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A recent book took aim at accelerating administrative demands and the internalized expectation of measurable productivity that have eroded the quality of academic life and work. Is there a corollary for scholarly publishing?
A new project to convert PDF to XML with high accuracy by complementing existing tools with computer vision technology.
We propose to use an approach that yields a simple numerical measure of veracity, the R-factor, by summarizing the outcomes of already published studies that have attempted to test a claim.
Support for the Google ‘manifesto’ on gender difference recalls the rationale of eugenics.
The infographic shows how to achieve 100% Open Access for free and legally.
As a new French report highlights, early-career researchers face significant challenges landing permanent academic positions—but there may also be some rays of hope.
Oliver Rosten believes the postdoctoral system played a role in his friend’s suicide. Disseminating that opinion in a scientific journal took perseverance.
U.S. adults see scientists as intelligent, but not always warm. This is a problem because people's perceptions of scientists' warmth influence their trust in scientific information. Could scientists be improving trust via social media?
A collection of thirteen papers that were intended to be unpublishable. All were submitted to predatory journals to expose non-existent peer review and exploitative practices.
Large study of open research analysed reader data from Unpaywall tool, which finds freely available versions of articles.
Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.
Although there are differences among journals across the spectrum of JIFs, the citation distributions overlap extensively, demonstrating that the citation performance of individual papers cannot be inferred from the JIF.
Kamila Markram, head of open science platform Frontiers, argues research funders must do much more to speed openness in science.
A postdoc suing over exclusion from patents offers a lesson for anyone working on potentially lucrative research.
MilliporeSigma wins a key step in its claims to “knock-in” DNA with the powerful tool.
A Chinese biologist whose team on Wednesday retracted a high-profile paper on a gene-editing technology has vowed to press ahead with experiments that he hopes will vindicate the potential rival to the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
The European Commission should give Framework 9 applicants access to the full evaluation reports for their proposals, a Swiss position paper on the programme has said.
The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?
Analysis finds website can fulfill 99% of requests for scholarly papers
Funder reflections on the Open Science Prize.
Proposal to change widely accepted p-value threshold stirs reproducibility debate.
The country wants to use a focus on research to solve its problems and build diplomatic ties in the Middle East.
The case for, and against, redefining "statistical significance."
One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.
More than 400 authors on some 100 papers from a single journal face punishments
