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An Optimist Takes the Helm at the National Science Foundation
Sethuraman Panchanathan has spent his career finding "win-win" situations
Research Communication: Ways to Increase Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group calls for radical changes at eLife and other journals to make science more diverse and inclusive.
The New ERA Must Do More for Gender Equality
As we slowly emerge from the coronavirus outbreak in Europe, one thing is clear - it has brought to the front various aspects of gender equality issues in Research and Innovation (R&I), writes Marcela Linkova.
Spain's Coronavirus Antibodies Study Adds Evidence Against Herd Immunity
Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.
Open Up: a Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing
Our aim is to highlight the benefits and limitations of open and non-anonymized peer review. Our argument is based on the literature and on responses to a survey on the reviewing process of alt.chi, a more or less open review track within the so-called Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference, the predominant conference in the field of human-computer interaction. This track currently is the only implementation of an open peer review process in the field of human-computer interaction while, with the recent increase in interest in open scientific practices, open review is now being considered and used in other fields. We ran an online survey with 30 responses from alt.chi authors and reviewers, collecting quantitative data using multiple-choice questions and Likert scales. Qualitative data were collected using open questions. Our main quantitative result is that respondents are more positive to open and non-anonymous reviewing for alt.chi than for other parts of the CHI conference. The qualitative data specifically highlight the benefits of open and transparent academic discussions. The data and scripts are available on https://osf.io/vuw7h/ , and the figures and follow-up work on http://tiny.cc/OpenReviews . While the benefits are quite clear and the system is generally well-liked by alt.chi participants, they remain reluctant to see it used in other venues. This concurs with a number of recent studies that suggest a divergence between support for a more open review process and its practical implementation.
Impact Factor Volatility Due to a Single Paper: A Comprehensive Analysis
Publication questions the reliability of Impact Factor (IF) rankings given the high IF sensitivity to a few papers that affects thousands of journals.
ODI Summit 2020 - The ODI
The Open Data Institute invites people from across the globe to join and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.
Chemistry's Reproducibility Crisis That You've Probably Never Heard of
Chemistry's Reproducibility Crisis That You've Probably Never Heard of
Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers.
Swissuniversities and Springer Nature Sign a New Open Access Agreement
swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature. This agreement provides Swiss researchers with access to SpringerLink with over 2’000 Hybrid journals and enables authors affiliated with the Swiss academic and research institutions to publish their accepted research papers Open Access, making this primary research immediately and freely accessible from the point of publication.
Ten Years of the Sun in One Hour - Nasa Releases Mesmerising Space Film
The space agency gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the sun, which have now been stitched together to form the video.
Dutch on Board
The SNSF and the Dutch Research Council have agreed to finance joint projects. This will make it much easier for Swiss researchers to collaborate with their Dutch counterparts.
Covid-19: Are Pandemics Becoming More Common?
Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.
Dinosaurs Wiped out by Asteroid, Not Volcanoes, Researchers Say
Study says surge in volcanic activity could not have caused Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event.
There Should Never Be Heroes in Science
Some scientists make their careers by criticising other's research. But who watches the watchmen?
Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up
Publishers have had a good 355 years, but change is coming.
Mis-allocated Scrutiny
In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly?
Open Economics: Study on Open Science Principles and Practice in Economics
There is wide agreement with the principles of Open Science in economics. This is shown by a ZBW study. However, there is still room for development regarding the implementation of Open Science on a b
Virtual Event Awards
Code for Science & Society aim to improve access to open data science practices and tools and support communities in open data science to grow sustainably and inclusively.
Overcoming Barriers to Cross-cultural Cooperation in AI Ethics and Governance
Overcoming Barriers to Cross-cultural Cooperation in AI Ethics and Governance
Achieving the global benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) will require international cooperation on many areas of governance and ethical standards, while allowing for diverse cultural perspectives and priorities.
RoRI Announces Partners and First Wave of Projects
Following an intense period of consultation and co-design, we are excited to unveil our first wave of projects, which will run for the remainder of RoRI's pilot phase (until autumn 2021). We are also delighted to announce our partners, who will be collaborating in the design and delivery of these projects.
View of The Costly Prestige Ranking of Scholarly Journals
The prestige ranking of scholarly journals is costly to science and to society.
Citizen Science in a Pandemic: A Fleeting Moment or New Normal?
One interesting and unintended consequence of the current pandemic has been an increase in people’s engagement with citizen science.
ALLEA Launches Open Science Task Force
ALLEA has launched a task force dedicated to open science and chaired by Luke Drury (Royal Irish Academy).
Impact factor volatility due to a single paper: A comprehensive analysis
This publication shows how a single paper affects the impact factor (IF) of a journal by analyzing data from 3,088,511 papers published in 11639 journals in the 2017 Journal Citation Reports of Clarivate Analytics.
COVID-19 Knowledge Map - CoVis
CoVis provides a curated knowledge map of seminal works on COVID-19 research. The knowledge map is constantly evolving thanks to the collective editing of subject-matter experts.
Are COVID-19 Deaths "sacrifices"? If So, to What?
In late March of this year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick suggested in an interview that many people over 70-himself included-would be willing to risk contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) so as not to, in his words, "sacrifice the country." At the time, his comments were widely re
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