Nature June 2, 2023 The Council of the European Union has recommended a ‘no pay’ academic-publishing model in which neither readers nor authors are billed for academic papers. The recommendations, part of a set of principles on scholarly publishing adopted by the council, are not legally binding and have been welcomed by some members of the academic community. Critics say that the plan could usher in a state-defined system that might stymie academic freedom and abolish an industry without considering who would pay for the alternative. Supporters, such as the German Research Federation, say the principles would lower the barriers […]
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Analysis suggests China has passed US on one research measure
Phys.org March 8, 2022 The top-1% most-highly-cited articles are watched closely as the vanguards of the sciences. However, this finding contrasts with repeated reports of Western agencies that the quality of China’s output in science is lagging other advanced nations, even as it has caught up in numbers of articles. An international team of researchers (USA -Ohio State University, China, the Netherlands) used field normalizations, a new measurement method, which classify source journals by discipline. Classifications can be used for the decomposition, but not for the normalization. When the data is thus decomposed, the USA ranks ahead of China in […]
In science, small groups create big ideas
Phys.org January 21, 2022 An international team of researchers (Taiwan, Japan) explains the researcher dynamics of generating and developing Emerging Research Topics (ETs) in life sciences and medicine over the past half-century by analyzing the pre-, contemporary-, and post-participation of researchers publishing articles containing the emerging keywords that are elements of ETs. Their results suggest that, while manpower needs for publication have increased, less manpower is required to generate ETs. These trends illustrate a mode shift in the scientific practice of researchers that have generated and developed ETs over the last 50 years as well as highlight the significance of […]