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Dual Small-Molecule Targeting of SMAD Signaling Stimulates Human Induced Plur...
Incurable neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are very common and can be life-threatening because of... -
Gender differences in grant and personnel award funding rates at the Canadian...
Background Although women at all career stages are more likely to leave academia than men, early-career women are a particularly high-risk group. Research supports that women... -
Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gende...
It is often argued that female researchers publish on average less than male researchers do, but male and female authored papers have an equal impact. In this paper we try to... -
DFG-funded projects 1920-1945 - PID as a very helpful tool for enriching a re...
Workshop Report at Pidapalooza 2020, Lisbon, on an Information System that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will publish on the Occasion of... -
Trends in Health Policy and Systems Research over the Past Decade: Still Too ...
BACKGROUND: The past decade has seen several high-level events and documents committing to strengthening the field of health policy and systems research (HPSR) as a critical... -
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,... -
Dissemination and stakeholder engagement practices among dissemination & ...
AbstractIntroductionThere has been an increasing focus on disseminating research findings, but less about practices specific to disseminating and engaging non-researchers. The... -
Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need
Charitable giving in 2013 exceeded $300 billion, but why do we respond to some life-saving causes while ignoring others? In our first two studies, we demonstrated that valuation... -
‘We’re passengers sailing in the same ship, but we have our own berths to sle...
Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a requirement for UK health and social care research funding. Evidence for how best to implement PPI in research programmes,... -
Agreements between Industry and Academia on Publication Rights: A Retrospecti...
Background Little is known about publication agreements between industry and academic investigators in trial protocols and the consistency of these agreements with corresponding... -
Why Is Plasmodium vivax a Neglected Tropical Disease?
Summary Plasmodium vivax malaria is a debilitating, sometimes life-threatening, and economically repressive disease of many tropical and temperate countries outside Africa, and... -
A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda
The need for policy makers to understand science and for scientists to understand policy processes is widely recognised. However, the science-policy relationship is sometimes... -
PrEP implementation by local health departments in US cities and counties: Fi...
Objective The United States Public Health Service released clinical practice guidelines for daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in May 2014. Local health departments... -
Impact of Health Research Capacity Strengthening in Low- and Middle-Income Co...
Background Measuring the impact of capacity strengthening support is a priority for the international development community. Several frameworks exist for monitoring and... -
How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research fun...
Scientists are increasingly dissatisfied with funding systems that rely on peer assessment and, accordingly, have suggested several proposals for reform. One of these proposals... -
Effects of research complexity and competition on the incidence and growth of...
Background Investigations into the factors behind coauthorship growth in biomedical research have mostly focused on specific disciplines or journals, and have rarely... -
The quality of reporting in randomized controlled trials of acupuncture for k...
Objective To assess the reporting quality of acupuncture trials for knee osteoarthritis (KOA), and explore the factors associated with the reporting. Method Three... -
Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: Are We Really Moving from Opini...
Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. An analysis of shared last names among academics was recently proposed to measure the diffusion of nepotism, the results of... -
Water, Water, Everywhere: Defining and Assessing Data Sharing in Academia.
Sharing of research data has begun to gain traction in many areas of the sciences in the past few years because of changing expectations from the scientific community, funding... -
Perceived conflict of interest in health science partnerships
University scientists conducting research on topics of potential health concern often want to partner with a range of actors, including government entities, non-governmental...
