31 December 2014
How to target a journal that’s right for your research
http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/practical-guide/target-journal-right-research-communicate-publish.html
14 December 2014
The future of UK research and development – a UCU policy statement
http://www.ucu.org.uk/media/pdf/4/b/ucu_seeingthebiggerpicture_dec14.pdf?CFID=14884131&CFTOKEN=69fe58e10e843983-443AFE80-C188-5344-A871C6257DFA6AF2
UCU is today calling for a fundamental review of UK research. In a report released a week before this year's REF results, UCU says it wants to see a complete overhaul of research and development that goes beyond the planned operational review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
UCU is today calling for a fundamental review of UK research. In a report released a week before this year's REF results, UCU says it wants to see a complete overhaul of research and development that goes beyond the planned operational review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
19 November 2014
NYT: Number of Academic Refugees Grows
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/world/middleeast/number-of-academic-refugees-grows.html?_r=1
Intellectual dissidents have long faced political persecution and violence. But in recent years, the dangers facing them and universities in troubled regions have reached a crisis point. According to the Institute of International Education, which has been helping imperiled scholars since 1919, academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II, when thousands of professors and scientists escaped Nazi-controlled Europe.
Intellectual dissidents have long faced political persecution and violence. But in recent years, the dangers facing them and universities in troubled regions have reached a crisis point. According to the Institute of International Education, which has been helping imperiled scholars since 1919, academics and students are being forced to flee their homes and homelands at a level not seen since World War II, when thousands of professors and scientists escaped Nazi-controlled Europe.
UWN: Minimising brain drain – The pros and cons
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141112172102896
National governments that sponsor international scholarship programmes assume that attending a higher education institution outside the home nation creates benefits that are different from those created by attending a domestic institution.
By enabling students to attend high quality educational offerings in other nations, a government-sponsored international scholarship programme may generate numerous benefits not only for individual participants but also for the home nation more generally.
The extent to which a nation realises the societal benefits of international study depends on whether scholarship recipients return to live and work in the home nation after they complete the educational programme.
Creating mechanisms to minimise brain drain may be especially important in countries with transitioning economies, as these nations may be likely to both benefit from the human capital created through foreign study, as well as be likely to have scholarship recipients who are inclined to remain in the host nation after completing their educational programme.
National governments that sponsor international scholarship programmes assume that attending a higher education institution outside the home nation creates benefits that are different from those created by attending a domestic institution.
By enabling students to attend high quality educational offerings in other nations, a government-sponsored international scholarship programme may generate numerous benefits not only for individual participants but also for the home nation more generally.
The extent to which a nation realises the societal benefits of international study depends on whether scholarship recipients return to live and work in the home nation after they complete the educational programme.
Creating mechanisms to minimise brain drain may be especially important in countries with transitioning economies, as these nations may be likely to both benefit from the human capital created through foreign study, as well as be likely to have scholarship recipients who are inclined to remain in the host nation after completing their educational programme.
10 November 2014
How small universities from low-impact countries can rise up rankings
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141105105941193
How to win citations and rise up the university rankings
Richard Holmes
7 November 2014, University World News, Issue No:342
Citing papers that you've never read -- or that were never written
http://blog.codalism.com/index.php/citing-papers-that-youve-never-read-or-that-were-never-written/
See how a non-existent article has more than 200 citations
See how a non-existent article has more than 200 citations
05 November 2014
NATURE: Top 100 papers
http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20141104
The most cited work in history is a 1951 paper describing an assay to determine the amount of protein in a solution. It has now gathered more than 305,000 citations — a recognition that always puzzled its lead author, the late US biochemist Oliver Lowry. “Although I really know it is not a great paper … I secretly get a kick out of the response,” he wrote in 1977.
The colossal size of the scholarly literature means that the top-100 papers are extreme outliers. Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science holds some 58 million items. Only 14,499 papers have more than 1,000 citations. Meanwhile, works that have been cited only once, if at all — a group that encompasses roughly half of the items.
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