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Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
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... -
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].... -
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... -
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... -
Using Selfies to Challenge Public Stereotypes of Scientists
In an online Qualtrics panel survey experiment (N = 1620), we found that scientists posting self-portraits ("selfies") to Instagram from the science lab/field were perceived as... -
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... -
An emerging form of public engagement with science: Ask Me Anything (AMA) ses...
Originally, online public engagement with science tended to be one directional-from experts to the general population via news media. Such an arrangement allowed for little to... -
Social media as a data resource for #monkseal conservation.
The prevalence of social media platforms that share photos and videos could prove useful for wildlife research and conservation programs. When social media users post pictures... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
Survey on opinions and usage patterns for the ResearchGate platform
: Based on a survey, the following study investigates opinions and also usage patterns relating to the ResearchGate social networking site for scientists and researchers. The... -
Elites in social networks: An axiomatic approach to power balance and Price's...
A common two-tier structure for social networks is based on partitioning society into two parts, referred to as the elite and the periphery, where the “elite” is the relatively... -
Trust and cooperative behavior: Evidence from the realm of data-sharing
Trust is praised by many social scientists as the foundation of functioning social systems owing to its assumed connection to cooperative behavior. The existence of such a link... -
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... -
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,...
