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Scraping Google Scholar to Write your PhD Literature Chapter

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Scraping Google Scholar to Write your PhD Literature Chapter

This post is about a prototype ‘network’ approach to finding papers using data from Google Scholar.

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OpenUP Hub

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OpenUP Hub

An open, dynamic and collaborative knowledge environment that systematically captures, organizes and categorizes research outcomes, best practices, tools, and guidelines.

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Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change

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Those 3% of Scientific Papers that Deny Climate Change

A review found them all flawed. Scientists who deny climate change are not modern-day Galileos.

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Global Overview of the Numbers of Researchers

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Global Overview of the Numbers of Researchers

The number of researchers in upper and lower middle-income countries has doubled between 2002 and 2014.

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Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

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Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research

Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.

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Puppetmasters - Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy?

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Puppetmasters - Who Is Pulling the Strings in the New Information Economy?

Information manipulation is not new, yet everything is different. How do governments, preprints, algorithms, and our own responsibilities intersect? Where does peer review come in now?

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Bill Gates Makes $100 Million Personal Investment to Fight Alzheimer's

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Bill Gates Makes $100 Million Personal Investment to Fight Alzheimer's

Gates to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

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65 out of the 100 Most Cited Papers Are Paywalled

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65 out of the 100 Most Cited Papers Are Paywalled

The world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world.

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Scholarly Publications Beyond Pay-Walls: Increased Citation Advantage for Open Publishing

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Scholarly Publications Beyond Pay-Walls: Increased Citation Advantage for Open Publishing

A clear citation advantage for open publishing with open available documents receiving twice as many citations.

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Censorship

She Took On Colombia's Soda Industry. Then She Was Silenced.

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She Took On Colombia's Soda Industry. Then She Was Silenced.

The debate over taxing sugary drinks has turned into a ferocious global policy brawl. In Colombia, proponents faced intimidation and censorship.

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Trouble at the Top

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Trouble at the Top

Declining outputs in California, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland have made the biggest dent in US science.

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The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

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The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech

Algorithms are shaping our lives. Where'€™s academia when it comes to helping us make sense of this?

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The Mystery of the Phantom Reference: A Detective Story

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The Mystery of the Phantom Reference: A Detective Story

Short summary of white paper that shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times.

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Publishing

Reviewer Bias in Single- Versus Double-Blind Peer Review

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Reviewer Bias in Single- Versus Double-Blind Peer Review

Single-blind reviewing confers a significant advantage to papers with famous authors and authors from high-prestige institutions.

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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

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Manipulating the Alpha Level Cannot Cure Significance Testing

Comments on "Redefine statistical significance"

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Biomedicine

First Digital Pill Approved

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First Digital Pill Approved

The medicine, an antipsychotic drug, has a sensor that will show doctors whether and when patients are taking it. Other medicines will follow, experts say.

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LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures

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LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) proposes four golden principles for enhancing the competitiveness of medium-sized research infrastructures in Europe.

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Need a Paper? Get a Plug-In

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Need a Paper? Get a Plug-In

A collection of web-browser plug-ins is making the scholarly literature more discoverable.

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Sci-Hub Won't Be Blocked by US ISPs Anytime Soon

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Sci-Hub Won't Be Blocked by US ISPs Anytime Soon

Google and Comcast won't be asked to take action anytime soon.

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Publishing

The Future of Open Access Should Not Be Left to the Legacy Publishers

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The Future of Open Access Should Not Be Left to the Legacy Publishers

The interests of the legacy publishers cannot co-exist with the ideals of the Open Access movement.

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Communication

The Reluctant Scientist: When Meeting Presenters Get Cold Feet

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The Reluctant Scientist: When Meeting Presenters Get Cold Feet

Does press coverage ever lead to papers’ rejection?

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Infographics in Science Reporting

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Infographics in Science Reporting

Why you should use them, and how to do it well.

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Open Access
Publishing

It’s Time for a Revolution in Data Access

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It’s Time for a Revolution in Data Access

Trevor Mundel, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is eager to see Gates Open Research match the performance of Wellcome Open Research.

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History

Women Cracked Wartime Codes. They Can Fix Tech Today, Too.

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Women Cracked Wartime Codes. They Can Fix Tech Today, Too.

Genius is a male trait, it was widely believed in the 1940s.

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Predicting Future Research

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Foresight

Predicting Future Research

To predict what research will be transformative, a crystal ball might be your best option.

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Graduate Students Face Alarming Tax Hike

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Graduate Students Face Alarming Tax Hike

Adding to PhD students’ woes will undermine US research and economy.

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Highly Cited Researchers List 2017

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Highly Cited Researchers List 2017

The Highly Cited Researchers list represents some of the world’s most influential minds, as determined by an analysis of citations in Web of Science.

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Open Access

African Academy of Science to Put Its Research on Global Stage With Innovative New Publishing Platform

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African Academy of Science to Put Its Research on Global Stage With Innovative New Publishing Platform

The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.

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European Open Access Champions

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European Open Access Champions

Inspiration from influential European academics on Open Access.

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UK

Brexit Threatens Reputation for Scientific Research

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Brexit Threatens Reputation for Scientific Research

Leadership is ‘sorely lacking’ in key areas such as robotics and climate change, parliament’s spending monitor warns.

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