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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...
This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH... -
Assessing the flow to low-income urban areas of conservation and environmenta...
: Government funding accounts for a large proportion of conservation and environmental improvements, and is often the result of citizen votes on state ballot measures. A key... -
Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder prepri...
Preprint servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv represent a highly successful and relatively low cost mechanism for providing free access to research findings. By decoupling the... -
Perception of the importance of chemistry research papers and comparison to c...
Chemistry researchers are frequently evaluated on the perceived significance of their work with the citation count as the most commonly-used metric for gauging this property.... -
Economic sanctions and academia: Overlooked impact and long-term consequences
: Financial sanctions are often thought of as the "soft alternative" to armed conflict and are widely used in the 21st century. Nonetheless, sanctions are often criticized for... -
Most UK scientists who publish extremely highly-cited papers do not secure fu...
The UK is one of the largest funders of health research in the world, but little is known about how health funding is spent. Our study explores whether major UK public and... -
Capacity to conduct health research among NGOs in Malawi: Diverse strengths, ...
Background The role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in health research has attracted growing attention. NGOs are important service providers and advocates in...
