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The research blog has become a popular mechanism for the quick discussion of scholarly information. However, the characteristics of this form of scientific discourse are not well understood, for example in terms of the spread of blogger levels of education, gender and institutional affiliations.
A brief history of science funding.
A variety of international, national, and private granting organizations require sex and gender analysis.
A presentation given at North Carolina State University regarding how scientists, early in their careers, can take advantage of the online tools available today.
The only U.S. senator to receive a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) says one of her top priorities in her first term is to increase federal support for academic research and eliminate restrictions on NSF funding for political science research.
The end of Russian science or the start of a new era? Either way, the government's reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences has fuelled a vicious debate. Fiona Clark reports from Moscow.
The next president of the European Research Council will face the dual challenge of preserving the agency’s reputation for excellence while trying to address funding inequalities.
Rigorous analyses are needed to establish the benefits of the knowledge economy, says former Irish government science adviser Patrick Cunningham.
Although approximately 50% of PhD students and postdoctoral scientists are female, males run the majority of research laboratories. Despite some reform over the past three decades, there is still an exodus of female scientists from academic research at the transitional stage between a postdoctoral researcher and laboratory head.
Science communication should be more than the dissemination of results to the public; it should also flow in the other direction, with members of the public able to communicate their priorities to scientists and those who fund them. But how?
Relate your data to the world around them using the age-old custom of telling a story.
I am interested in copyright law, and especially interested in the inefficiencies and loopholes that have developed in a majority of creative industries as they have undergone the shift from analog to digital formats.
Researchers are rewarded for splashy findings, not for double-checking accuracy. So many scientists looking for cures to diseases have been building on ideas that aren't even true.
How big a role do unconventional combinations of existing knowledge play in the impact of a scientific paper? A new study shows that the highest-impact papers were not the ones that had the greatest novelty, but had a combination of novelty and otherwise conventional combinations of prior work.
This issue on Open Access marks the 10-year anniversary of PLOS Biology, and it's as good a time as any to pause and take stock of how the last decade.
Reproducibility Initiative Receives $1.3M Grant to Validate 50 Landmark Cancer
It's been just over a decade since the concept of Open Access first captured the attention of the scientific and scholarly research community.
Business Key documents for Horizon 2020 are circulating on the Internet. The Commission needs to put order into the timely and fair distribution of this information.
In this essay, we describe why article-level metrics are an important extension of traditional citation-based journal metrics and provide a number of example from Article-level metrics data collected for PLOS Biology.
The process of applying for research funds has been simplified into a single set of evaluation criteria
Building the Models and Analytics for an Open Access Future.
A senior official from the European Union has visited Israel to inform the government that it will find a solution to ensure Israel's participation in the scientific Horizon 2020 project, Haaretz newspaper has claimed.
One year after launching the ORCID Registry, we are excited to be releasing our first Public Data File. This file contains a snapshot of all public data in the ORCID Registry associated with an ORCID record that was created or claimed by an individual.
Research repository launches comment platform for post-publication peer review.
Les raisons d'une exception française analyse l'insertion professionnelle des docteurs en France. Le nombre de doctorats délivrés est faible au regard des sortants chaque année du système éducatif et des effectifs de l'enseignement supérieur.
Tilmann Warnecke Der Wissenschaftsrat will Unirankings neu erfinden, doch auch sein "Forschungsrating" ist umstritten. Jetzt soll es auf bis zu 25 Fächer ausgeweitet werden. Der Wissenschaftsrat hält an seinem umstrittenen „Forschungsrating" fest und will es in den kommenden Jahren auf bis zu 25 Fächer ausweiten.
Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says Peter Suber.
Many of the biggest problems in science are tackled through sustained efforts over years or decades. But if science is a long-term endeavour, why are funding and careers so fixated on the now? Guest post by Andrew Holding.
Science communication should be more than the dissemination of results to the public; it should also flow in the other direction, with members of the public able to communicate their priorities to scientists and those who fund them. But how?
Peer review is one of the oldest and most respected instruments of quality control in science and research. Peer review means that a paper is evaluated by a number of experts on the topic of the article (the peers). The criteria may vary, but most of the time they include methodological and technical soundness, scientific relevance, and presentation.
