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Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
A startup enables researchers to tap labs worldwide to conduct experiments on their behalf
“In the modern British university, it is not that funding is sought in order to carry out research, but that research projects are formulated in order to get funding.”
People working together can achieve more than they can alone; this is a fundamental principle upon which organizations are founded.
Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual "Wikipedia for data" to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia.
A selection of position papers submitted by stakeholders, to be presented at the workshops.
The estimated cost to UK research organisations of achieving compliance with OA mandates in 2013/2014.
Each country, scholarly field, and institution has developed responses to new scholarly communication systems, and those policies and responses influence the behavior of the scholars within those systems.
Europe's heavy administrative and bureaucratic burden makes collaborations difficult.
The quality and quantity of data on economic activity are expanding.
There are shifts in individual innovative productivity, which is manifested by the fact that the contribution of young scientists to science is getting smaller and – as a result of deepening of specialization – the dominance of teamwork increases.
The NSF released a compilation of statistics about its merit review process that will be of great interest to researchers.
In a comic format, AJAM presents a graphic novella about Big Data, privacy and the future of sharing.
An interview with Science Magazine's Deputy News Editor, Policy & Environment, David Malakoff on the topic of science policy reporting.
The free IPython notebook makes data analysis easier to record, understand and reproduce.
Note from Arthur Obermayer, friend of the author: In 1959, I worked as a scientist at Allied Research Associates in Boston. The company was an MIT spinoff that originally focused on the effects of nuclear weapons on aircraft structures.
Fang Zhouzi is a Chinese popular scientific writer who is also well known for his campaign against pseudoscience and fraud in China. But a few days ago, Fang Zhouzi has been erased.
I am increasingly seeing contradictory licensing statements on the websites of low-quality, questionable, and predatory publishers.
The proportion of federal research funding going to investigators older than 65 was greater than that going to researchers younger than 35, even if most Nobel recipients made their discoveries before they were 40 years old.
We’ve developed an enriched format for citations, called, appropriately enough, rich citations.
We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.
With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.
Cross-disciplinarity is found particularly in research project proposals of fields of science with clearly overlapping content and mainly in research proposals submitted by fields of science within the humanities and social sciences.
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
This paper is concerned with the measurement of citation impact and societal impact, and looks at the basis, the effects and the problems of impact measurement.
Video recordings of the conference entitled "The future of Europe is science". 6-7 October, Lisbon.