Next week, the plan initiated by the Commission to make assessments of research more meaningfully reflect its impact and value will open up to signatories. Then the hard work of translating it to action on the ground will begin (22 Sep 2022) The European push to reform how the value of research is assessed…
(23 Sep 2022) A software tool that analyses the titles and abstracts of scientific papers and detects text similar to that found in bogus articles is gaining interest from publishers. The tool, called the Papermill Alarm, was developed by Adam Day, who is director of scholarly data-services company Clear Skies in London, UK. Day says…
(20 Sep 2022) Open peer review, also known as transparent peer review, refers to the practice of publishing review reports and sometimes also the identities of reviewers. In recent years, there has been a large growth in the adoption of open peer review. The transparency offered by open peer review ensures that the quality of peer review, and…
(15 Sep 2022) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will invest $130 million over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and…
(15 Sep 2022) Predatory academic conferences are more common than you may think. Even as of 2017, there were reportedly more such conferences available to scientific researchers than there were genuine events held by scholarly groups that follow standard peer review processes. In a recent study conducted over a 2-year period by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), of more than…
(15 Sep 2022) Research England has commissioned a study of whether artificial intelligence could be used to predict the quality of research outputs based on analysis of journal abstracts, in a move that could potentially remove the need for peer review from the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The study, part of a broader review of the…
(15 Aug 2022) ChemRxiv was launched on August 15, 2017 to provide researchers in chemistry and related fields a home for the immediate sharing of their latest research. In the past five years, ChemRxiv has grown into the premier preprint server for the chemical sciences, with a global audience and a wide array of scholarly…
(30 Aug 2022) 2022 school year is shaping up to be a very interesting one when it comes to plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity. For many, it will be the first “normal” year since the start of the pandemic in 2020. However, that pandemic brought with it a spike in academic integrity issues.…
(Aug 2022) Hong Kong’s Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2020 is the sixth assessment conducted by the University Grants Committee (UGC) to assess and benchmark the quality of research across Hong Kong’s universities. This cycle is the first to require an impact component within submissions, following the model of the UK’s Research Excellent Framework (REF). …
(29 Jul 2022) The U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored a meeting in April 2021 to consider how to increase the scientific culture of data sharing. The editors of this special section of Harvard Data Science Review on the meeting asked three prominent scientists to provide perspectives from Europe on data sharing and management and about…