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Public communication of data-based research in cities
Trilles, S., Granell, C., Degbelo, A., & Bhattacharya, D. (2020). Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities. PLoS ONE, 15(1), [e0228008].... -
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Background: The city of Wrocław in Poland represents one of Central Europeans oldest capitals of science with numerous Nobel laureates. Due to a long history of political... -
Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...
ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is... -
MooSciTIC: Training of trainers in West African research and higher education
The MooSciTIC project is a capacity-building initiative targeting West African research scientists and higher education teachers. The project aimed to improve the self-reliance... -
Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...
Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific... -
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding compet...
Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not... -
Fifteen years in, what next for PLOS Biology?
As we celebrate our anniversary, the PLOS Biology editors discuss recent initiatives taken by the journal (meta-research, complementary research policy, preprint posting, short... -
Climate science curricula in Canadian secondary schools focus on human warmin...
Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change poses severe risks to human and natural systems, many young Canadian adults do not view it as a major issue. We... -
Trade-offs in motivating volunteer effort: Experimental evidence on voluntary...
Author(s): Lyons, Elizabeth; Zhang, Laurina | Abstract: Digitization has facilitated the proliferation of crowd science by lowering the cost of finding individuals with the... -
Crafting your scientist brand
That a scientist might shape and cultivate a personal brand is a relatively new concept but one that is finding increasing acceptance in this new age of rapid communications and... -
Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...
European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with... -
Fair ranking of researchers and research teams
The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in... -
What exactly is ‘N’ in cell culture and animal experiments?
This Formal Comment responds to Jordan et al., and stresses that if scientific findings are to be robust, training in experimental design and statistics is critical to ensure... -
Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)
This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer review has been... -
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... -
Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research info...
Researchers’ participation in online RIMSs This article examined how researchers participated in research information management systems (RIMSs), their motivations for... -
Are Network Growth and the Contributions to Congresses Associated with Public...
BACKGROUND: The consistent focus of 'Advances in Neuroblastoma Research' congresses on the topic neuroblastoma sets it as a model for a circumscribed scientific community.... -
Utility of citizen science data: A case study in land-based shark fishing
Involving citizen scientists in research has become increasingly popular in natural resource management and allows for an increased research effort at low cost, distribution of... -
Using citizen science to expand the global map of landslides: Introducing the...
Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at... -
A constructive approach to the epistemological problem of emergence in comple...
Emergent patterns in complex systems are related with many intriguing phenomena in modern science. One question that has sparked vigorous debates is if difficulties in the...
