Topics related to blockchain and cryptocurrency dominate SSRN scholarly research repository - December 31, 2018
SSRN, a scholarly research repository owned by scientific, technical, and medical information publishing company Elsevier, concludes that FinTech is the fastest growing area of research on its platform. Data from a recently released study by the company reveals that the most popular papers on SSRN deal… Read More
Global production of scientific papers hit an all-time high in 2018 with emerging economies rising fastest - December 27, 2018
Emerging economies showed some of the largest increases in research output in 2018, according to estimates from the publishing-services company Clarivate Analytics. Egypt and Pakistan topped the list in percentage terms, with rises of 21 percent and 15.9 percent, respectively. China's publications rose by about… Read More
SPARC Europe releases updated analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies - December 24, 2018
SPARC Europe has released the updated analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe. It reports a continued increase in the growth of related policies and an increase in uptake in countries where no such policy previously existed. The report is the latest… Read More
New Editage report highlights geographic patterns in author attitudes toward OA publishing - December 20, 2018
Global scholarly communications company Editage has released a report highlighting geographic patterns in author attitudes toward open access publishing. In September this year, Editage had released a comprehensive report based on a global author survey capturing the views of almost 7000 researchers (mostly non-Western, non–English-speaking researchers)… Read More
Global humanitarian and practicing ER physician, Dr. Samuel J. Zidovetski, to keynote NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference - December 17, 2018
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that researcher, practicing ER physician, co-founder of Save A Brain Foundation, and global health humanitarian, Dr. Samuel J. Zidovetski, will deliver the keynote address at NFAIS' 61st Annual Conference, scheduled for February 13 - 15, 2019,… Read More
Nature Index 2018 reviews China’s scientific performance over the past five years - December 13, 2018
The Nature Index 2018 supplement on China reveals that China's contribution to the Nature Index rose by 75% between 2012 and 2017, much more than a selection of leading countries in the Index, such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan. China's share… Read More
