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It has taken a while, but the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) have come out with a valuable booklet on authorships of scientific manuscripts. This recommendations, published now also as a special article in the Swiss Medical Weekly, aspire to serve as a practical guide for principal investigators confronted with the task of assigning authorships to the individuals contributing to scientific manuscripts.
NIH's proposal-an "emeritus" award that senior scientists would use to pass their work on to younger colleagues and wind down their labs is being blasted in the blogosphere.
A new computer simulation explores just how sensitive the process might be to bias and randomness. Its answer: very.
Plans to double the government's investment in fighting antibiotic resistance by spreading roughly $1.2 billion in funding across several federal agencies.
Paper showing that how ability is viewed within a field plays a key role in how well women are represented.
The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.
Investigators with substantial, long-term, unrestricted research support may generally hold no more than one NIGMS research grant.
Two of India's science funding agencies are joining the push to make the results of the research they fund freely available to the public.
A study based on arXiv shows that copying text from other papers is more common in some nations than others.
Separating the true signal from the gigantic amount of noise is neither easy nor straightforward, but it is a challenge that must be tackled if information is ever to be translated into societal well-being.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to require that the researchers it funds publish only in immediate open-access journals.
Rush Holt, a physicist, educator, and eight-term Democratic member of Congress, has been named the new CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The quality and quantity of data on economic activity are expanding.
Ever look at a research paper and wonder how the half-dozen or more authors contributed to the work?
The fraction of cited papers that are at least 10 years older than the paper citing them has increased steadily, from about 28% in 1990 to 36% in 2013.
U.S. science lobbyists coined the phrase "innovation deficit" last year
The dominance of the elite journals is eroding.
Steep budget cuts could push Italian universities and research centers beyond the point of no return, an academic body warned yesterday.
Congressman wants to order the NIH to bring down the average age at which new investigators receive their first grant by 4 years within a decade.
A new agreement with the European Union means that Swiss researchers are eligible for some Horizon 2020 grants.
Researchers have put numbers on the “file drawer” phenomenon, in which scientists abandon results that they believe journals are unlikely to publish.
Many factors influence success in a science career. Hard work, ambition, flair, and luck played a role in the success of Tim Hunt, who won a share of the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Hunt's career demonstrates the importance of two additional success factors: playfulness and early independence.
Applicants are required to assess seven competing proposals in exchange for having their own application reviewed.
Fund people, not projects. The NIH is now encouraging its 27 institutes and centers to launch their own people awards.
David Willetts resigned from his post as UK universities and science minister yesterday as part of a government reshuffle. Today, Greg Clark, a conservative minister responsible for cities policy and constitutional reform, has taken over Willetts' portfolio.
The people have spoken. Antibiotic resistance has been voted by the British public as the subject of the UK government's £10 million ($17 million) Longitude Prize - an initiative aimed at tackling society's greatest issues.
According to the review, some 10% of France's public research funds are awarded to specific projects on a competitive basis—the lowest figure among OECD's 34 member countries—compared with about 22% in Switzerland, about 38% in Germany, and 70% in South Korea.
A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.
