The evolution of impact indicators: from bibliometrics to altmetrics
Ebook covering key insights about traditional and alternative research impact indicators.
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Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
Interdisciplinary research by the numbers
An analysis reveals the extent and impact of research that bridges disciplines.
DOI Event Tracker
Crossref will be introducing a new service that tracks activity surrounding a research work from potentially any web source where an event is associated with a DOI.
Using behavioral science insights to better serve the American people
Obama issues a new Executive Order directing agencies to use behavioral science.
Openness Initiative
An initiative to incentivise open research practices through peer review.
Social sciences and humanities faculties to close after ministerial decree
7 universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses.
Moedas to pick up from 150 scientists
More than 150 scientists have been nominated as prospective members of the European Commission's Science Advice Mechanism.
British universities slip downing global rankings
Change in methodology beneficial to ETHZ and EPFL.
"WikiGate" raises questions about Wikipedia's commitment to open access
Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.
Europe's technological irrelevance
Please, European universities, stop playing in the second league when it comes to fundraising. Go out and ask your alumni for resources to help you build the next Stanford.
It’s a matter of sticks and carrots
Bernard Rentier explains how the University of Liege persuaded nearly all its researchers to put their papers in its institutional repository.
How to catalyse collaboration
Turn the fraught flirtation between the social and biophysical sciences into fruitful partnerships with five principles.
Why Is Science So Straight?
STEM culture must rein in the pressure to separate professional and personal identities.
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access
Study was commissioned by Universities UK's Open Access Co-ordination Group.
Overflow in science and its implications for trust
‘Overflow’ has important implications for the integrity of modern biomedical science.
Scientific disintegrity as a public bad
Scientific dishonesty essentially results from an incentive problem.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
Gender studies and interdisciplinarity
Gender studies as an interdisciplinary field has a distinctive engagement with interdisciplinarity.
Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential
Nikola Tesla on gender equality and how technology will unleash women's true potential
One of Tesla’s predictions peers into the future of society’s changing gender roles and considers how the advent of wireless technology would empower women, liberating us to develop our full intellectual potential repressed by the patriarchy for centuries.
Women are funded more fairly in social science
UK data hold lessons for how to close the gender gap in bioscience grant applications, success and size, argue Paul Boyle and colleagues.
Report claims success for elite universities drive
Report praises US$5-billion scheme for making leading universities more competitive - but some smaller institutions have done just as well.
Agencies plan research-ethics overhaul
Long-awaited revision proposed for regulations governing studies of human subjects.
Discrete Analysis
Well-known mathematician, Tim Gowers, launches an arXiv.org-overlay journal "Discrete Analysis" with no charges for both readers and authors.
arXiv.org will use ORCID identifiers
arXiv will use ORCID iDs in preference to the internal arXiv author identifiers in order to facilitate better data exchange. The arXiv author identifiers will remain to provide local user profile pages.
Fifth retraction for Voinnet follows correction
After correcting a paper due to problematic figure panels, researchers led by Olivier Voinnet have now retracted it.
Preprints and the speed of science
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process. Preprints offer a way out.
Research funding should be 'simpler'
UK Minister for Universities and Science Jo Johnson wants to see a "simpler" research funding system as well as faster routes for private provider "challenger institutions" to enter higher education.
Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
In the US, taxpayers are said to be spending $139bn a year on research, and in the UK, £4.7bn. Too much of that money is disappearing into big pockets.
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