Venue prestige and citation counts are two widely used, albeit imperfect, signals of research quality. When the two signals conflict, evaluators must decide how much weight to assign each. Yet, it rem...

A golden ticket allows one reviewer to advance a proposal that the rest of a panel would reject. We assess its score-based rationale by comparing minority-support ranking with other rules for allocati...

Funding mechanisms impact the cost effectiveness of the science conducted, as extramural NIH grants to universities excel at producing papers and citations, while intramural NIH hiring more effectively...

Arabi and Hutchins develop a machine learning model to predict which scientific research topics are likely to result in new FDA-approved therapeutics. Their model predicts which disease will receive a...

hattip to one of our OG blog commenters pinus who is trolling me today with a new paper in eLife. Comparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health. …

Funding mechanisms impact the cost effectiveness of the science conducted, as extramural NIH grants to universities excel at producing papers and citations, while intramural NIH hiring more effectivel...

Preprints now disseminate a large share of biomedical research before peer review. Because they have not yet passed peer review, some scientists regard preprint claims as unverified or potentially unr...

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

What if we could predict transformative scientific breakthroughs before they happen?

In March 2026, MIT’s Graduate Student Council (GSC) passed a Resolution on Scientific Publishing and MIT Libraries, a wide-ranging document that calls upon the MIT community, as well as federal…

There was a distressed post that flew by on Blüski this week. How are we to survive this? How will academic scientists get through this chaos and assault on our profession? You either will, or you …

“Do it to Julia”

Junior researchers are more likely to embrace preprints; grant reviewers and hiring committees express doubts

The FY2025 funding picture was disrupted significantly by the mandate for Multi-Year Funding of about half of the budget for extramural awards. This produced a mid-year declaration by NCI that thei…

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evolving decision-making in an era of uncertainty

Description:  The dataset OpenSSCI comprises reference metadata and citation links derived from 63,070 full-text academic documents archived in the SSOAR (Social Science Open Access Repository). The d...

There is a robust statistical relation between ideology and research findings when researchers test a policy-relevant hypothesis.

Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...

The ability to predict scientific breakthroughs at scale would accelerate the pace of discovery and improve the efficiency of research investments. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, graph th...

It is widely recognized that funding for biomedical research supports the development of major medical advances. However, little systematic effort has been made to determine whether a link exists betw...

Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...

Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...