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The Nordic Maintenance Care Program:Does psychological profile modify the tre...
BACKGROUND: Chiropractic maintenance care is effective as secondary/tertiary prevention of non-specific low back pain (LBP), but the potential effect moderation by psychological... -
Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action
The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study... -
A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing
Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. In this study, we tested the ability to... -
How Multidisciplinary Are the Multidisciplinary Journals Science and Nature?
Interest in cross-disciplinary research knowledge interchange runs high. Review processes at funding agencies, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, consider plans to... -
The PLOS ONE collection on machine learning in health and biomedicine: Toward...
Recent years have seen a surge of studies in machine learning in health and biomedicine, driven by digitalization of healthcare environments and increasingly accessible computer... -
Initial Coin Offerings
This paper examines the market for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs are smart contracts based on blockchain technology that are designed for entrepreneurs to raise external... -
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary... -
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Data management plans (DMPs) are documents accompanying research proposals and project outputs. DMPs are created as free-form text and describe the data and tools employed in... -
The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government
The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents... -
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... -
‘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,... -
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... -
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... -
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A new metric that uses citation rates to measu...
Despite their recognized limitations, bibliometric assessments of scientific productivity have been widely adopted. We describe here an improved method to quantify the influence... -
Scientific evidence underlying the American College of Gastroenterology’s cli...
BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines contain recommendations for physicians to determine the most appropriate care for patients. These guidelines systematically combine... -
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... -
Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sc...
For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding... -
Mixed methods grant applications in the health sciences: An analysis of revie...
Our aim was to understand how reviewers appraise mixed methods research by analyzing reviewer comments for grant applications submitted primarily to the National Institutes of...
