Science Alert November 8, 2023 Nature RETRACTED ARTICLE: Evidence of near-ambient superconductivity in a N-doped lutetium hydride at the request of the authors Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Elliot Snider, Raymond McBride, Hiranya Pasan, Dylan Durkee, Sachith E. Dissanayake, Keith V. Lawler and Ashkan Salamat. They have expressed the view as researchers who contributed to the work that the published paper does not accurately reflect the provenance of the investigated materials, the experimental measurements undertaken, and the data-processing protocols applied. The above-named authors have concluded that these issues undermine the integrity of the published paper. In addition, and separately, concerns have been independently […]
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Negative feedback is part of academia (and life). These six strategies can help you cope
Phys.org September 14, 2022 According to researchers in Australia feedback is a key component for any academic career and it is part of how the profession maintains rigor and quality in what it does. While it can be positive, research shows, it tends to be negative. On top of calls to improve training for academics, managers, and leaders on how to provide helpful feedback, being able to use the feedback we get is also important. Researchers suggest six things to do when you get negative feedback – 1. Empathize with the person giving feedback – when anonymous reviews are negative, […]
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 […]
NIH issues a seismic mandate: share data publicly
Nature February 16, 2022 In January 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin requiring most of the 300,000 researchers and 2,500 institutions it funds annually to include a data-management plan in their grant applications — and to eventually make their data publicly available. Under the new policy, which will go into effect on 25 January, all NIH grant applications for projects that collect scientific data must include a ‘data management and sharing’ (DMS) plan that contains details about the software or tools needed to analyse the data, when and where the raw data will be published and […]