It's that time of the year, and the Brussels research community is urging policymakers to ensure there is enough money for the EU's Horizon Europe research programme in 2023.
The world’s most potent technologists are stranded in today’s innovation ecosystem.
England is abandoning lockdown and possibly hope of containing a second wave of covid-19.
Enormous databases do not necessarily allow scientists to solve long COVID mysteries, such as how well vaccination protects against the condition.
With funding cuts to major science agencies looming, it is now more important than ever for researchers to embrace transparency and data sharing.
A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers.
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
My PhD thesis research was a dead end, but that’s why it was important.
Ben McNeil, founder of thinkable.org, thinks our science funding mechanism is fundamentally broken. Here's why, and what he thinks we should do about it.
Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.
In recent years, increasing media exposure (measured by Altmetrics) did not relate to the equivalent citations as in earlier years; signaling a diminishing return on investment.
To help make the arXiv more accessible, a free, open pipeline on Kaggle to the machine-readable arXiv dataset: a repository of 1.7 million articles, with relevant features such as article titles, authors, categories, abstracts, full text PDFs, and more is made available.
More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.
The rush to expand policy engagement without understanding the goals for each side risks creating structures and processes that work for no one. Here's how to understand each other better.
Analysis of seven prominent medical journals finds randomised controlled trials are far less likely to receive a press release than weaker observational studies.
Involving Elsevier in the European Open Science Monitor is a grave mistake according to palaeontologist Jon Tennant.
Academic flying is often justified on the basis that international conferences and travel are important to the production of new knowledge. However, there is no clear relationship between the amount of travel undertaken by academics and the quality of their research.
Science hackathons can help academics, particularly those in the early stage of their careers, to build collaborations and write research proposals.
As a culture and a profession, medicine continues to systematically disadvantage women physicians at every stage of their careers.
Big data bibliometrics must take into account qualitative analyses of research as a social institution, rooted in history, economics and politics.
"We respect Ukrainian statehood … and we treat the European choice of our neighbours with understanding." So said some 650 Russian scientists and science journalists in an open letter last week criticising Moscow's onslaught against Ukraine.
