Country profile: Switzerland

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.

The Right Metrics for Generation Open

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.

The growing impact of non-elite journals.

Video recordings of the conference entitled "The future of Europe is science". 6-7 October, Lisbon.

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.