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- August 12, 2016
- 06:52 AM
- 383 views
Discovering a glaring error in a research paper – a personal account
by Richard Kunert in Brain's Idea
New York Magazine has published a great article about how grad student Steven Ludeke tried to correct mistakes in the research of Pete Hatemi and Brad Verhulst. Overall, Ludeke summarises his experience as ‘not recommendable’. Back in my undergraduate years I spotted an error in an article by David DeMatteo and did little to correct it. […]... Read more »
DeMatteo, D., Heilbrun, K., & Marczyk, G. (2006) An empirical investigation of psychopathy in a noninstitutionalized and noncriminal sample. Behavioral Sciences , 24(2), 133-146. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.667
Gao, Y., & Raine, A. (2010) Successful and unsuccessful psychopaths: A neurobiological model. Behavioral Sciences . DOI: 10.1002/bsl.924
Kunert, R. (2016) Internal conceptual replications do not increase independent replication success. Psychonomic Bulletin . DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1030-9
Rucević S. (2010) Psychopathic personality traits and delinquent and risky sexual behaviors in Croatian sample of non-referred boys and girls. Law and human behavior, 34(5), 379-91. PMID: 19728057
Ullrich, S., Farrington, D., & Coid, J. (2008) Psychopathic personality traits and life-success. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(5), 1162-1171. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.11.008
- May 16, 2016
- 08:43 AM
- 410 views
Academic publication quality and the senility of science
by gdw in FictionalFieldwork
A recent column in Nature by Daniel Sarewitz laments the ever increasing torrent of academic publications. Quantity goes up, but quality does not follow suit. There are more scientists than ever. And they publish more than ever. However, that doesn’t mean they publish more high quality research. This harks back to the work of Derek J. […]... Read more »
Kidwell MC, Lazarević LB, Baranski E, Hardwicke TE, Piechowski S, Falkenberg LS, Kennett C, Slowik A, Sonnleitner C, Hess-Holden C.... (2016) Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency. PLoS biology, 14(5). PMID: 27171007
Sarewitz D. (2016) The pressure to publish pushes down quality. Nature, 147. PMID: 27172010
- May 10, 2016
- 03:47 AM
- 452 views
Getting Published (the story behind the paper)
by Christophe Dessimoz in Open Reading Frame
Our paper “A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Published: 35 Tips for Early Career Researchers” just came out in Frontiers in Plant Science. This is the story behind the paper.
For my second postdoc, I was the fortunate receipient of a PLANT FELLOWS scholarship. PLANT FELLOWS is an international program that provides research grants to postdocs in the field of plant science. The fellows are based at many different host institutions throughout Europe. I myself am working at Bayer Crop Science ........ Read more »
Glover, N., Antoniadi, I., George, G., Götzenberger, L., Gutzat, R., Koorem, K., Liancourt, P., Rutowicz, K., Saharan, K., You, W.... (2016) A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Published: 35 Tips for Early Career Researchers. Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00610
- December 31, 2015
- 03:10 AM
- 675 views
ASCB15 – part 2
by Gal Haimovich in Green Fluorescent Blog
I ended Part 1 after the morning session on pushing the boundaries of imaging. After the amazing talks on imaging, I browsed the halls, visited some exhibitors, sampled a couple of exhibitor tech-talks. I later went to a mycrosymposium (#2: signaling … Continue reading →... Read more »
Smith C, Lari A, Derrer CP, Ouwehand A, Rossouw A, Huisman M, Dange T, Hopman M, Joseph A, Zenklusen D.... (2015) In vivo single-particle imaging of nuclear mRNA export in budding yeast demonstrates an essential role for Mex67p. The Journal of cell biology, 211(6), 1121-30. PMID: 26694837
Nelles DA, Fang MY, Aigner S, & Yeo GW. (2015) Applications of Cas9 as an RNA-programmed RNA-binding protein. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 37(7), 732-9. PMID: 25880497
Vale RD. (2015) Accelerating scientific publication in biology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(44), 13439-46. PMID: 26508643
- December 8, 2015
- 12:46 PM
- 996 views
The Dire State of Science in the Muslim World
by Jalees Rehman in The Next Regeneration
Universities and the scientific infrastructures in Muslim-majority countries need to undergo radical reforms if they want to avoid falling by the wayside in a world characterized by major scientific and technological innovations. This is the conclusion reached by Nidhal Guessoum and Athar Osama in their recent commentary "Institutions: Revive universities of the Muslim world", published in the scientific journal Nature. The physics and astronomy professor Guessoum (American University ........ Read more »
Guessoum N, & Osama A. (2015) Institutions: Revive universities of the Muslim world. Nature, 526(7575), 634-6. PMID: 26511563
Romanowski, M., & Nasser, R. (2010) Faculty perceptions of academic freedom at a GCC university. PROSPECTS, 40(4), 481-497. DOI: 10.1007/s11125-010-9166-2
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- March 17, 2015
- 08:31 AM
- 1,137 views
Gender equality in science: it takes a village
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
SUMMARY: Late last year, a metastudy was published showing that, since 2000, things are improving for women working in most STEM-based fields, although there are some notable exceptions... Read more »
Ceci S. J., S. Kahn, & W. M. Williams. (2014) Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 15(3), 75-141. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1529100614541236
Smith Kristin A., Fiona M. Watt, & Susan L. Solomon. (2015) Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Cell Stem Cell, 16(3), 221-224. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.012
- March 11, 2015
- 10:14 AM
- 1,030 views
Citizen science is making scientists of everyone
by GrrlScientist in Maniraptora
SUMMARY: Citizen science is getting a lot of attention these days, which might make you think it is a new social phenomenon. But in fact, nothing is further from the truth.... Read more »
Blackawton P. S., Airzee S. , Allen A., Baker S., Berrow A., Blair C., Churchill M., Coles J., Cumming R. F.-J., & Fraquelli L. (2011) Blackawton bees. Biology Letters, 168-172. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1056
Silvertown Jonathan. (2009) A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24(9), 467-471. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.03.017
- March 8, 2015
- 09:00 AM
- 883 views
Gender inequality in science varies among disciplines
by SciELO in SciELO in Perspective
Certain disciplines have a lower percentage of women than others. A study published in Science puts forward the hypothesis that there are proportionately fewer women in fields where it is believed that brilliance and innate talent are required rather than hard work and dedication. The study, which looked at 1,820 researchers in institutions of higher education in the United States, showed an inverse relationship between the fields that value innate talent and the number of women represented in t........ Read more »
Leslie, S., Cimpian, A., Meyer, M., & Freeland, E. (2015) Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines. Science, 347(6219), 262-265. DOI: 10.1126/science.1261375
Penner, A. (2015) Gender inequality in science. Science, 347(6219), 234-235. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa3781
- November 2, 2014
- 06:08 PM
- 640 views
...How to Fix Science
by Viputheshwar Sitaraman in Draw Science
(Part 2/2) However, we can fix science. [Infographic]... Read more »
Alberts, B., Kirschner, M., Tilghman, S., & Varmus, H. (2014) Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(16), 5773-5777. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404402111
- November 2, 2014
- 06:32 AM
- 719 views
Research is Broken...
by Viputheshwar Sitaraman in Draw Science
(Part 1/2) The system of funding research is broken... [Infographic]... Read more »
Alberts, B., Kirschner, M., Tilghman, S., & Varmus, H. (2014) Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(16), 5773-5777. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404402111
- March 28, 2014
- 09:57 AM
- 1,385 views
Patching the Leaky Pipeline of Women in STEM
by amikulak in Daily Observations
March is designated Women’s History Month in the United States, recognizing “generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.” And yet, as we […]... Read more »
Valla, J., & Ceci, S. (2014) Breadth-Based Models of Women's Underrepresentation in STEM Fields: An Integrative Commentary on Schmidt (2011) and Nye et al. (2012). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(2), 219-224. DOI: 10.1177/1745691614522067
- September 10, 2013
- 04:39 AM
- 940 views
The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
by Björn Brembs in bjoern.brembs.blog
Rejection is one of the unpleasant but inevitable components of life. There are positive components to rejection: they build character, they force you to deal with negativity and sometimes they force you to change your life to avoid future rejections. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...... Read more »
Çağan H. Şekercioğlu. (2013) Citation opportunity cost of the high impact factor obsession. Current Biology, 23(17). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.065
- June 26, 2013
- 08:42 AM
- 1,016 views
Do blog posts correlate with a higher number of future citations?
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
Do blog posts correlate with a higher number of future citations? In many cases, yes, at least for Researchblogging.org (RB). Judit Bar-Ilan, Mike Thelwall and I already used RB, a science blogging aggregator for posts citing peer-reviewed research, in our previous article. RB has many advantages (if you read the previous article’s post, you can [...]... Read more »
Glanzel, W., & Schoepflin, U. (1995) A bibliometric study on ageing and reception processes of scientific literature. Journal of Information Science, 21(1), 37-53. DOI: 10.1177/016555159502100104
Shema H, Bar-Ilan J, & Thelwall M. (2012) Research blogs and the discussion of scholarly information. PloS one, 7(5). PMID: 22606239
- June 6, 2013
- 04:24 AM
- 895 views
More Money makes you Bad at Work: The Myth of Performance-Related Pay.
by Stuart Farrimond in Dr Stu's Science Blog
Motivated by money? I confess I am. Well ok, not always: there are plenty of things that will trump a stack of greenbacks. However, few of us would object to a kindly benefactor plopping a million quid into our current account. Even for the least materially-minded, it would be difficult to ignore such an offer: … Continue reading »... Read more »
ARIELY, D., GNEEZY, U., LOEWENSTEIN, G., & MAZAR, N. (2009) Large Stakes and Big Mistakes. Review of Economic Studies, 76(2), 451-469. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.00534.x
- January 8, 2013
- 11:37 AM
- 2,380 views
The USA Dream for IMGs: Coming to an end? Analysing the 2012 Match
by Pranab Chatterjee in Scepticemia
My attention was drawn to an article in the JAMA today (1) by one of my friends who is actively pursuing the USMLE route. And after reading this, I guess I have to admit that one now has to make haste in order to prevent waste. Now I have long been wanting to write about [...]... Read more »
Traverso G, & McMahon GT. (2012) Residency training and international medical graduates: coming to America no more. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 308(21), 2193-4. PMID: 23212494
- January 1, 2013
- 05:28 AM
- 1,133 views
What’s wrong with citation analysis?
by Hadas Shema in Information Culture
What’s wrong with citation analysis? Other than your papers not being cited enough, what’s wrong with measuring scientific influence based on citation count? Citation analysis-based decisions concerning grants, promotions, etc. have become popular because, among other things, they’re considered “unbiased.” After all, such analysis gives numbers even non-professionals can understand, helping them make the best [...]
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MacRoberts, M., & MacRoberts, B. (1996) Problems of citation analysis. Scientometrics, 36(3), 435-444. DOI: 10.1007/BF02129604
MacRoberts, M., & MacRoberts, B. (2010) Problems of citation analysis: A study of uncited and seldom-cited influences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 1-12. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21228
Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P., & Neylon, C. (2010) altmetrics: a manifesto. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/. info:/
- December 18, 2012
- 07:02 AM
- 987 views
How Long Should a Scientific Publication be?
by Richard Kunert in Brain's Idea
In one word: short. In two words: it depends. A neuroscience expert faces the challenge of 100 new neuroscience articles being published on a daily basis. S/he will never be able to read all that. So, what can be done to get your own publication known to the community? . 1) Know the reader and [...]... Read more »
Haslam, N. (2010) Bite-Size Science: Relative Impact of Short Article Formats. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(3), 263-264. DOI: 10.1177/1745691610369466
Ledgerwood, A., & Sherman, J. (2012) Short, Sweet, and Problematic? The Rise of the Short Report in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(1), 60-66. DOI: 10.1177/1745691611427304
Renear AH, & Palmer CL. (2009) Strategic reading, ontologies, and the future of scientific publishing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5942), 828-32. PMID: 19679805
Krzysztof Zbigniew Stanek. (2008) How long should an astronomical paper be to increase its Impact?. arXiv. arXiv: 0809.0692v1
- September 26, 2012
- 08:55 AM
- 819 views
Interview confidence
by David Winter in Careers - in Theory
A couple of months back someone asked a very interesting question on Careers Debate about how one expresses and demonstrates confidence in one’s area of expertise at an interview whilst avoiding self-aggrandisement. Is it just a question of body language and non-verbal communication, or are there other clues that you can give in the way that [...]... Read more »
Friedman RS, & Förster J. (2005) Effects of motivational cues on perceptual asymmetry: implications for creativity and analytical problem solving. Journal of personality and social psychology, 88(2), 263-75. PMID: 15841858
- September 22, 2012
- 05:00 PM
- 1,101 views
The power to see the future is exciting and terrifying
by Dan Mirman in Minding the Brain
In a recent comment in Nature, Daniel Acuna, Stefano Allesina, and Konrad Kording describe a statistical model for predicting h-index. In case you are not familiar with it, h-index is a citation-based measure of scientific impact. An h-index of n means that you have n publications with at least n citations. I only learned about h-index relatively recently and I think it is a quite elegant measure -- simple to compute, not too biased by a single highly-cited paper or by many low-im........ Read more »
Acuna, D.E., Allesina, Stefano, & Kording, Konrad P. (2012) Predicting scientific success. Nature, 489(7415), 201-202. DOI: 10.1038/489201a
Liu, Shi V. (2006) Top Journals’ Top Retraction Rates. Scientific Ethics, 1(2), 91-93. info:/
- September 14, 2012
- 06:14 AM
- 1,276 views
Four pathways to meaning
by David Winter in Careers - in Theory
Regular readers of this blog will know that a recurring theme is the notion of meaning in our working lives. I’m also a big fan of simple models and frameworks to help structure and analyse complex ideas. So, I was excited to discover an article which not only conducted an extensive review of the literature of [...]... Read more »
Rosso, B.D., Dekas, K.H., & Wrzesniewski, A. (2010) On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review. Research in Organizational Behavior, 91-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.riob.2010.09.001
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