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Experimenter Gender and Replicability in Science
There is a replication crisis spreading through the annals of scientific inquiry.
Badges for Sharing Data and Code at Biostatistics
Reproducible research includes sharing data and code. The reproducibility policy at the journal Biostatistics rewards articles with badges for data and code sharing. This study investigates the effect of badges at increasing reproducible research, specifically, data and code sharing, at Biostatistics.
State of Science Enterprise Report 2018
The new report 2018 shows that the US leads in S&E as China rapidly advances.
The Peer Review Process for Awarding Funds to International Science Research Consortia: a Qualitative Developmental Evaluation
The Peer Review Process for Awarding Funds to International Science Research Consortia: a Qualitative Developmental Evaluation
This article describes the use of qualitative research to explore the peer review process used for awarding grants to ten multi-national natural science research consortia
Make Replication Studies a Normal Part of Science
The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of an advisory report by the Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Gender Pay Gap Persists
Pay disparities between female and male PhD holders in the United States exist across almost all fields of science and engineering, according to a report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
What Makes Academic Careers Less Insecure? The Role of Individual-Level Antecedents
Paper advising universities to provide early-career researchers with temporal space for research and networking, facilitate stays at other universities, inform them about career success factors, and tailor faculty development programmes to the distinct stages of academic careers.
Representing A "Revolution": How the Popular Press Has Portrayed Personalized Medicine
When Evaluating Research, Different Metrics Tell Us Different Things
Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.
Modelling Science Trustworthiness Under Publish or Perish Pressure
Analysis suggesting that trustworthiness of published science in a given field is influenced by false positive rate, and pressures for positive results. We find decreasing available funding has negative consequences for resulting trustworthiness, and examine strategies to combat propagation of irreproducible science.
Open Access Knowledge: Digital Style Guide - Writing for Research
Style guide presents central principles, issues, and innovations regarding open access citations.
Open Access Levels: A Quantitative Exploration Using Web of Science and oaDOI Data
Open Access Levels: A Quantitative Exploration Using Web of Science and oaDOI Data
Using newly available open access status data, year-on-year open access levels are explored across research fields, languages, countries, institutions, funders and topics, and the resulting patterns are related to disciplinary, national and institutional contexts.
On the Origin of Nonequivalent States: How We Can Talk About Preprints
On the role of different stakeholders on how to collectively improve the process of scholarly communications not only for preprints, but other forms of scholarly contributions.
Ten Simple Rules for Drawing Scientific Comics
An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
Granularity of Algorithmically Constructed Publication-Level Classifications of Research Publications: Identification of Topics
Granularity of Algorithmically Constructed Publication-Level Classifications of Research Publications: Identification of Topics
Automatic identification of topics from the classification of research publications.
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Journal Peer Review: A Bar or Bridge? An Analysis of a Paper's Revision History and Turnaround Time, and the Effect on Citation
Article exploring the journal peer review process, examining how the reviewing process might itself contribute to papers, leading them to be more highly cited and to achieve greater recognition.
Short-Termism in Science: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework
Short-Termism in Science: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework
Article documenting increases in research output quantity - accompanied by decreases in quality - near the time of government-set deadlines for university evaluations.
Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions
Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions
Article enumerating five characteristics that a scientific code in computational science should possess.
Attitudes and Norms Affecting Scientists' Data Reuse
Article showing that the perceived efficacy and efficiency of data reuse are strong predictors of reuse behavior, and that the perceived importance of data reuse corresponds to greater reuse.
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.
The Relative Influences of Government Funding and International Collaboration on Citation Impact
Authorship and Team Science
Ensuring appropriate credit and recognition in increasingly collaborative research involving multiple investigators and research groups.
Policy Considerations for Random Allocation of Research Funds
Towards a fully-fledged policy proposal, including issues of cost and fairness.
Female Grant Applicants Are Equally Successful When Peer Reviewers Assess the Science, but Not When They Assess the Scientist
Study Finds Men Speak Twice as Often as Do Women at Colloquiums
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.
Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative
ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.