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Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...
Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on... -
Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the schol...
While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in... -
Development of a knowledge translation platform for ataxia: Impact on readers...
AbstractBackgroundDissemination of accurate health research information to patients and families has become increasingly important with the rise of the internet as a means of... -
A case study exploring associations between popular media attention of scient...
The association between mention of scientific research in popular media (e.g., the mainstream media or social media platforms) and scientific impact (e.g., citations) has yet to... -
BraX-Ray: an X-ray of the Brazilian computer science graduate programs.
Research productivity assessment is increasingly relevant for allocation of research funds. On one hand, this assessment is challenging because it involves both qualitative and... -
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... -
Public communication of data-based research in cities
Trilles, S., Granell, C., Degbelo, A., & Bhattacharya, D. (2020). Interactive guidelines: Public communication of data-based research in cities. PLoS ONE, 15(1), [e0228008].... -
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... -
Using citizen science to expand the global map of landslides: Introducing the...
Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at... -
Using Selfies to Challenge Public Stereotypes of Scientists
In an online Qualtrics panel survey experiment (N = 1620), we found that scientists posting self-portraits ("selfies") to Instagram from the science lab/field were perceived as... -
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... -
An emerging form of public engagement with science: Ask Me Anything (AMA) ses...
Originally, online public engagement with science tended to be one directional-from experts to the general population via news media. Such an arrangement allowed for little to... -
Using egocentric analysis to investigate professional networks and productivi...
: Prior studies showed that scientists' professional networks contribute to research productivity, but little work has examined what factors predict the formation of... -
Social media as a data resource for #monkseal conservation.
The prevalence of social media platforms that share photos and videos could prove useful for wildlife research and conservation programs. When social media users post pictures... -
Self-reported willingness to share political news articles in online surveys ...
There is an increasing imperative for psychologists and other behavioral scientists to understand how people behave on social media. However, it is often very difficult to... -
Public communication by research institutes compared across countries and sci...
Leading academic institutions, governments, and funders of research across the world have spent the last few decades fretting publicly about the need for scientists and research... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
Survey on opinions and usage patterns for the ResearchGate platform
: Based on a survey, the following study investigates opinions and also usage patterns relating to the ResearchGate social networking site for scientists and researchers. The... -
The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier "Botometer" was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given... -
Sense of belonging within the graduate community of a research-focused STEM d...
It is well-documented that the representation of women and racial/ethnic minorities diminishes at higher levels of academia, particularly in science, technology, engineering,...
