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The government peer-review committees that oversee grants are conservative by design. Given that their job is to put taxpayers’ money to good use, they are often reluctant to take big risks. The opposite is often true for crowdfunded projects.
History shows us that social scientists are essential if we are to get the most out of our engineering and technological innovations.
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
On the importance of being able to establish and maintain successful collaborations.
Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.
The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.
Women shy away from fields in which talent, not hard work, is thought to be key, survey suggests.
The Wellcome Trust launches the new Collaborative Awards, enabling teams of researchers to apply together and bring new perspectives to the work they are doing.
In his hour-long State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama spent a few seconds announcing a "Precision Medicine Initiative," but did little to explain what he has in mind.
A perverse focus on research cash and high-impact publications threatens careers and the aims of science itself, says Dorothy Bishop
The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were more predatory.
Researchers on social media discuss the potential impact of making peer review more transparent.
For all but a small percentage of aspiring researchers, doing a postdoc at a university is a lousy idea because it will neither result in an academic job nor otherwise advance one’s career.
Forcing research to fit the mould of high-impact journals weakens it. Hiring decisions should be based on merit, not impact factor.
Ivan Oransky is a medical journalist, global editorial director of MedPage Today and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site that tracks and reports on retractions in research journals.
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results: specifically, we introduce a peer-review oath and accompanying manifesto.
We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
How the US position as a global leader in biomedical research is being undermined.
Some ideas on the re-ranking of universities.
Data-Level Metrics (DLMs): NSF-funded project which will pilot a suite of metrics to track and measure data use that can be shared with funders, tenure & promotion committees, and other stakeholders.
Michael Eisen co-founded the Public Library of Science, publisher of open access journals including PLOS ONE.
Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.
The European Commission has agreed to retain the role of EU Chief Scientific Adviser, despite the departure of Anne Glover.
Institutions 'unbending' on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume. Meanwhile, a deal that meets the universities’ requirements was made with Springer.
Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.
A few professional scientists have found a sneaky way to cheat their way up the career ladder. They evaluate their own research by pretending to be someone else.
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
