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For centuries people have been asking, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” Science has not been able to give us an answer so far. We still have to live with the basic statement that “Everything that is is, and it is as long as it keeps its identity, that is, its onticity”, which we may call the “Strong Ontic Principle”.
Late nights, typos, self-doubt and despair. Francis Collins, Sara Seager and Uta Frith dust off their theses, and reflect on what the PhD was like for them.
Thirty years on from the first congress on peer review, Drummond Rennie reflects on the improvements brought about by research into the process — and calls for more.
A possible replacement for the Journal Impact Factor.
Wellcome Trust looks to save money and time communicating the research it funds.
Launch expected later this year.
Analysis finds citation rankings can be very misleading.
Rather than focusing on what members of underrepresented groups need to do to “adapt” to academic culture, we should be interrogating the system itself, which expects all of us to work excessively at the expense of our physical and mental health.
Swiss-EU talks reveal determination of EU to make no concessions to UK over Brexit terms.
Scientific advances have always drawn on the work of non-professionals. Even more so now, thanks to technology.
Citation indicators addressing total impact, co-authorship, and author positions offer complementary insights about impact. This article shows that a composite score including six citation indicators identifies extremely influential scientists better than single indicators.
Research papers in the life sciences have become increasingly dense, potentially making them harder for reviewers to understand.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is alarming. Like many researchers in computing and social science, writing scripts, bots, or scrapers that collect online data is a normal part of my work.
In our global survey on innovations in scholarly communication, we asked researchers what tools they use for a large number of activities across the research cycle.
Google Scholar is great, but its inclusiveness and mix of automatically updated and hand-curated profiles means you should never take any of its numbers at face value.
APCs are priced to reflect what the market will bear, which may or may not having anything to do with actual cost, since the “journal’s editorial and technical processes” are only one factor in the overall pricing.
The paper, ‘Global trends and their impact on Latin America: the role of the state and the private sector in the provision of higher education’, traces the impact of global trends in higher education on the region.
The one broadly marketable skill a humanist might acquire in graduate school is the ability to teach.
Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small.
Problems of modern society demand collaborative research.
Greenpeace accepts climate science. So why do they dismiss the science around GMOs?
An analysis of Australian Research Council data reveals grant proposals that integrate a broad array of academic fields are less likely to be funded.
