Funding cuts put pressure on peer review

Article Abstract:

Increased competition and severe cuts in research funding have exposed some of the major limitations of the peer review system. However, a Group of 7-sponsored conference in Capri, Italy, concluded by asserting the importance and value of the system. Participants to the conference agreed that several reforms in the peer review system needs to be adopted to promote greater scientific efficiency. Particularly, they cited the need to intensify the use of bibliometric data such as publication rates and citation rates in peer reviews.

Evaluation, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Peer review of research grant proposals

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Eastern Europe

Article Abstract:

Eastern Europe as a whole enters 1993 in an economically depressed condition, and this will be reflected in the ability of countries to spend on scientific and technological research. The former East Germany is perhaps in best shape with its universities and research centers restructured along Western lines. Poland and Hungary were able to keep some distance between their universities and their Communist parties which has left them in salvageable shape. Worse off are the former Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.

Forecasts and trends, Eastern Europe, Science, Europe, Eastern

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Trepidation greets plan for cloning humans

Article Abstract:

Issues are presented concerning the criticism which has been made by biomedical sciences researchers following the announcement by Italian scientist Severino Antinori that he intends to clone a human embryo.

Research, Ethical aspects, Cloning, Medical sciences, Human embryo, Antinori, Severino

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