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Meta-Research: Why Research on Research Matters
Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits.
The Unbearable Emptiness of Tweeting
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.
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Case Study on Researcher Strategies Against Fear of Scooping in the Context of Open Science
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference?
Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference?
A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.
From the Field: Elsevier as an Open Access Publisher
Elsevier’s Open Access journals as of 2016.
Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers
Highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers.
Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
A basic set of rules to improve figure design and to explain some of the common pitfalls.
PLOS Releases an Open Data Collection
PLOS Releases an Open Data Collection
A PLOS selection of research articles, guidelines, and commentaries about data sharing, data practices, and data policies from different research fields.
A Practical Guide for Improving Transparency and Reproducibility in Neuroimaging Research
A Practical Guide for Improving Transparency and Reproducibility in Neuroimaging Research
This guide covers three major topics in open science (data, code, and publications) and offers practical advice as well as highlighting advantages of adopting more open research practices.
Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful
John Ioannidis argues that problem base, context placement, information gain, pragmatism, patient centeredness, value for money, feasibility, and transparency define useful clinical research. He suggests most clinical research is not useful and reform is overdue.
Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice
A list of 10 rules with researchers in mind: researchers having some knowledge of statistics, possibly with one or more statisticians available in their building, or possibly with a healthy do-it-yourself attitude and a handful of statistical packages on their laptops.
Is Science Built on the Shoulders of Women?
A Study of Gender Differences in Contributorship.
Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached
Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached.
Qauality and transparency of the peer-review process
The transparency of the peer-review process is an indicator of peer-review quality.
Media coverage and journal press releases associated with high-impact medical journals
Media coverage and journal press releases associated with high-impact medical journals
The design of clinical studies whose results are published in high-impact medical journals is not associated with the likelihood or amount of ensuing news coverage.
Public data archiving in ecology and evolution
This paper highlights key guidelines to help authors increase their data’s reuse potential and compliance with journal data policies.
Reproducible research practices and transparency across the biomedical literature
Reproducible research practices and transparency across the biomedical literature
Replication studies are rare and only a few had their data included in a subsequent systematic review or meta-analysis.
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
Examining the impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on the citation rates of journal articles
Study examining whether NIH funded articles that were archived in PMC after the release of the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy show greater scholarly impact than comparable articles not archived in PMC.
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Biology top journals share original data at the highest rate, and physics top journals share at the lowest rate.
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
A spatiotemporal analysis of Brazilian science from the perspective of researchers' career trajectories
An analysis of the education of researchers that constitute the main Brazilian research groups, using data on about 6,000 researchers.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
The question of data integrity in Article-Level Metrics
As interest in and use of article-level metrics grows, it is critical to ensure secure and reliable data that is trustworthy and can be used by all.
Do Nobel Laureates create prize-winning networks?
Laureates produce fewer papers but with higher average citations, more sole-authored papers both before and after winning the Prize, and have a lower number of coauthors across their entire careers than the matched group.
I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work?
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
How to Receive More Funding for Your Research? Get Connected to the Right People!
In the quest for the research money it is more important how researchers build their collaboration network than what publications they produce and whether they are cited.