Fallibility in Science: Responding to Errors in the Work of Oneself and Others
Fallibility in Science: Responding to Errors in the Work of Oneself and Others
For science to progress, we have to accept the inevitability of error.
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For science to progress, we have to accept the inevitability of error.
Ensuring appropriate credit and recognition in increasingly collaborative research involving multiple investigators and research groups.
Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.
Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.
ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.
Incentives and Rewards to engage in Open Science Activities.
Time series and international data are also included.
A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the ICT sector and opportunities for positive impact.
Overall satisfaction with the peer review system used by scholarly journals seems to strongly vary across disciplines.
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
Editors of scientific journals are a far less diverse group than the scientists in scientific publications.
The infrastructure school, the public school, the measurement school, the democratic school, and the pragmatic school.
An report on US threats to academic freedom in science, particularly in the areas of international scholarly exchange and climate science.
Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort.
How the Swiss education system (re)produces inequalities between women and men.
Proposing and testing a new indicator, the Mantel-Haenszel quotient.
In an open letter scientometricians make a call to scholarly publishers to make the reference lists of the articles they publish openly available.
Income and gender make a big difference in who winds up inventing.
Scientists who collaborate locally publish more papers and are more highly cited than those who engage in long-distance relationships.
The secret to unlocking innovation isn’t tax cuts - it’s equality.
The traditional journal publishing system, the recent open access models of journal publishing as an evolving phenomenon, the nature and extent of open access as a disruptive innovation, and the implications for key stakeholders.
A comprehensive and data-driven portrait of Europe’s technology ecosystem.
Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to understand how well they work and if they could be improved.
For the year 2016, 28.9 % of all peer-reviewed articles produced within the Finnish universities were reported as being OA.