The 1st Altmetrics Conference: London, 25.-26.9.2014

Open access science articles are read and cited more often than articles available only to subscribers, a study has suggested.

It is known that statistically significant results are more likely to be published than results that are not statistically significant. We conducted a search in the abstracts of papers published between 1990 and 2014. The results indicate that negative results are not disappearing, but have actually become 4.3 times more prevalent since 1990. Positive results, on the other hand, have become 13.9 times more prevalent since 1990.

This document is the annual work programme for the European Research Council funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

Earlier this year, at a symposium organized by Nature in Melbourne, Australia, a group of leading academics, funders and government advisers discussed how research outcomes are measured. This Nature Outlook was influenced by these debates.

Retractions of scientific papers have recently been in the spotlight. Unfortunately, the interpretation of statistics about them is often flawed. Evidence suggests that retractions have grown not because of rising misconduct, but because scientists have become more aware of and responsive against fraudulent and flawed research.

An open research proposal calling for open research proposals and funding transparency.

Young researchers, especially women, are more likely to be sexually harassed or assaulted when they are doing fieldwork than in the office.

Libraries are in a good position to push Open Access even further, as they currently fully pay the production costs of the traditional subscription model.

Realising the innovative potential of digital research methods: a call from the research community.

America is a leader in funding for biomedical research, from government, industry, and the non-profit sector. And, for such a large country, the research community is remarkably spread out, with high-quality work being done in every region of the nation.

With responses to both the 2013 and 2014 survey given side-by-side, you can easily see how attitudes have changed. Alongside this, the 2014 survey explores many new areas and gives a fascinating insight into authors' current perceptions of open access.

Using our data to predict tomorrow's biggest scientific and technological breakthroughs.

The desire for better evidence for public management, a growing movement calling for open access to the results of publicly funded research and the vastly increased power of computing and communications coincide to support policy interest in steering and sharing research results and data about them.

Male PI prefer male Postdocs.

Highly fragmented and competitive system can undermine efforts to foster groundbreaking research.

Romance often sparks between colleagues, and scientists are no different. Nature profiles four super-couples who have combined love and the lab.

First-author publications count far more than middle-author publications.

The Research Council of Norway has launched a new databank: an open, interactive tool enabling anyone to instantly customise statistical overviews of Research Council grants dating back to 1997. Soon in English.

Open access to publications and data in Horizon 2020: Frequently Asked Questions.

Why has academic knowledge become more expensive for consumers while music has become less expensive, and what can we do about it? Doing nothing to prevent the trading of electronic copies of our academic work could act to circumvent the perils of engagement with the academic publishing industry.

The expanding economies of South America have led to a significant rise in scientific output over the past two decades, and research spending has increased in most countries. But given the region's share of the world's population and GDP, publication rates still fall short of what would be expected.

Report based on a U.S. survey conducted by Pew Research Center with Smithsonian magazine and featured in a special issue of the magazine on science and science fiction.

Studie der Sozialforschungsstelle der Universtität Zürich.

The lower bound number of scholarly documents, published in English, available on the web is roughly 114 million.

Studie zur Mobilität der Wissenschafter.

Algorithm based on publications finds that first-author articles in leading journals matter most.

Report based on four workshops organized by the initiators of Science in Transition in the spring of 2013.

Collection of articles dedicated to altmetrics.

Completing a Marie Curie Fellowship does have beneficial impacts on a researcher’s career prospects. These positive effects are more marked for academic researchers, while there is room for improving collaboration and mutual benefits with the private sector.