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A team from the UNIGE and the HUG has shown that during the COVID-19 pandemic, women researchers submitted significantly less research for publication than their male counterparts did.

SUMMER SERIES: HOW SCIENCE WORKS In the 1990s, the internet upended the scientific publication process. Today, it's the whole culture of research that's changing. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shock waves around the world in the spring of 2020. It also unveiled deep underlying societal and cultural trends.

Free access to knowledge makes further progress at USI thanks to a new agreement that now allows USI researchers to publish original research articles in Open Access (OA) free of charge in journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Cogent OA.

Two talented young researchers at Empa will be given the opportunity to develop their own research area over a five-year period with the help of an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Counc

ETH has once again been highly successful in the awarding of this year's ERC Starting Grants for young researchers, with the European Research Council (ERC) approving a total of CHF 21.4 million in funding for 12 ETH project submissions.

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Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative Open Access agreement with Springer Nature.

EPFL Professor Michael Grätzel is ranked #1 in a list of 100,000 top scientists across all fields. The ranking method is a based on new, more accurate standardized citation metrics developed by scientists led by Stanford University.

Knowledge brokering is a technical term used to describe activities to facilitate mutual learning between researchers, practitioners and policy makers.