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A Link between Author Gender and Attention to Gender and Sex Analysis

A Link between Author Gender and Attention to Gender and Sex Analysis

An analysis of a large database of medical research papers shows a correlation between women's authorship and the likelihood of a study including gender and sex analysis.

Authorship and Contribution Disclosures

Authorship and Contribution Disclosures

Journals are adopting policies that require the disclosure of individual authors’ contributions. However, it is not clear whether and how these disclosures improve upon the conventional approach.

Do Bibliometrics and Altmetrics Correlate With the Quality of Papers?

Do Bibliometrics and Altmetrics Correlate With the Quality of Papers?

A  large-scale empirical study based on F1000Prime, altmetrics, and citation  data.

Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective

Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective

The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.

Research and Innovation Futures After Brexit: Scenarios

Research and Innovation Futures After Brexit: Scenarios

A set of scenarios produced by the School of International Futures, published here as a tool for others to use in exploring alternative futures for UK research and innovation.

Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus

Study Finds Male Ph.D. Candidates Submit and Publish Papers at Significantly Higher Rates Than Female Peers on the Same Campus

Study finds male Ph.D. candidates submit and publish papers at significantly higher rates than their female peers, even within the same institution. The majors drivers of that gap remain unclear, but one factor is that women teach more during their Ph.D. programs and men serve more often as research assistants.

A Journal Is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

A Journal Is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing

While part of the original motivation of the first research publication in serial form — the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 — was to make money, the early history of scholarly publishing is largely one of community subsidy to cover losses or breaking even.

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

Emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review.

Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed

Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed

Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.

Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives

Motivating Participation in Open Science by Examining Researcher Incentives

A survey of researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital provides insights into the challenges and opportunities involved in adopting an open science policy across an entire patient-oriented academic institution.