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Measuring the Impact of Research: Lessons from the UK's Research Excellence F...
Impactful academic research plays a stellar role in society, pressing to ask the question of how one measures the impact created by different areas of academic research.... -
Biocuration: Distilling data into knowledge
Data, including information generated from them by processing and analysis, are an asset with measurable value. The assets that biological research funding produces are the data... -
Do black lives matter in public health research and training?
Objective To examine whether investments made in public health research align with the health burdens experienced by white and black Americans. Methods In this... -
To what extent do potential conservation donors value community-aspects of co...
There is a major gap in funding required for conservation, especially in low income countries. Given the significant contribution of taxpayers in industrialized countries to... -
Why Having a (Nonfinancial) Interest Is Not a Conflict of Interest
A current debate about conflicts of interest related to biomedical research is to question whether the focus on financial conflicts of interest overshadows "nonfinancial"... -
Experiments in interdisciplinarity: Responsible research and innovation and t...
In Europe, responsible research and innovation (RRI) has emerged as a science policy measure that demands the early integration of a broad range of social actors and... -
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,... -
Diversity of global rice markets and the science required for consumer-target...
With the ever-increasing global demand for high quality rice in both local production regions and with Western consumers, we have a strong desire to understand better the... -
Managing product variety on online platform: Consumer heterogeneity and disec...
Recent innovations in e-commerce have led to the emergence of online retailing platforms, where millions of products are sold. Most of these products are sold by third-party... -
Heterogeneity of Inter-Rater Reliabilities of Grant Peer Reviews and Its Dete...
Background One of the most important weaknesses of the peer review process is that different reviewers’ ratings of the same grant proposal typically differ. Studies on the... -
Measuring sustainability of seed-funded earth science informatics projects
: Short term funding is a common funding model for informatics projects. Funders are interested in maximizing the sustainability and accessibility of the outputs, but there are... -
Financial Costs of Large Carnivore Translocations – Accounting for Conservation
Human-carnivore conflict continues to present a major conservation challenge around the world. Translocation of large carnivores is widely implemented but remains strongly... -
Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding
Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would... -
Polymorphs and Prodrugs and Salts (Oh My!): An Empirical Analysis of "Seconda...
Background While there has been much discussion by policymakers and stakeholders about the effects of “secondary patents” on the pharmaceutical industry, there is no empirical... -
How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and De...
International audience; Conservation and development are intricately linked. The international donor community has long provided aid to tropical countries in an effort to... -
Attitudes towards animal study registries and their characteristics: An onlin...
Objectives Prospective registration of animal studies has been suggested as a new measure to increase value and reduce waste in biomedical research. We sought to further...
