Researchers measure scientific output to determine if past success predicts future productivity.
Researchers measure scientific output to determine if past success predicts future productivity.
Thomson Reuters teams up with several North American universities to use a customized evaluation tool that analyses research impact on an institutional level.
The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.
As a new age in scholarly publishing dawns, improved standards for openness in communicating scientific information promise to eliminate biases and publication delays.
Open-access journals are reaching the same quality levels as their subscription counterparts.
Life scientists are increasingly posting manuscripts to the preprint server, joining the ranks of thousands of physicists.
August 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.
Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.
Science publishing is locked in an evolutionary arms race as it edges further into the digital age.