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Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation

Dimensions: Building Context for Search and Evaluation

Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.

What's Stopping Young African Scientists from Achieving Their Potential

What's Stopping Young African Scientists from Achieving Their Potential

The Global State of Young Scientists Africa project investigates the challenges that shape the career trajectories of young African scientists.

Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Create Deeper Insights from Cutting Edge Scientific and Medical Research

Springer Nature announced a collaboration with Watson Health to expand and enhance the integration of valuable genomics.

Mum is a Neanderthal, Dad is a Denisovan - First Discovery of an Ancient-human Hybrid

Mum is a Neanderthal, Dad is a Denisovan - First Discovery of an Ancient-human Hybrid

Genetic analysis uncovers a direct descendant of two different groups of early humans.

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

How Many Wikipedia References Are Available to Read? We Measured the Proportion of Open Access Sources Across Languages and Topics

When following a link to the official version of a scholarly article, Wikipedia readers are twice as likely to hit a paywall than one they can freely read.

Where Do the Numbers Published in Scientific Articles Come From?

Where Do the Numbers Published in Scientific Articles Come From?

Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.

Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop

Reproducibility and Replication - University of Zurich Center for Reproducible Science Kickoff Workshop

A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.

Are Open Data Actually Reusable?

Are Open Data Actually Reusable?

Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.

Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability

Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability

This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.

 

The Challenges of Creating World-Class Universities in China

The Challenges of Creating World-Class Universities in China

The obsession with internationalization had resulted in priority being given to overseas scholars and graduates and has diminished graduates of many top domestic universities to second or third-class status.

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.