As lockdowns ease, Olivier Pourret hopes that academia will take on board lessons about how to redefine career success.
There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.
Now we know how suppression decisions are made, should metrics companies suppress titles at all or simply make the underlying data more transparent?
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies.
Tuition tax out, but orphan drug credit reduced.
New measures to reward scholars in the Netherlands could widen gender inequality if they are not designed and implemented correctly, warn four academics.
Analysis of millions of papers finds that junior biomedical researchers tend to work on more innovative topics than their senior colleagues do.
John Ioannidis argues that problem base, context placement, information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money, feasibility, and transparency define useful clinical research. He suggests most clinical research is not useful and reform is overdue.
Researchers should recognize communities that feel over-researched and under-rewarded.
Forty-three Chinese universities should be considered "very high" or "high" risk collaborators because of their involvement in research for military and defence purposes, according to an Australian think tank.
The findings of this study indicate that geographical biases affect public perception of research and influence the results of grant competitions.
Even women researchers are more likely to choose men to review their academic papers.
An improved architecture and enthusiastic user base are driving uptake of the open-source web tool.
Public communication on controversial issues has meant that science is more relevant than ever before. At the same time, it has made researchers vulnerable to attacks that undermine their credibility.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
In science, questions matter a lot. But as a young female scientist speaking up in a public forum, the stakes may just feel a little higher.
Some research funders have mandated in recent years that studies they finance be published in open-access journals, but they've given little attention to ensuring those studies include accessible writing.
When you pay for something, you expect to receive it. Whether a physical good or a service, there is the rightful expectation that you will receive something in exchange for your money. The same should be true for scientific research.
The concerns of the young protesters are justified.
Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling against this practice, arguing that obsessive use of indices is damaging the quality of science.
We fear and yearn for "the singularity." But it will probably never come.
Environmental scientists and policymakers value long-term research to an extent that far outstrips the amount of funding awarded for it.
End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.
Universities should reward more than research outputs.
A discussion of the common underpinning problems with the scientific and data analytic practices and point to tools and behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the problems with published scientific results.
For those interested in knowing what is in the world around them, the current news is disgusting. All US Environmental Protection Agency grants have been frozen, and employees are being prohibited from discussing the changes or talking to the public.
Modelled on big physics projects, the International Brain Lab will bring together some of the world’s pre-eminent neuroscientists to probe a single behaviour.
Summary of recent activities around OA monographs.
