The Science That's Never Been Cited
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
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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.
Data resources can be very expensive, especially those with a high added value as the expert-curated knowledgebases.
Topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the research activity in these disciplines.
New study suggests a major return on investment for institutions that help their researchers write better grants.
A collection that explores recent developments and debates in the UK and internationally, offering varied perspectives on the future of research assessment.
Adequate sample size is key to reproducible research findings: low statistical power can increase the probability that a statistically significant result is a false positive.
Academia needs to carefully evaluate why new family friendly policies have not been very effective.
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.
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.
A large-scale empirical study based on F1000Prime, altmetrics, and citation data.
Every year, disasters impact human lives and take a significant economic toll. Science plays a key role in reducing disaster risk and mitigating impact.
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.
On the task of changing scientific research into open scientific research and commiting to Open Science principles.