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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,... -
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,... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Post-Embargo Open Access Citation Advantage: It Exists (Probably), It’s M...
Many studies show that open access (OA) articles—articles from scholarly journals made freely available to readers without requiring subscription fees—are downloaded, and... -
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... -
Push button replication: Is impact evaluation evidence for international deve...
Objective: In past years, research audit exercises conducted across several fields of study have found a high prevalence of published empirical research that cannot be... -
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... -
The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong...
The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There... -
Data sharing in PLOS ONE: An analysis of Data Availability Statements
A number of publishers and funders, including PLOS, have recently adopted policies requiring researchers to share the data underlying their results and publications. Such... -
A Proposal for the Future of Scientific Publishing in the Life Sciences
Although a case can be made for rewarding scientists for risky, novel science rather than for incremental, reliable science, novelty without reliability ceases to be science.... -
Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper
Science is increasingly done in large teams, making it more likely that papers will be written by several authors from different institutes, disciplines, and cultural... -
Authorship and citation manipulation in academic research
Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort. Some journal editors coerce authors...
