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Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China's science academy launches new reform drive The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the nation's largest research body, is to reshuffle its 100 plus research institutes and change the way it rewards scientists. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
OECD urges China to innovate Despite China's impressive investment in research and development, the country lags behind others when it comes to innovation. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
Chemistry World October 16, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Credit crunch may boost Chinese science China's research budget is unlikely to be hit by the global financial crisis, and may even receive a further boost, according to policy experts. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
US science lead slips The US appears to be losing its global lead in science and technology according to data released by the US National Science Foundation. |
Chemistry World March 24, 2011 |
Mild S&T budget growth in China China's science and technology (S&T) budget has increased by 12.5 per cent compared to last year, but its growth momentum has slowed |
Chemistry World January 2008 Gurney & Adams |
Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Mark Peplow |
Science Stars Rise in the East Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos, claiming that British science is in danger of being sidelined unless it tries harder to work with booming Asian nations such as China, India and South Korea. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2013 Philip Ball |
Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Chemistry World June 2006 |
Comment: RSC Prepared for the Future Simon Campbell reflects on the Royal Society of Chemistry's achievements during his presidency. |
Chemistry World December 2006 Mark Haw |
Comment: A Tale of Two Disciplines Teaching as well as research can help bridge the no-man's land between chemistry and chemical engineering. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Editorial: Balancing up the equation Academic chemistry is a less welcoming environment for women than it is for men. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2011 Hepeng Jia |
Chemical profits nibbled by oversupplies China's chemical industry experienced an 'unexpected' harvest in the first half of the year, although the good days might not last long due to the expected oversupplies which have long harassed the nation's chemical sector. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2007 Hepeng Jia |
China Sets Renewable Energy Targets in 100 Billion Dollar Plan China's powerful energy watchdog has said that the country will aim to get 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 in an effort to curb its carbon dioxide emissions. |
Science News December 3, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Rating Researchers Is there a single number that would quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of a researcher's scientific work? |
Chemistry World October 31, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
How do you solve a problem like misconduct? Against a backdrop of a rapid increase in misconduct cases, representatives of the world's scientific societies and academies have banded together to produce a plan to shore up research integrity. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2008 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Chemistry's 'Colossal' Fraud One of the biggest cases of scientific fraud in chemistry is continuing to send shockwaves across India, as concerns are raised over the senior academics who co-authored multiple academic papers with researcher Pattium Chiranjeevi. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Computers Learn Chemistry Chemists who trawl through the thousands of chemistry papers published every month must wish their computers could do the job for them. Well, maybe one day they will. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2010 Akshat Rathi |
India calls for ambitious increase in science funding The Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India has advised the government to increase its science funding from less than 1 per cent of GDP to up to 2.5 per cent by 2020. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2011 Eugene Gerden |
Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2011 Sean Milmo |
UK government sets aside 1000 places for top researchers The UK chemistry sector has given a mostly cool response to a government scheme to attract top chemists, chemical engineers and other scientists from outside the EU, while tightening restrictions on immigration. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Ned Stafford |
Eastern European research blighted by funding shortfall While the recently released 2012 draft EU budget is set to increase research spending by 13 per cent, scientists in eastern Europe are continuing to struggle. |
Chemistry World March 1, 2014 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
European collaborations EuCheMS, the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, provides a single voice for chemistry in Europe. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2008 Ned Stafford |
Young Chemists Win Share of ERC Windfall Jerusalem-based chemist Assaf Friedler wins one of the European Research Council's (ERC) prestigious grants for young researchers. |
Chemistry World May 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
China's one stop research shop John Oyler has founded a string of startups in the US, but in 2005 he chose China as his base to launch BioDuro, a life sciences Contract Research Organisation. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers |
Chemistry World October 14, 2010 Laura Howes |
France and Spain commit funds to research The 'knowledge economy' has been declared a priority for the governments of both France and Spain, as they announce extra funds for higher education and research in their 2011 budgets. |
Information Today October 22, 2009 |
New Network for Chinese Researchers With a goal of reducing the barriers separating Chinese researchers from their counterparts in the U.S. and Europe, Anianet announced the launch of the Anianet professional network |
Chemistry World Richard Van Noorden |
Interview: Douglas Kell As former director of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Douglas Kell is used to finding connections between huge reams of complex data by collaborating with scientists from chemistry through to computing. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
Chemistry World January 4, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
China Allows Academics to Own Patents China has revised its 'science and technology constitution' to allow scientists, institutes and universities to own patents arising from publicly-funded research in an effort to boost innovation. |
Chemistry World November 10, 2015 Hepeng Jia |
China's first science Nobel prize exposes anxiety on research Artemisinin saves tens of thousands of lives every year. The story of its discovery has been debated for decades in China. The awarding of the medicine Nobel prize has only served to reopen old wounds. |
Chemistry World July 21, 2008 |
Chemical Education in Need of Reform China's university chemistry departments are struggling to attract students despite the rapid expansion of the country's higher education system. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2013 Patrick Walter |
Call to arms on data integrity Data integrity in the chemical sciences is under the spotlight. In a broadside aimed at shoddy data practices, the editor of Organic Letters, Amos Smith, has called on chemists to put their house in order and root out poor practice. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Retracted papers get hooked up to linguistic lie-detector Scientists who manipulate or falsify data may be masking their results behind excess jargon in published papers, according to a team of researchers at Stanford University. |
Wired May 22, 2009 Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2013 Jon Evans |
Data challenges for UK chemists Academic chemists in the UK have a problem with data. That's the claim made by a report that says that both in terms of managing and sharing data produced by their own laboratories and accessing data produced by others, chemists are all at sea. |
Chemistry World August 2008 |
Putting women in their place It's in all our interests to promote the career progression of women in chemistry, says Annette Williams |
Chemistry World March 10, 2010 Hepeng Jia |
China slows R&D funding growth After robust growth in science and technology spending in 2009, China has revealed a milder increase in the proposed 2010 science budget. |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
We need more scientists in politics Scientist Michael Brooks stood for parliament at the last election against an MP who favours homeopathy and medical astrology. He lost. Should we worry? |
Chemistry World September 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Singh et al. |
PubIndia: A Framework for Analyzing Indian Research Publications in Computer Science This paper describes PubIndia, a framework for analyzing the growth and impact of research activities performed in India in the computer science domain, based on the evidence of scientific publications |
Chemistry World September 11, 2006 |
Conference Blog From the American Chemical Society's fall conference: Dance your way to an A... Play for today... Welcome to San Francisco... Bio-barcodes indicate cancer protein... etc. |
Reactive Reports November 2005 David Bradley |
Peter Murray-Rust An interview with the scientific software developer, originally a crystallographer with a DPhil from Oxford, on how he is now helping to establish novel software and Web technologies for chemists and other scientists underpinned by the concept of open source. |
Chemistry World September 10, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Light on the horizon for chemicals sector Production in the worldwide chemical industry, battered and bruised by the global economic meltdown, appears to have stabilized and could even show mild annual growth by the fourth quarter of this year. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Ned Stafford |
China: act on scientific fraud The Chinese government is being called on to do more to ensure the scientific integrity of its researchers after UK-based journal Acta Crystallographica Section E was forced to retract dozens of papers describing over 70 crystal structures found to have been fabricated by Chinese researchers. |