14-15 November, Wellcome Trust, London.

7. November, Bern.

Interviews with Nobel prize winners on being awarded the Nobel prize.

UberResearch is a software solutions company which helps funding organizations, nonprofits, and governmental institutions make more informed decisions about science funding.

It seems that if there’s a market that we ought to be thinking about, it’s postdocs. Guest Post by Phill Jones, Head of Publisher Outreach for Digital Science.

A new interview series on the Reddit social news site this year allows scientists to answer questions whose responses are read by millions of readers.

A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK

Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.

The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.

A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.

Reflections on Science supervised by F. Heukelom, K. Landsman and M. Hagner of ETH Zurich.

In a new report says that the government must increase taxpayer investment in research and development to match that of the UK’s competitors.

Scientific visualization is classically defined as the process of graphically displaying scientific data. However, this process is far from direct or automatic.

A scientometric analysis of the UK

Scientific debates often blur the lines between the science that is being debated and the political, moral, and legal implications that come with its societal applications. This manuscript traces the origins of this phenomenon to professional norms within the scientific discipline.

The Scientific Foresight (STOA) Unit analyses the implications and options for future policy-making in science and technology related fields for the European Parliament.

We know that those Open Access policies that work are the ones that have teeth. Both institutional and funder policies work better when tied to reporting requirements.

We explore the feasibility and consequences of a Biblioleaks event for researchers, journals, publishers, and the broader communities of doctors and the patients they serve.

Researchers have put numbers on the “file drawer” phenomenon, in which scientists abandon results that they believe journals are unlikely to publish.

Sometimes, the brightest stars in science decide to leave. Nature finds out where they go.

Annual figures: offers of admission from U.S. graduate schools to prospective international students.

Introduction to the topics being discussed at the Auckland conference on ‘Science Advice to Governments’.

A number of suggestions for the new AAAS open access journal Science Advances.

The new EU data protection regulations adopted earlier this year by the European Parliament would undermine important research using personal data.

Papers retracted due to misconduct accounted for approximately $58 million in direct funding by the NIH between 1992 and 2012, less than 1% of the NIH budget over this period.

Switzerland is the world’s most innovative economy, followed by Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong and Finland, according to the GII 2014.

Visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review.

Position paper issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

While social media is a valuable tool for outreach and the sharing of ideas, there is a danger that this form of communication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.

This paper provides a glimpse of genesis of altmetrics in measuring efficacy of scholarly communications. This paper also highlights available altmetric tools and social platforms linking altmetric tools, which are widely used in deriving altmetric scores of scholarly publications.