Although citations and related metrics like the H-index are widely used in academia to evaluate research and allocate resources, the referencing decisions on which they are based are poorly understood. This paper investigates whether authors reference works that influenced them most or those they believe the readers will value most.
By denying the realities of sex, gender, and race, the White House's statements worsen inequity and cause harm.
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Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don't have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.
"Truly open scholarship also requires that bibliographic references be freely available for analysis and reuse", says David Shotton, co-director of OpenCitations.
An Electronic Frontier Foundation investigation of public records acquired from dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies has uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology.
Industry chemist Nathan Allen spends his spare time creating a place for open, civil debate about science online.
Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education Rankings. According to its president, most of these rankings are "black boxes" whose methods raise ethical questions.
An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R.
Some U.S. researchers knew of a Chinese scientist's intentions to implant edited embryos but were unable to stop him. Now scientific institutions are trying to devise global safeguards.
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Getting a job at a top university will not make you a better researcher
How can the scientific community support researchers with mental health issues?
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An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
The same gender disparity goes for politicians, athletes, and other high-profile figures
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Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
We present a large-scale comparison of five multidisciplinary bibliographic data sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic. The comparison considers scientific documents from the period 2008-2017 covered by these data sources. Scopus is compared in a pairwise manner with each of the other data sources. We first analyze differences between the data sources in the coverage of documents, focusing for instance on differences over time, differences per document type, and differences per discipline. We then study differences in the completeness and accuracy of citation links. Based on our analysis, we discuss strengths and weaknesses of the different data sources. We emphasize the importance of combining a comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature with a flexible set of filters for making selections of the literature.
So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules.
An algorithm makes highly precise predictions about who will win the Nobel Prize but disagrees with the committee on the 2008 prize winner.
A set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill.
Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.
In the past month, PLOS ONE and Transplantation have retracted fifteen studies by authors in China because of suspicions that the authors may have used organs from executed prisoners.
