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An inkblot for beliefs: The Truth Misattribution Procedure
: An increasing body of evidence shows the importance of accommodating relational information within implicit measures of psychological constructs. Whereas relational variants... -
Meta-research: Why research on research matters
Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress,... -
Predicting fatigue using countermovement jump force-time signatures: PCA can ...
Purpose This study investigated the relationship between the ground reaction force-time profile of a countermovement jump (CMJ) and fatigue, specifically focusing on predicting... -
Researchers’ attitudes to the 3Rs—An upturned hierarchy?
Animal use in biomedical research is generally justified by its potential benefits to the health of humans, or other animals, or the environment. However, ethical acceptability... -
Strategic science communication as planned behavior: Understanding scientists...
: Strategic science communicators need to select tactics that can help them achieve both their short-term communication objectives and long-term behavioral goals. However,... -
A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field
Citation metrics are widely used and misused. We have created a publicly available database of 100,000 top scientists that provides standardized information on citations,... -
Artificial intelligence in peer review: How can evolutionary computation supp...
With the volume of manuscripts submitted for publication growing every year, the deficiencies of peer review (e.g. long review times) are becoming more apparent. Editorial... -
Can scientists fill the science journalism void? Online public engagement wit...
AbstractIn many countries the public’s main source of information about science and technology is the mass media. Unfortunately, in recent years traditional journalism has... -
Increasing belief but issue fatigue: Changes in Australian Household Climate ...
Using national Australian samples collected in 2011 (n = 1927) and 2016 (n = 2503), we identified six Australian household segments which we labelled Alarmed, Concerned,... -
Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovatio...
Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume... -
Broiler welfare trade-off: A semi-quantitative welfare assessment for optimis...
In order to support decision making on how to most effectively improve broiler welfare an innovative expert survey was conducted based on principles derived from semantic... -
Development of a measure to evaluate competence perceptions of natural and so...
Interdisciplinary scientific research teams are essential for responding to society’s complex scientific and social issues. Perceptual barriers to collaboration can inhibit the... -
The inverse Wiener polarity index problem for chemical trees.
The Wiener polarity number (which, nowadays, known as the Wiener polarity index and usually denoted by Wp) was devised by the chemist Harold Wiener, for predicting the boiling... -
Scientific Twitter: The flow of paleontological communication across a topic ...
The field of paleontology, which is based principally on observations of the natural world, includes an active community that is engaged across multiple social media platforms,... -
Biodiversity assessments: Origin matters
Pauchard et al claim that non-native species should not be granted conservation value, as this could hinder effort to curtail novel introductions. In this response, Schlaepfer... -
Does increased interdisciplinary contact among hard and social scientists hel...
Scientists across disciplines must often work together to address pressing global issues facing our societies. For interdisciplinary projects to flourish, scientists must... -
Exploring the awe-some: Mobile eye-tracking insights into awe in a science mu...
Informal learning environments provide the opportunity to study guests’ experiences as they engage with exhibits specifically designed to invoke the emotional experience of awe.... -
Community perception of abortion, women who abort and abortifacients in Kisum...
Background Abortion draws varied emotions based on individual and societal beliefs. Often, women known to have sought or those seeking abortion services experience stigma and...