About the size of Google Scholar
The emergence of academic search engines has revived and increased the interest in the size of the academic web, since their aspiration is to index the entirety of current academic knowledge.
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Scientific writing: the online cooperative
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers.
The impact of researcher development
A collection of papers based on workshops at the Vitae Researcher Development International Conference, 3-4th September 2013, Manchester, UK
Sciencestarter
Sciencestarter is the first German crowdfunding platform for science projects.
250 great minds
The University of Leeds is seeking to recruit up to 250 exceptional early career academics to tenure track equivalent Academic Fellowships over the next three years.
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
October 24-26, London
How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working
How nations fare in PhDs by sex
How women and men fare in doctoral studies around the world.
Research picks up pace
The crowdsourcing model of raising public funds online for individual projects is becoming a real possibility for medical and scientific research.
To get more out of science, show the rejected research
The research conducted using federal funds is driven - and distorted - by the academic publishing model.
Big data and full-genome analysis not all they're cracked up to be
Interview with Walter Gilbert, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
There's not a creativity deficit in science
Reply to a recent opinion stating that creativity was being suppressed in science.
Science and the Wealth of Nations
Reflections on Science supervised by F. Heukelom, K. Landsman and M. Hagner of ETH Zurich.
Can tweets predict citations?
A study of 2011 suggests that highly tweeted articles were 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less-tweeted articles.
How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?
I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.
When research goes viral
The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social media.
Should I become a professor? Success rate 3 %
10% of all postdocs stay in academia but nearly 80% hope to pursue an academic career
Pride in science
The sciences can be a sanctuary for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals, but biases may still discourage many from coming out.
Science communication as political communication
Scientific debates often blur the lines between the science that is being debated and the political, moral, and legal implications that come with its societal applications. This manuscript traces the origins of this phenomenon to professional norms within the scientific discipline.
Majority of research funding goes to minority of institutions
71 per cent went to 31 universities because of 'narrowed' definitions of excellence
New data shows creative people move more
MacArthur Fellows data shows that creative scientists are highly mobile.
Ten simple rules for better figures
Ten simple rules for better figures
Scientific visualization is classically defined as the process of graphically displaying scientific data. However, this process is far from direct or automatic.
Swiss scientists regain access to some E.U. grants through 2016
A new agreement with the European Union means that Swiss researchers are eligible for some Horizon 2020 grants.
The Innovation Challenge report: a new approach to research funding
In a new report says that the government must increase taxpayer investment in research and development to match that of the UK’s competitors.
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