A Comparative Study on Recruitment and Selection of Early-career Researchers

What if scientists benefit from participating in research grant competitions?

Findings suggest that while metrics are introduced to spur virtuous behaviours, when not properly designed they favour the usage of questionable practices.

A study that examines the publication bias due to authors’ reputation shows that more reputed authors were less likely to be rejected with negative reviews, and that journal-specificities were important but never completely reversed this outcome.

Academia needs to carefully evaluate why new family friendly policies have not been very effective.

An analysis using the CWTS Leiden Ranking data.

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.

A cautionary tale for users of bibliometric indicators.

Research policy observers are increasingly concerned about the potential impact of current academic working conditions on mental health, particularly in PhD students. One in two PhD students experiences psychological distress; one in three is at risk of a common psychiatric disorder.

While we need to alert researchers to the presence of predatory journals, we should mostly put our efforts into transforming the academic research environment and reward systems, raising standards and developing true collegiality both within and between institutions.

This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals.

Study shows that graduate students’ funding mechanisms affect their early-career job choices.

Paper showing that doubling the word frequency of an average abstract increases citations by 0.70% and that journals which publish papers whose abstracts are shorter and contain more frequently used words receive slightly more citations per paper.

Studying researchers’ CVs shows that moving jobs does not always boost a researcher’s productivity.

The non-rivalness of scientific knowledge has traditionally underpinned its status as a public good. This publication models science as a contribution game in which spillovers differentially benefit contributors over non-contributors.

This paper analyses an approach to fostering the skills required for successful cross-disciplinary collaboration from the perspective of an interdisciplinary group of early-career researchers.

Scientists who move countries tend to publish in higher-impact journals than those who remain at home, a study finds