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The uptake of population size estimation studies for key populations in guidi...
Background There has been a heightened emphasis on prioritizing data to inform evidence-based HIV responses, including data focused on both defining the content and scale of HIV... -
Horsepox: Framing A Dual Use Research of Concern Debate
The recent de novo assembly of horsepox is an instructive example of an information hazard: published methods enabling poxvirus synthesis led to media coverage spelling out the... -
AccessLab: Workshops to broaden access to scientific research.
AccessLabs are workshops with two simultaneous motivations, achieved through direct citizen-scientist pairings: (1) to decentralise research skills so that a broader range of... -
Have online international medical journals made local journals obsolete?
Background to the Debate All of the major international medical journals are now available both in print and online. Being online increases the potential for these journals to... -
Gender differences in grant and personnel award funding rates at the Canadian...
Background Although women at all career stages are more likely to leave academia than men, early-career women are a particularly high-risk group. Research supports that women... -
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... -
How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research fun...
Scientists are increasingly dissatisfied with funding systems that rely on peer assessment and, accordingly, have suggested several proposals for reform. One of these proposals... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Preprints: An underutilized mechanism to accelerate outbreak science.
Background In December 2019, a pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China and has rapidly spread around the world since then. Aim This study... -
Fair ranking of researchers and research teams
The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in... -
Consolidation in a crisis: Patterns of international collaboration in early C...
This paper seeks to understand whether a catastrophic and urgent event, such as the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerates or reverses trends in international... -
Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)
This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer review has been... -
The trade-off between graduate student research and teaching: A myth?
Many current faculty believe that teaching effort and research success are inversely correlated. This trade-off has rarely been empirically tested; yet, it still impedes efforts... -
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...
