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ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research.
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.
Science is endangered by statistical misunderstanding, and by university presidents and research funders who impose perverse incentives on scientists.
A peer-reviewed journal targeting computational research and encouraging the explicit replication of already published research.
The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.
Study finds that people aren’t great at spotting fake images.
Major evaluation of country’s research landscape also found that internationalisation was a key area for improvement.
One of the top journals in political science makes data-sharing and replication part of the publication process.
From declining royal honour to refusing to sit for a portrait, correspondences show co-discoverer of evolutionary theory avoiding publicity.
These institutions join around 60 others that hope to put increasing pressure on the publishing giant in ongoing negotiations for a new nationwide licensing agreement.
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.
An Iranian mathematician who was the only woman ever to win a Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics, died on Saturday. She was 40.
Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center.
Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.
The bibliometric system and the rules which accompany it have created an environment in which many if not most researchers can be identified as transgressors.
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
“My university's resources to combat abusive supervisors are laughably ineffective.”
Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.
Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.
