Phys.org July 8, 2024 Research Consulting and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) was commissioned to determine to what extent the vision, mission and objectives set out in the towards responsible publishing (TRP) proposal serve the needs of the global research community. Through a consultative approach, researchers in the UK sought to assess whether there is appetite for the type of change proposed by cOAlition S (an international consortium of research funding and performing organization’s) in the TRP proposal. In addition, they aimed to understand how the ‘Towards Responsible Publishing’ proposal may be modified or refined to ensure […]
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Rate of scientific breakthroughs slowing over time: Study
Phys.org January 4, 2023 Recent decades have witnessed exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, thereby creating conditions that should be ripe for major advances. Yet studies suggest that progress is slowing in several major fields. A team of researchers in the US (University of Minnesota, University of Arizona) analysed the claims of new scientific and technological knowledge at scale across six decades, using data on 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents from six large-scale datasets, together with a new quantitative metric that characterizes how papers and patents change networks of citations in science and technology. They […]