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Facilitating data publishing through journal integration
Poster presented at the Research Data Alliance 5th Plenary Meeting, March 2015. To best encourage data publishing by scientific researchers, the burden of submission needs to be... -
The emergent integrated network structure of scientific research
Scientific research is often thought of as being conducted by individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely... -
Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the C...
The open access availability of publications by Catalonia's CERCA research centres was analysed to determine the extent to which authors use open access journals, repositories,... -
The perceived feasibility of methods to reduce publication bias
Publication bias is prevalent within the scientific literature. Whilst there are multiple ideas on how to reduce publication bias, only a minority of journals have made... -
Poor statistical reporting, inadequate data presentation and spin persist des...
The Journal of Physiology and British Journal of Pharmacology jointly published an editorial series in 2011 to improve standards in statistical reporting and data analysis. It... -
AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research.
AccessLabs are workshops with two simultaneous motivations, achieved through direct citizen-scientist pairings: (1) to decentralise research skills so that a broader range of... -
Improving the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethics of biomedical research ...
The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists,... -
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... -
Engaging policy in science writing: Patterns and strategies
: Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding... -
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... -
The effects of vocational interest on study results : student person : enviro...
The extent to which a good person-environment (PE) interest fit between student and study program leads to better study results in higher education is an ongoing debate wherein... -
Dissemination of novel biostatistics methods: Impact of programming code avai...
Background As statisticians develop new methodological approaches, there are many factors that influence whether others will utilize their work. This paper is a bibliometric... -
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... -
The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals
The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) imposed a public access policy on all publications for which the research was supported by their grants; the policy was... -
Fifteen years in, what next for PLOS Biology?
As we celebrate our anniversary, the PLOS Biology editors discuss recent initiatives taken by the journal (meta-research, complementary research policy, preprint posting, short... -
Preprints: An underutilized mechanism to accelerate outbreak science.
Background In December 2019, a pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China and has rapidly spread around the world since then. Aim This study... -
Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)
This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer review has been... -
A persistent lack of international representation on editorial boards in envi...
ABSTRACTThe scholars comprising journal editorial boards play a critical role in defining the trajectory of knowledge in their field. Nevertheless, studies of editorial board... -
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...
