europe’s strategic vulnerabilities.
Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.
By creating journals that put a premium on replicability, grant-funding agencies can revolutionize the publishing landscape.
The new report, Presidential Recommendations for 2020: A Blueprint for Defending Science and Protecting the Public, outlines a suite of recommendations that the next president can take to protect the health and safety of the public through restoring science to government decisionmaking processes. The report focuses on strengthening three major principles underlying science-based decisionmaking: independence, transparency, and free speech.
Narrative academic CVs present a means to bypass aspects of a research evaluation culture that is focused on the volume and venue of publications. Drawing on work promoting this format, researchers show how these texts more often foreground the problems they are meant to address, than how the format works in practice.
Science ministry is eliminated in Argentina while budget cuts and inflation hamper labs’ daily operations.
Women leaders around the world have had considerably more success in slowing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and two economists based in the United Kingdom can now explain why.
India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.
Japan’s contribution to world-class research continues to decline, despite having one of the world’s largest research communities, according to a report by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Contemporary science has been characterized by an exponential growth in publications and a rise of team science. At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of awarded PhD degrees, which has not been accompanied by a similar expansion in the number of academic positions.
Most antibody tests are useful only for large population surveys, diagnosis in certain children or when initial diagnostic testing fails, according to an expert panel.
Humanities and social science defunding sparks outrage in New Zealand.
As public pressure builds for drug companies to make more results available from clinical trials, the industry should not forget that it relies on collective goodwill to test new therapies.
Why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?
A new trend in scientific misconduct involves listing fake coauthors on one’s publication. I trace some of the incentives behind faking coauthors, using them to highlight important changes in global science publishing like the increasingly important source of credibility provided by institutional affiliations, which may begin to function like ‘brands’.
Stories of juggling parenting and fieldwork, and argue that more should be done to help retain scientist-parents, particularly women, in academia.
The American Physical Society's new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.
I wasn’t surprised to learn I hadn’t been selected for a prestigious postdoc fellowship. I had applied mostly hoping for feedback that would improve my application the following year. But comments from two reviewers made me rethink my plan to apply again—and even whether to continue in academia.
When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change and new technology. But if people stop trusting science, it's easier for false information to spread, and harder to solve those problems.
Open science will make science more efficient, reliable and responsive to societal challenges. The European Commission has sought to advance Open Science policy from its inception in a holistic and integrated way, covering all aspects of the research cycle from scientific discovery and review to sharing knowledge, publishing and outreach.
