Naar aanleiding van het KNAW-advies over replicatieonderzoek vond vorige week een bijeenkomstplaats waarin meerdere hoogleraren en voorzitters reageerden op het gegeven advies. Met...
To improve quality of biomedical animal research, cardiovascular researchers launched a register of protocols for preclinical animal studies. The register forms part of a response to the controversy and confusion surrounding cardiac regenerative therapy. Utrecht researchers believe there is insuffic...
Scientific significance is what matters and the international weekly journal of science Nature is proud of the wide variety of articles they have published. In “Citation is not the only impact” Nature explains its vision on the content the journal publishes. Rather than the amount of citations t...
This November the QUEST Center will be opened in Berlin. The acronym represents its main themes Quality, Ethics, Open Science and Translation. The QUEST Center is part of the Center for Transforming Biomedical Research of the Berlin Institute of Heal...
Open Science will make science more transparent, valuable and accessible for both researchers and the public according to The Working Group on Rewards under Open Science in their “Evaluation of Research Careers fully acknowledging Open Science Prac...
“Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics” by Anne Gentil-Beccot and Travis Brooks is an analysis about the unique way the field of High-Energy Physics has explored different scholarly communication strategies. Gentil-Beccot and Brook...
In an opinion piece Trisha Greenhalgh criticizes senior academics misusing their power to acquire authorship on research papers they never worked on. Greenhalgh suggests an academic oath might help to prevent these practices. The article “Do we nee...