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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.
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson must act swiftly to appoint a respected scientist or engineer as his science and technology adviser.
Thanks to a $99,000 research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.
A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence.
A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.
Authors submitting a manuscript to eLife are encouraged to upload it to a recognized preprint server at the same time in order to make their results available as quickly and as widely as possible.
Navigating leave policies can be tricky, so postdocs need to be proactive and investigate all their resources.
High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.
In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.
When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.
The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Our work helps answer some of society's greatest challenges, but it's usually conveyed with technical language in journals most citizens never see.
Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.
