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Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research
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Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research
Why breaking down walls between different academic disciplines could enhance our understanding of why research evidence does − or doesn’t − make it into policy.
Supporting efforts to help do better science, build community around projects or develop tools.
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A working group aiming to advance scientific research and discovery, promote technology that assists the scientific and academic communities, and make research available worldwide for the good of all humanity.
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Fear of investing in innovation is preventing promising start-ups from reaching their full potential and that’s preventing growth across Europe, a conference on the future of EU research funding heard.
Between August 2014 and September 2016, the Academic Book of the Future Project, initiated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library, explored the current and future status of the traditional academic monograph.
Many decisions about whose work is recognized are at least partially arbitrary, and we should acknowledge that.
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Public rejection might just be part of the journey to knowledge's acceptance.
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A recently published study in Research Integrity and Peer Review, that surveyed 178 trainee doctors, finds that although peer review is perceived as an important means of quality control by this community, there is little value placed on being able to scrutinize peer review themselves.
Statistical study of how names are geographically distributed suggests fewer professors are hiring relatives after 2010 clampdown.