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Opinion: Things are not right in the culture of research, and that this is ultimately to the detriment of research. Two issues emerge: the huge complexity of the research ecosystem, and the related problem of collective action that this complexity creates.
The WHO's annnouncement came as China confirmed cases in Beijing and in Guangdong province, as well as a confirmed incident involving human-to-human spread.
Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.
China's best universities change its charter to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party.
Eight years ago, President Vladimir Putin decreed that Russia must become a leading scientific power. That meant at least five top-100 Russian universities by 2020, and a dramatic increase in the number of global citations of Russian scientific papers. Now a group at the center of Putin’s aspirations, the Russian Academy of Sciences, has dropped a bombshell into the plans. A commission set up by the academy has led to the retraction of at least 869 Russian scientific articles, mainly for plagiarism.
This Medical News story examines the outcry over a recently published guideline that found insufficient evidence to recommend eating less red meat.
Oxford initiative aims to link people and disciplines, say Laura Fortunato and Dorothy Bishop.
The open-access era seems to be arriving for academic research, but it looks as if big publishers will still profit.
Warnings that Sci-Hub poses a cybersecurity threat to universities have intensified. But few institutions appear to be acting on them.
An interview with Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, about the increasingly central role data science is playing in research and teaching - and how journals, publishers, societies, and librarians fit in this emerging ecosystem.
Scientists reveal how they are dealing with a profound sense of loss as the climate emergency worsens.
In a recent letter to the White House, a group of corporate publishers and scholarly organizations implore the president to leave intact…
Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit 'passively waiting' for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Twin disasters marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and scientists are presenting new evidence of which drove one of Earth's great extinctions.
A survey has warned that researchers are too stressed. It's up to universities to improve their working environment
The United States is no longer the 'uncontested leader' in science globally, the National Science Foundation says.
Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade.
PLOS ONE will soon offer Registered Reports, a preregistration option which enables open peer review and publication of the initial study protocol in advance of the full research article.
We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.
Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.
The Scientists for EU group is gearing up for 2020 after the desperate disappointment of losing its three-and-a-half year campaign against Brexit - a result that has major implications for research.
An independent report published by Information Power aims to improve the transparency of Open Access (OA) prices and services.
Stay organized to help spot ways in which brain circuits rewire themselves!
Perspectives on and experiences of research culture, based on a survey of more than 4,000 researchers in the UK and globally.
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based changes are necessary to ensure that the data yields an accurate picture. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations.
