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Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the C...
The open access availability of publications by Catalonia's CERCA research centres was analysed to determine the extent to which authors use open access journals, repositories,... -
Global health research and education at medical faculties in Germany
Background Universities undertake the majority of publicly funded research in Germany and hence bear a responsibility to contribute to global health efforts. So far,... -
Engaging policy in science writing: Patterns and strategies
: Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding... -
Scientific sinkhole: The pernicious price of formatting
Objective To conduct a time-cost analysis of formatting in scientific publishing. Design International, cross-sectional study (one-time survey). Setting Internet-based... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...
This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH... -
A correlation comparison between Altmetric Attention Scores and citations for...
This study considered all articles published in six Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals in 2012 and Web of Science citations for these articles as of May 2015. A total of... -
Push button replication: Is impact evaluation evidence for international deve...
Objective: In past years, research audit exercises conducted across several fields of study have found a high prevalence of published empirical research that cannot be... -
Video abstracts and plain language summaries are more effective than graphica...
Background Journals are trying to make their papers more accessible by creating a variety of research summaries including graphical abstracts, video abstracts, and plain... -
The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong...
The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There... -
Data sharing in PLOS ONE: An analysis of Data Availability Statements
A number of publishers and funders, including PLOS, have recently adopted policies requiring researchers to share the data underlying their results and publications. Such... -
Medicine and the media: Medical experts' problems and solutions while working...
Medical experts are one of the main sources used by journalists in reporting on medical science. This study aims to 1) identify problems that medical experts encounter in... -
Journals’ instructions to authors: A cross-sectional study across scientific ...
In light of increasing calls for transparent reporting of research and prevention of detrimental research practices, we conducted a cross-sectional machine-assisted analysis of... -
Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and ...
: Wikipedia is a gateway to knowledge. However, the extent to which this gateway ends at Wikipedia or continues via supporting citations is unknown. Wikipedia's gateway... -
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... -
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... -
Identifying publications in questionable journals in the context of performan...
Abstract: In this article we discuss the five yearly screenings for publications in questionable journals which have been carried out in the context of the performance-based... -
A discourse analysis of the macro-structure, metadiscoursal and microdiscours...
The abstract of a scientific research article convinces readers that the article deserves to be read. Abstracts can also determine the success of publications and grant... -
A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal poli...
This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact... -
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been...
