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Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors nationwide.
The Truth about Cash-for-Publication Policy
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.
'Replication Grants' Will Allow Researchers to Repeat Nine Influential Studies That Still Raise Questions
'Replication Grants' Will Allow Researchers to Repeat Nine Influential Studies That Still Raise Questions
A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.
WikiTribune Got Google Funding
WikiTribune has been awarded €385,000 by the Digital News Initiative fund.
Repeating Important Research Thanks to Replication Studies
For the first time, NWO is funding nine projects from the health and social sciences that replicate research from others.
A Bibliometric Model for Identifying Emerging Research Topics
A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence.
Many Postdocs Face Challenges Securing Parental Leave, New Report Highlights
Navigating leave policies can be tricky, so postdocs need to be proactive and investigate all their resources.
DARPA to Spend $65 million on Human Brain Modem
High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
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%.
Challenge the Impact Factor
When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
Beyond Scoops to Best Practices
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.
MIT Convenes Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to Institute's Research
Group will explore opportunities to disseminate MIT knowledge as widely as possible.
Introducing a New Series on Reproducibility of Scientific Research
Introducing a New Series on Reproducibility of Scientific Research
How are scholars and researchers working to restore confidence in peer-reviewed science?
Sparrho Raises $3 Million to Democratize Access to Science Research
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
Open Science and its Discontents
The current funding climate certainly doesn’t favour changes, but that doesn’t mean that change isn’t possible.
Fake News: Sherlock Among the Tulips
The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.
New ORFG Resource Provides Guidance to Funders Developing Open Policies
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Scientists Should Talk Directly to the Public
Our work helps answer some of society's greatest challenges, but it's usually conveyed with technical language in journals most citizens never see.
Science Has a Negativity Problem
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.
Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
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