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The number of female students considering university courses in STEM subjects has seen a bigger increase over the last seven years than for male students, according to new research.
Long-term study will monitor healthy people in detail — and encourage them to respond to the results
Why don't proposals given better scores by the NIH lead to more important research outcomes?
Die Einführung von Tenure Track-Modellen für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs ist in Deutschland neuerdings in aller Munde.
Although the representation of women and racial or ethnic minorities within the scientific community has increased in recent decades, the overall pace of diversification remains relatively slow.
Die Bedeutung von Drittmitteln in der universitären Forschung hat dramatisch zugenommen und wächst immer noch weiter.
Antonio Loprieno, Rektor der Uni Basel, im Interview
Survey on 40 research questions amongst science policy makers suggests that participatory exercises can establish priorities to guide funders of research.
A platform comparing research journal's performance aiming to make the peer review process more efficient.
Francis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak discuss initiatives that the US National Institutes of Health is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research.
Impactstory will be buying a new data stream: Twitter, G+, and Facebook data from Altmetric.com. Altmetric have spent years working on the thorny problem of connecting tweets with articles.
My campus survey shows a lack of female leadership in areas where women are underrepresented later in life.
Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?
Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.
A special issue of the EuroScientist focusing on the evolving solution for research evaluation
Le sociologue et historien des sciences Yves Gingras vient de publier "Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche. Du bon usage de la bibliométrie", chez Raison d'agir.
A report prepared by Elsevier for the UK's department of business, innovation and skills (BIS).
Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.
An increasing number of publishers and funding agencies require public data archiving (PDA) in open-access databases. PDA has obvious group benefits for the scientific community, but many researchers are reluctant to share their data publicly because of real or perceived individual costs.
The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.
A movement exploring the absence of Black Professors in UK higher education institutions.
Governments, funding agencies and universities must all do their bit to ensure that research is appropriately assessed and rewarded.
Fewer than half of those new to research can expect long-term academic careers There is a "significant credibility gap" between researchers' expectations and the likelihood of their forging long-term careers in higher education, a survey has found.
As public pressure builds for drug companies to make more results available from clinical trials, the industry should not forget that it relies on collective goodwill to test new therapies.
There are indeed concerns about the current science publishing model, but until major changes in grant funding are incorporated, researchers will continue to lust after publications in high-tier journals.
Over the past year, Jonathan Eisen's reading habits have changed dramatically. For most of the past 2 decades, he has kept up with scientific literature primarily by combing PubMed. But these days Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, discovers research relevant to his own work without even looking for it.
