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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,... -
Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit exp...
A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment,... -
SinoPedia—A Linked Data Services platform for decentralized knowledge base
Knowledge bases are largely developed and utilized in academic and industrial fields, such as DBPedia, VIAF, LoC, Getty, and which are published in the Linked Data format.... -
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... -
Scientific crowdsourcing in wildlife research and conservation: Tigers (Panth...
With around 3,200 tigers (Panthera tigris) left in the wild, the governments of 13 tiger range countries recently declared that there is a need for innovation to aid tiger... -
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... -
An improved collaborative filtering method based on similarity
The recommender system is widely used in the field of e-commerce and plays an important role in guiding customers to make smart decisions. Although many algorithms are available... -
Retailer Stackelberg game in a supply chain with pricing and service decision...
: This paper studies the Retailer Stackelberg game in a supply chain consisting of two manufacturers and one retailer where they compete simultaneously under three factors... -
A decision support model for investment on P2P lending platform.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, as a novel economic lending model, has triggered new challenges on making effective investment decisions. In a P2P lending platform, one lender can... -
Fifteen years in, what next for PLOS Biology?
As we celebrate our anniversary, the PLOS Biology editors discuss recent initiatives taken by the journal (meta-research, complementary research policy, preprint posting, short... -
webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurem...
: Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from... -
Impact of consumer power on consumers’ reactions to corporate transgression
We addressed how individuals' power influences their judgments regarding corporate transgressions. Based on the Situated Focus Theory of Power, which theorizes that powerful... -
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... -
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... -
Exploring the ethical issues in research using digital data collection strate...
While emerging digital health technologies offer researchers new avenues to collect real-time data, little is known about current ethical dimensions, considerations, and... -
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... -
Improving efficiency in neuroimaging research through application of Lean pri...
Introduction "Lean" is a set of management principles which focus on increasing value and efficiency by reducing or avoiding waste (e.g., overproduction, defects, inventory,... -
Completeness and overlap in open access systems: Search engines, aggregate in...
This study examines the completeness and overlap of coverage in physics of six open access scholarly communication systems, including two search engines (Google Scholar and... -
PlotsOfData—A web app for visualizing data together with their summaries
Reporting of the actual data in graphs and plots increases transparency and enables independent evaluation. On the other hand, data summaries are often used in graphs because... -
Medicine and the media: Medical experts' problems and solutions while working...
Medical experts are one of the main sources used by journalists in reporting on medical science. This study aims to 1) identify problems that medical experts encounter in...