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You don’t have to be rich to save money: On the relationship between objectiv...
Saving is an important financial behavior that provides an individual with psychological security and boosts his/her overall sense of well-being. For this reason, scientists and... -
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The Prenatal Assessment of Genome and Exomes (PAGE) project is a UK-wide study aiming to gain a better understanding of genetic variants causing developmental problems during... -
Refining animal research: The Animal Study Registry
The Animal Study Registry (ASR; www.animalstudyregistry.org) was launched in January 2019 for preregistration of animal studies in order to increase transparency and... -
Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dom...
The success of a scientist depends on their production of scientific papers and the impact factor of the journal in which they publish. Because most major scientific journals... -
Scientific productivity: An exploratory study of metrics and incentives.
Competitive pressure to maximize the current bibliometric measures of productivity is jeopardizing the integrity of the scientific literature. Efforts are underway to address... -
A citation study of earth science projects in citizen science.
A citation study of a sample of earth science projects in citizen science from the FedCats Catalog was undertaken to assess whether citizen science projects are as productive... -
Perspective: Dimensions of the scientific method
The scientific method has been guiding biological research for a long time. It not only prescribes the order and types of activities that give a scientific study validity and a... -
Validating a scale to measure engineers’ perceived self-efficacy for engineer...
Education outreach in schools has been identified as a critical route to influence children's perceptions and capabilities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics... -
Evaluation of the Pint of Science festival in Thailand
Background The Pint of Science festival is the biggest annual international science festival. In May 2017, we coordinated the first Pint of Science festival in Thailand and... -
The prehistory of biology preprints:A forgotten experiment from the 1960s
In 1961, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to circulate biological preprints in a for- gotten experiment called the Information Exchange Groups (IEGs). This system... -
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Background: The city of Wrocław in Poland represents one of Central Europeans oldest capitals of science with numerous Nobel laureates. Due to a long history of political... -
Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...
ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is... -
Voting on Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Citizens More Supportive than Politic...
As the public debate over stem cell research continues, the observable voting behaviour in Switzerland offers a unique opportunity to compare the voting behaviour of politicians... -
From systems to biology: A computational analysis of the research articles on...
: Systems biology is a discipline that studies biological systems from a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together biologists, mathematicians, computer... -
Scientific misconduct and accountability in teams
Increasing complexity and multidisciplinarity make collaboration essential for modern science. This, however, raises the question of how to assign accountability for scientific... -
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... -
Preregistration of exploratory research: Learning from the golden age of disc...
Preregistration of study protocols and, in particular, Registered Reports are novel publishing formats that are currently gaining substantial traction. Besides rating the...
