US$409,000,000 Chinese R&D investment in 2015, ahead of the EU. The amount has more than quadrupled since 2005.

20.8% The pay gap between women and men working at the Wellcome Trust. The figure is 40.4 percent for Elsevier UK.

“I’m sorry, but our computer code was not written with [a view to] distributing for other people to use”.

Just one of many refusals received by the authors of a study that aimed to test the reproducibility of computer science research.

Switzerland as a scientific and rich nation

The productivity and impact of Swiss research remains at a very high level, according to the latest SEFRI analysis. Switzerland produces the most publications per capita, and is in third position for their impact (measured by the number of citations an article generates, standardised by scientific field).

Switzerland’s economic power plays an important role, according to our graph.

Public pressure improves the transparency of clinical trials

The proportion of clinical trials whose results have not – in accordance with US law – been published on the public database ClinicalTrials.gov has dropped from 42 percent to 28 percent in two years, according to an analysis of 18,700 trials conducted by STAT magazine. The most notable improvements came from institutions that had been criticised for their lack of diligence.

Depressed young researchers

Doctoral students and Master students are six times more likely to be depressed and anxious than the rest of the population, according to the results of a survey that received 2,279 responses across 26 countries.

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