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Science's Golden Oldies: the Decades-old Research Papers Still Heavily Cited Today
Science's Golden Oldies: the Decades-old Research Papers Still Heavily Cited Today
Major Journals ‘Publishing Papers from Russian-Controlled Ukraine’
Ukrainian researchers urge publishing sector giants to “end de facto cooperation with Russia”.
The Citation Black Market: Schemes Selling Fake References Alarm Scientists
The Citation Black Market: Schemes Selling Fake References Alarm Scientists
Why Are Women Cited Less Than Men?
Strong evidence suggests that women are not cited less per article than men, but that they accumulate fewer citations over time and at the career level. Cary Wu argues that a focus on research productivity is key to understanding and closing the gender citation gap.
Towards Theorizing Peer Review
Academic peer review is seriously undertheorized because peer review studies focus on discovering and confirming phenomena, such as biases, and are much less concerned with explaining, predicting, or controlling phenomena on a theoretical basis.
ERROR: A Bug Bounty Program for Science
ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications.
Scientific Publishing: The First Year of a New Era
ELife's New Model: One Year On
Designing for Diversity - What Makes People Pick Up a Science Magazine?
REF Pushes Academics to Churn out Lower Quality Research, New Study Shows
REF Pushes Academics to Churn out Lower Quality Research, New Study Shows
The UK Government’s research evaluation system encourages a higher quantity and lower quality of work from academics, according to a recent paper.
Who Did What: Changing How Science Papers Are Written to Detail Author Contributions
Who Did What: Changing How Science Papers Are Written to Detail Author Contributions
Can science papers be more transparent with respect to who thought of each idea, who ran each experiment, and who analysed the data?
Mistakes Happen in Research Papers. But Corrections Often Don't
A culture of fear around corrections and retractions is hampering efforts to maintain the integrity of scientific research.
10 Frontiers Articles That Caught the World's Attention in 2022 - Science & Research News
10 Frontiers Articles That Caught the World's Attention in 2022 - Science & Research News
By Frontiers' science writers As part of Frontiers' passion to make science available to all, we highlight just a small selection of the most fascinating research published with us each month to help inspire current and future researchers to achieve their research dreams. 2022 was no different, and saw many game-changing discoveries contribute to the
Focus on PhD Quality, Not Publications: We Need to Encourage Scholars to Become Inquisitive Explorers, Papers Will Naturally Follow
Focus on PhD Quality, Not Publications: We Need to Encourage Scholars to Become Inquisitive Explorers, Papers Will Naturally Follow
Does forcing students to mandatorily publish a research paper before thesis submission lead to a high-quality PhD thesis, or does high-quality PhD work lead to publications in good journals? This question is unlike the chicken...
Who'll Pay for Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
The White House painted an incomplete economic picture of its new policy for free, immediate access to research produced with federal grants. Will publishers adapt their business models to comply, or will scholars be on the hook?
Key Role in Evaluation Procedure: the Evaluation Panels and Their Members
Key Role in Evaluation Procedure: the Evaluation Panels and Their Members
The SNSF's National Research Council decides whether or not to fund applications. The 89 evaluation panels handle the preparatory work on which it bases its decisions, assessing several thousand applications each year.
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.
When is 'Self-Plagiarism' OK? New Guidelines Offer Researchers Rules for Recycling Text
When is 'Self-Plagiarism' OK? New Guidelines Offer Researchers Rules for Recycling Text
Effort aims to identify what's ethical and legal-and what's not.
Quality Shines when Scientists Use Publishing Tactic Known As Registered Reports, Study Finds
Quality Shines when Scientists Use Publishing Tactic Known As Registered Reports, Study Finds
Papers accepted by journals before results are known rate higher on rigor than standard studies.
The Marginal Impact of a Publication on Citations, and Its Effect on Academic Pay
The Marginal Impact of a Publication on Citations, and Its Effect on Academic Pay
There are good reasons for why academicians should care about citations to scholarly articles. An important one is that members of the academy operate essentially as independent contractors.
Quantitative Quality: a Study on How Performance-based Measures May Change the Publication Patterns of Danish Researchers
Quantitative Quality: a Study on How Performance-based Measures May Change the Publication Patterns of Danish Researchers
Nations the world over are increasingly turning to quantitative performance-based metrics to evaluate the quality of research outputs, as these metrics are abundant and provide an easy measure of ranking research. In 2010, the Danish Ministry of Science and Higher Education followed this trend and began portioning out a percentage of the available research funding according to how many research outputs each Danish university produces. Not all research outputs are eligible: only those published in a curated list of academic journals and publishers, the so-called BFI list, are included. The BFI list is ranked, which may create incentives for academic authors to target certain publication outlets or publication types over others. In this study we examine the potential effect these relatively new research evaluation methods have had on the publication patterns of researchers in Denmark. The study finds that publication behaviors in the Natural Sciences & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have changed, while the Health Sciences appear unaffected. Researchers in Natural Sciences & Technology appear to focus on high impact journals that reap more BFI points. While researchers in SSH have also increased their focus on the impact of the publication outlet, they also appear to have altered their preferred publication types, publishing more journal articles in the Social Sciences and more anthologies in the Humanities.
In Search of Outstanding Research Advances: Prototyping the Creation of an Open Dataset of "editorial Highlights"
In Search of Outstanding Research Advances: Prototyping the Creation of an Open Dataset of "editorial Highlights"
Indonesia Publishes the Most Open-access Journals in the World: What It Means for Local Research
Indonesia Publishes the Most Open-access Journals in the World: What It Means for Local Research
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
Can We Estimate a Monetary Value of Scientific Publications?
Policymakers are beginning to put monetary value on scientific publications. What does this mean for researchers?
An Extensive Analysis of the Presence of Altmetric Data for Web of Science Publications Across Subject Fields and Research Topics
An Extensive Analysis of the Presence of Altmetric Data for Web of Science Publications Across Subject Fields and Research Topics
This paper presents a state-of-the-art analysis of the presence of 12 kinds of altmetric events for nearly 12.3 million Web of Science publications published between 2012 and 2018.
Overcoming the Discoverability Crisis
The current pandemic has exposed a host of issues with the current scholarly communication system, also with regard to the discoverability of scientific knowledge. Many research groups have pivoted to Covid-19 research without prior experience or adequate preparation. They were immediately confronted with two discovery challenges: (1) having to identify relevant knowledge from unfamiliar (sub-)disciplines with their own terminology and publication culture, and (2) having to keep up with the rapid growth of data and publications and being able to filter out the relevant findings.
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them.
Mis-allocated Scrutiny
In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly?
Delineating COVID-19 and Coronavirus Research
Many initiatives are keeping track of research on COVID-19 and coronaviruses. These initiatives, while valuable because they allow for fast access to relevant research, pose the question of subject delineation. We analyse here one such initiative, the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19).