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The emergent integrated network structure of scientific research
Scientific research is often thought of as being conducted by individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely... -
The perceived feasibility of methods to reduce publication bias
Publication bias is prevalent within the scientific literature. Whilst there are multiple ideas on how to reduce publication bias, only a minority of journals have made... -
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... -
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... -
Improving the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethics of biomedical research ...
The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists,... -
Usage Trends of Open Access and Local Journals: A Korean Case Study.
Articles from open access and local journals are important resources for research in Korea and the usage trends of these articles are important indicators for the assessment of... -
Engaging policy in science writing: Patterns and strategies
: Many scientific researchers aspire to engage policy in their writing, but translating scientific research and findings into policy discussion often requires an understanding... -
Dissemination of novel biostatistics methods: Impact of programming code avai...
Background As statisticians develop new methodological approaches, there are many factors that influence whether others will utilize their work. This paper is a bibliometric... -
A systematic review and evidence synthesis of non-medical triage, self-referr...
Introduction\ud The demand for musculoskeletal (MSK) care is rising, and is a growing challenge for general practice. Direct access to physiotherapy and other healthcare... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Plan U: Universal access to scientific and medical research via funder prepri...
Preprint servers such as arXiv and bioRxiv represent a highly successful and relatively low cost mechanism for providing free access to research findings. By decoupling the... -
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... -
The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong...
The growth in scientific production may threaten the capacity for the scientific community to handle the ever-increasing demand for peer review of scientific publications. There...
