This podcast features the editors-in-chief of two new environmental journals
Read article: New directions in environmental health and ecology, innovation in science and technology is waning
Researchers discover a decline in the ‘disruptiveness’ of papers and patents in recent years
Read article: Progress could be slowing down in science and technology, finds study
Greater numbers of PhD students and postdocs at top universities could be why researchers at those institutions publish more papers than their peers at less prestigious centres
Read article: Why it pays to join a big research group if you want to be more scientifically productive
Network analysis finds that women use citations in a different way to men
Read article: Machine learning can accurately predict a scientist’s gender based on citation data alone
The US government has called for all government-funded research to be made freely available to read immediately after publication.
Read article: US government calls time on open-access embargoes
IOP Publishing explains about publishing ethics, what free training and certification is available to you, and how IOP supports research integrity in the peer review process
Read article: Research integrity and Peer Review Excellence at IOP Publishing
Analysis of over 3000 scientists shows that scientists with high citation rates are also more likely to collaborate with successful peers
Read article: Want to be highly cited? Work with collaborators across multiple research fields, study finds
Study reveals huge "citation gap", which could worsen the geographical inequality of science
Read article: Citations in science are biased towards a handful of nations – and the gap is growing
The Electrochemical Society's annual Free the Science Week is part of a longer term ambition to make all of the research in its publications free to read
Read article: Society opens up electrochemical research
A new analysis by researchers in the US also found that China had already overtaken the European Union in terms of research quality by 2015
Read article: China overtakes the US in terms of research quality, finds study
