How Retractions Hurt Scientists' Credibility
Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.
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Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.
Data-driven methods have come to dominate many scientific fields, but many fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility.
Most PhD students in the biological sciences will not go on to become academics.
A systematic review of definitions of “open peer review” or “open review”, to create a corpus of 122 definitions.
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The future of data science education in a data democratized world.
Free online tools for networking, data sharing and measuring research impact.
No generalizable gold OA citation advantage at journal level.
A unified definition of open peer review – an author and reviewer in conversation
Big Science and cross‐disciplinary collaborations have reshaped the intellectual structure of research areas. A number of works have tried to uncover this hidden intellectual structure.
Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sciences extends to measuring the impact of research with Twitter data being a key component in the new altmetrics approach.
Cultural differences between industry and academia can create or increase difficulties in reproducing research findings.
New paper illustrates the brutal and sexist comments faced by women in economics, and likely other fields as well.
When comparing journals using citation-based metrics, the percentage of highly cited papers is more informative than the average number of citations.
Self-citations, if left unchecked, can have a negative impact on the scientific workforce, the way that we publish new knowledge, and ultimately the course of scientific advance.
A quantitative analysis of contemporary publishing patterns in the humanities, as well as a conceptual account of the historical relationship of publishing practices to the modern research university.
Established publishers have a strong motivation to hype claims of predation as damaging to the scholarly and scientific endeavour.
Guidelines for active and efficient data sharing between those generating data and those analyzing it.
Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas.
Scientists are required to communicate science and research not only to other experts in the field, but also to scientists and experts from other fields, as well as to the public and policymakers. One fundamental suggestion when communicating with non-experts is to avoid professional jargon.
Published P-values provide a window into the global enterprise of medical research. The aim of this study was to use the distribution of published P-values to estimate the relative frequencies of null and alternative hypotheses and to seek irregularities suggestive of publication bias.