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Work-Life Balance Survey 2018: Long Hours Take Their Toll on Academics

Work-Life Balance Survey 2018: Long Hours Take Their Toll on Academics

Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads.

A Post-Publication Review and Assessment In Science Experiment

A Post-Publication Review and Assessment In Science Experiment

It is time to reinvent the ways we assess our research outputs and each other to make them more fair, efficient and effective, says Michael Eisen.

Preprint Abstracts On bioRxiv Increasing Faster Than Medline

Preprint Abstracts On bioRxiv Increasing Faster Than Medline

As preprints in medicine are debated, data on how preprints are used, cited, and published are needed. This study by John P.A. Ioannidis evaluates views and downloads and Altmetric scores and citations of preprints and their publications.

Three Decades of Peer Review Congresses

Three Decades of Peer Review Congresses

Conferences on Peer Review have been held every 4 years since 1989 to present research into the quality of publication processes. The 8th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication was held in Chicago in September 2017.

These Myths Are Holding Women Back in the Workplace

These Myths Are Holding Women Back in the Workplace

Women make up half the population and earn more advanced degrees than men in 100 countries. So why are they a distinct minority in the uppermost echelons?

Nominate for the Royal Society's Medals and Awards

Nominate for the Royal Society's Medals and Awards

The majority of nominations for the Royal Society's medals and awards can be made using the online nomination system. All guidance include how to complete the nomination form can be read on the guidance notes which include full information about all the awards.

Women in Science, Technology and Innovation: Old Stereotypes and New Realities

Women in Science, Technology and Innovation: Old Stereotypes and New Realities

The OECD's 2017 Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard brings fresh evidence on where women stand in the pursuit of better representation in the world of science and technology.

Nobel Laureates and the Economic Impact of Research: A Case Study

Nobel Laureates and the Economic Impact of Research: A Case Study

We ran data on the scientific publications of 37 laureates of the Nobel prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The results showed that those laureates have produced knowledge that has been taken up in innovation more widely than the work of the average US or world scientist.

No Masks or Capes, but These Heroes Are Saving the World

No Masks or Capes, but These Heroes Are Saving the World

They may be too humble to call themselves heroes, but there'€™s no better way to describe them according to Bill Gates.

What Do You Do When They Say "No?"

What Do You Do When They Say "No?"

After unanimous recommendations for Promotion with Tenure from both the department and college committees, the Dean overturned the committees' votes. He would not be recommending me for tenure.

 

Open Research Glossary by the Right to Research Coalition

Open Research Glossary by the Right to Research Coalition

A glossary of open research terms to inform people about the culture of ‘open scholarship’.

What Does It Mean to Read the Literature, Really?

What Does It Mean to Read the Literature, Really?

In a profession rewarding productivity in the form of papers and grants, sitting down to deeply read journal articles can feel like wasted time. Professor logs every paper she read over multiple years to gain insight on personal research practices.

Prestige and Inequality in the Ivory Tower

Prestige and Inequality in the Ivory Tower

Inequalities in academic citation distribution are analyzed using Thomas Piketty's approach to analyzing economic inequality, with some fascinating results.