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International Scientific Collaboration in HIV and HPV: A Network Analysis
Research endeavours require the collaborative effort of an increasing number of individuals. International scientific collaborations are particularly important for HIV and HPV... -
Perceived publication pressure in Amsterdam: Survey of all disciplinary field...
Publications determine to a large extent the possibility to stay in academia (“publish or perish”). While some pressure to publish may incentivise high quality research, too... -
The author who wasn’t there? Fairness and attribution in publications followi...
We conducted a document analysis that explored publication ethics and authorship in the context of population biobanks from both a theoretical (e.g. normative documents) and... -
Theoretical research without projects
We propose a funding scheme for theoretical research that does not rely on project proposals, but on recent past scientific productivity. Given a quantitative figure of merit on... -
Estimates of the Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce
BACKGROUND: The ability of a scientist to maintain a continuous stream of publication may be important, because research requires continuity of effort. However, there is no data... -
Effects of seniority, gender and geography on the bibliometric output and col...
Assessing the success and performance of researchers is a difficult task, as their grant output is influenced by a series of factors, including seniority, gender and... -
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published res...
Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article... -
Correlates of Research Effort in Carnivores: Body Size, Range Size and Diet M...
Given the budgetary restrictions on scientific research and the increasing need to better inform conservation actions, it is important to identify the patterns and causes of... -
To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work.
As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research.... -
The catalytic role of a research university and international partnerships in...
Objective In Peru, the past three decades have witnessed impressive growth in biomedical research catalyzed from a single research university and its investigators who secured... -
Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship ...
AbstractUsing an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions across the US and Canada, we explore priorities for publishing decisions and their perceived... -
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AbstractProposals to increase research reproducibility frequently call for focusing on effect sizes instead of p values, as well as for increasing the statistical power of... -
Scientific output scales with resources. A comparison of US and European univ...
By using a comprehensive dataset of US and European universities, we demonstrate super-linear scaling between university revenues and their volume of publications and... -
Survey on opinions and usage patterns for the ResearchGate platform
: Based on a survey, the following study investigates opinions and also usage patterns relating to the ResearchGate social networking site for scientists and researchers. The... -
The number of scholarly documents on the public web.
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar... -
Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impac...
National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings... -
Does bibliometric research confer legitimacy to research assessment practice?...
The use of bibliometric measures in the evaluation of research has increased considerably based on expertise from the growing research field of evaluative citation analysis... -
Characterizing the field of Atomic Layer Deposition: Authors, topics, and col...
This paper describes how Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has evolved over time using a combination of bibliometric, social network, and text analysis. We examined the rate of... -
Assessment of publication bias and outcome reporting bias in systematic revie...
Strategies to identify and mitigate publication bias and outcome reporting bias are frequently adopted in systematic reviews of clinical interventions but it is not clear how... -
Reliable novelty: New should not trump true
Science advances through rich, scholarly discussion. More than ever before, digital tools allow us to take that dialogue online. To chart a new future for open publishing, we...
