Fabrício Marques

Innovation

A place in the sun

A thriving generics industry and government funding have helped to boost research and development spending among Brazilian pharmaceutical companies, study shows

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Good practices

Punishment for paper mills

Chinese government proposes sanctions for companies selling scientific papers on demand, which are most often fraudulent

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Bibliometrics

The fear of indifference

Studies investigate why some scientific papers are never cited

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UFRJ – 100 YEARS

100 vigorous years

Brazilian universities created a unique model to catch up from a late start

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Good practices

The threat of predatory journals in the midst of a pandemic

Despite being rare, articles on COVID-19 published in fraudulent journals serve as a warning

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Bibliometrics

Wider reach

Report on scientific journal impact factors shows Brazilian periodicals are improving

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COVER

Varying investment in science

Countries increase spending on COVID-19, but levels of investment in research vary

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Good practices

Integrity in the midst of a public health emergency

Study examines recommendations for ensuring the quality of peer reviews during the pandemic

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Obituary

A scholar of economic policies

The career of Carlos Lessa, a professor at UFRJ and former president of BNDES, merged academic discipline with politics

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Scientometrics

Trends in scientific collaboration

A recent study brings together indicators that enable a view of various profiles of research cooperation in 41 countries

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Each nation’s effort

Brazil’s government unfreezes funding for COVID-19 research, but will spend far less than developed countries

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Calling all scientists

Researchers in São Paulo mobilize against the pandemic as FAPESP awards funding to 210 related projects

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Science takes on the virus

Federal call for proposals attracts 2,200 applications for research grants to study COVID-19

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Based on unreliable information

How a suspicious big-data company was able to provide data for COVID-19 articles published in two major scientific journals

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Inequality

The diversity-innovation paradox

Women and ethnic minorities excel at proposing new ideas, but earn little recognition, according to an analysis of 1.2 million PhD theses

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GENDER

A handbook for guerrilla warfare against inequality

A United States report describes successful initiatives to increase the contribution of women in scientific careers

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Good practices

Fast error correction

Scientific papers on the novel coronavirus retracted due to misunderstandings and methodological flaws, most committed in good faith

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Obituary

A thinker of development

Wilson Cano was one of the founders of the UNICAMP Institute of Economics and a scholar of industrialization in Brazil

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Interview

Carlos Guerra Schrago: The theory and practice of evolution

The discipline that seeks to reconstruct the histories of species is itself evolving, according to UFRJ biologist

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Statistics

Stunted by recession

IBGE’s latest PINTEC survey reveals slowing innovation momentum among Brazilian firms between 2015 and 2017

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Interview

Luiz Eugênio Mello: Even something good has room for improvement

The new scientific director of FAPESP on his plans and the challenges for research as a result of the pandemic

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The cost of ignoring sexual harassment

American university accused of protecting professor who harassed students agrees to pay US$9.4 million in damages

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Collections

Retrieving the history of science

Documents newly digitized by the SBPC Heritage Center provide a fresh glimpse into the Society’s past

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Diplomacy

A chance to be bold

Global initiative sets 10-year targets to stabilize biodiversity losses, and 30-year targets for reversing them

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Interview

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz: An igniter of change

FAPESP scientific director shares how he encouraged behaviors that helped improve research in São Paulo

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The spread of plagiarism

Russian Academy of Sciences uncovers widespread misconduct, leading to the retraction of 869 articles

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Science communication

Breaking out of the bubble

Academic journals in Brazil rarely use Facebook to share their content with the public, study shows

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The inequality behind the balance

While the number of women scientists has been rising in Brazil, many still face challenging roadblocks

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Good practices

Crackdown on fraudulent citations

Publishers and journals attempt to combat fraudulent conduct in the article review process

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Good practices

Employees or spies?

Report recommends ways of preventing foreign influence on research in the USA

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