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The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.

Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court

Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court

Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale.

Scientists Have Most Impact When They're Free to Move

Scientists Have Most Impact When They're Free to Move

An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R.

Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead

Google’s AI chief says forget Elon Musk’s killer robots, and worry about bias in AI systems instead

John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.

$8.3 Million Grant From NSF Will Help UCLA Spread Technology Behind Mini Microscope

$8.3 Million Grant From NSF Will Help UCLA Spread Technology Behind Mini Microscope

When mounted on an animal’s head, the "miniscope" enables scientists to observe neurons firing, and even the creation of memories.

The Problem with Nobel Prizes and the Myth of the Lone Genius

The Problem with Nobel Prizes and the Myth of the Lone Genius

Jenny Rohn: Restricting Nobel prizes to three individuals has always been problematic, and increasingly glosses over the contributions of everyday scientists.

U.S. Trio Win Nobel for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves

U.S. Trio Win Nobel for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves

Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Method to Visualise Biomolecules

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Method to Visualise Biomolecules

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.

Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People

Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People

1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.

Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub

Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub

The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers and search engines. 

LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel

LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel

The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick

AI Could Tell You When You're About to Get Sick

An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data?

Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.

Scraping Google Scholar to Write your PhD Literature Chapter

Scraping Google Scholar to Write your PhD Literature Chapter

This post is about a prototype ‘network’ approach to finding papers using data from Google Scholar.