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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... -
Identifying Anomalous Citations for Objective Evaluation of Scholarly Article...
Evaluating the impact of a scholarly article is of great significance and has attracted great attentions. Although citation-based evaluation approaches have been widely used,... -
Are Network Growth and the Contributions to Congresses Associated with Public...
BACKGROUND: The consistent focus of 'Advances in Neuroblastoma Research' congresses on the topic neuroblastoma sets it as a model for a circumscribed scientific community.... -
Could early tweet counts predict later citation counts? A gender study in Lif...
In this study, it was investigated whether early tweets counts could differentially benefit female and male (first, last) authors in terms of the later citation counts received.... -
Evolution or revolution? Changing the way science is published and communicated.
The Internet is rapidly changing the way the results of academic research are communicated within communities and with the wider public. In a push to accelerate change and make... -
Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.
International audience; Assessment of researchers is necessary for decisions of hiring, promotion, and tenure. A burgeoning number of scientific leaders believe the current... -
From North American hegemony to global competition for scientific leadership?...
Based on the entire population of Nobel laureates in science from 1901 to 2017, we show that North America’s rise as global power in science started in the 1920s. Following a... -
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.... -
Exploring the Relationship between the Engineering and Physical Sciences and ...
We investigate the extent to which advances in the health and life sciences (HLS) are dependent on research in the engineering and physical sciences (EPS), particularly physics,... -
International Scientific Collaboration in HIV and HPV: A Network Analysis
Research endeavours require the collaborative effort of an increasing number of individuals. International scientific collaborations are particularly important for HIV and HPV... -
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...
Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks... -
Perceived publication pressure in Amsterdam: Survey of all disciplinary field...
Publications determine to a large extent the possibility to stay in academia (“publish or perish”). While some pressure to publish may incentivise high quality research, too... -
Measuring the Value of Research Data: A Citation Analysis of Oceanographic Da...
Evaluation of scientific research is becoming increasingly reliant on publication-based bibliometric indicators, which may result in the devaluation of other scientific... -
The author who wasn’t there? Fairness and attribution in publications followi...
We conducted a document analysis that explored publication ethics and authorship in the context of population biobanks from both a theoretical (e.g. normative documents) and... -
Theoretical research without projects
We propose a funding scheme for theoretical research that does not rely on project proposals, but on recent past scientific productivity. Given a quantitative figure of merit on... -
Estimates of the Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce
BACKGROUND: The ability of a scientist to maintain a continuous stream of publication may be important, because research requires continuity of effort. However, there is no data... -
Effects of seniority, gender and geography on the bibliometric output and col...
Assessing the success and performance of researchers is a difficult task, as their grant output is influenced by a series of factors, including seniority, gender and... -
Mapping the Structure and Dynamics of Genomics-Related MeSH Terms Complex Net...
It has been proposed that the history and evolution of scientific ideas may reflect certain aspects of the underlying socio-cognitive frameworks in which science itself is... -
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published res...
Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article...
