Nuclear Power Is on Its Way Out
It’s another blow to an industry that has been hammered in the U.S. and Europe, leaving a huge opportunity for China to emerge as a global leader in nuclear technology.
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Rethinking Career Paths Across Academia
Is there an alternative to the standard academic career path that would actually make research work better?
Gamification: The Future of Graduate Recruitment
Technology, innovation and digitalisation must be seen as sources of income and not as costs to a business.
Harnessing Serendipity
Innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works
Two Female Scientists and a Militant Environmentalist Join Emmanuel Macron
Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.
The Physicist Who Denies Dark Matter
Maybe Newtonian physics doesn’t need dark matter to work.
Introducing ORCID
ORCID wasn't intended as a massive longitudinal survey of human migration, but with 3 million profiles and growing, it is becoming just that.
Cooperation And Liaison Between Universities And Editors (CLUE)
Recommendations on best practice
Major Global Research Funders Take Strong Lead on Clinical Trial Transparency
Major Global Research Funders Take Strong Lead on Clinical Trial Transparency
Some of the world’s largest research funders and NGOs today agreed to adopt the WHO's strong standards on clinical trial transparency.
China's Belt and Road Infrastructure Plan Also Includes Science
Investment also planned in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and other fields.
Paper About Plagiarism Contains Plagiarism
An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.
Gender Equality Figures Promising but Not the Full Story
Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Does Sharing of an Unpublished Thesis Create Enough Harm to Imprison Someone?
Charlie Rapple highlights the case of Diego Gómez, a Columbian researcher facing prison for sharing someone else's thesis via Scribd.
Data Sharing Can Offer Help in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
In Referees We Trust?
The imprimatur bestowed by peer review has a history that is both shorter and more complex than many scientists realize.
Biology Needs More Staff Scientists
Independent professionals advance science in ways faculty-run labs cannot, and such positions keep talented people in research, argues Steven Hyman.
Why We Need Centralized Services
While preprints have been around since before arXiv.org launched in 1991, fields outside of physics are starting to push for more early sharing of research data, results and conclusions.
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
The Quantified Self and the Gamification of Academic Research Through Social Networks
ResearchGate and similar services represent a “gamification” of research, drawing on features usually associated with online games, like rewards, rankings and levels.
Citation Performance Indicators - A Very Short Introduction
A brief summary of the main citation indicators used today.
We Can Shift Academic Culture Through Publishing Choices
Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.
Defining Open Peer Review
Recently, our colleagues at OpenAIRE have published a systematic review of ‘Open Peer Review’ (OPR). As part of this, they defined seven consistent traits of OPR, which we thought sounded like a remarkably good opportunity to help clarify how peer review works at ScienceOpen. At ScienceOpen, we have over 31 million article records all available for …
Who to Follow on Twitter
A list of people to follow on the preprints subject.
India Nears Approval of First GM Food Crop
Government may delay decision pending court decisions.
Are We Still Crowdfunding Research?
Which platforms exist? Does it work? And what is funded?
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