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Randomized Controlled Trials of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Africa: ...
Introduction To effectively address HIV/AIDS in Africa, evidence on preventing new infections and providing effective treatment is needed. Ideally, decisions on which... -
A Novel and Cost-Effective Monitoring Approach for Outcomes in an Australian ...
We report on the design and implementation of ecological monitoring for an Australian biodiversity conservation incentive scheme – the Environmental Stewardship Program. The... -
Toward Reproducible Computational Research: An Empirical Analysis of Data and...
Journal policy on research data and code availability is an important part of the ongoing shift toward publishing reproducible computational science. This article extends the... -
Power-Laws and the Use of Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines
It is widely accepted that the (now reversed) Bush administration’s decision to restrict federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research to a few “eligible” hESC... -
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... -
Profit (p)-Index: The Degree to Which Authors Profit from Co-Authors
Current metrics for estimating a scientist’s academic performance treat the author’s publications as if these were solely attributable to the author. However, this approach... -
The impact of funding through the RF President's grants for young scientists ...
The impact of grants on research productivity has been investigated by a number of retrospective studies. The results of these studies vary considerably. The objective of my... -
Excess Baggage for Birds: Inappropriate Placement of Tags on Gannets Changes ...
Devices attached to flying birds can hugely enhance our understanding of their behavioural ecology for periods when they cannot be observed directly. For this, scientists... -
Bias in Amputation Research; Impact of Subjects Missed from a Prospective Study
For research findings to be generalized, a sample must be representative of the actual population of interest. Lower limb amputation is most frequently performed in older... -
Predicting Scholars' Scientific Impact
We tested the underlying assumption that citation counts are reliable predictors of future success, analyzing complete citation data on the careers of ~150,000 scientists. Our... -
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 Quality of Registration of Clinical Trials: Still a Problem
INTRODUCTION: The benefits of clinical trials registration include improved transparency on clinical trials for healthcare workers and patients, increased accountability of... -
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of... -
A New Family of Cumulative Indexes for Measuring Scientific Performance
In this paper we propose a new family of cumulative indexes for measuring scientific performance which can be applied to many metrics, including h index and its variants (here... -
Combining Telephone Surveys and Fishing Catches Self-Report: The French Sea B...
Open access : http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.008... International audience; Fisheries statistics are known to be underestimated, since they... -
A Measure of Total Research Impact Independent of Time and Discipline
Authorship and citation practices evolve with time and differ by academic discipline. As such, indicators of research productivity based on citation records are naturally... -
Universities scale like cities.
Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law... -
Why Selective Publication of Statistically Significant Results Can Be Effective
Concerns exist within the medical and psychological sciences that many published research findings are not replicable. Guidelines accordingly recommend that the file drawer... -
Impact of GDP, spending on RD, number of universities and scientific journals...
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and... -
Process, not product: investigating recommendations for improving citizen sci...
Citizen science programs are increasingly popular for a variety of reasons, from public education to new opportunities for data collection. The literature published in...
