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On the compliance of women engineers with a gendered scientific system
(Public library of science, 2015-12-30)
There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of
women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical
research on gender disparities in engineering ...
Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers : the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns
(Public library of science, 2015-03-17)
A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research impact. Despite
their current popularity, there is a lack of ...
Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing : the case of global health research
(PeerJ, 2018-02-19)
Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research,
we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes.
Traditionally, the focus on inequality in scientific ...
The state of OA : a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
(PeerJ, 2018-02-13)
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet
need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and
characteristics of OA. We address this need ...
The academic advantage : gender disparities in patenting
(Public library of science, 2015-05-27)
We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United
States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO). Our ...
Researchers’ individual publication rate has not increased in a century
(Public library of science, 2016-03-09)
Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia
for at least half a century. Growing concerns, in particular, are expressed for policies that
reward “quantity” at the expense of ...
The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era
(Public Library of Science, 2015-06-10)
The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate
within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high
profit margins. However, the share ...
Misconduct policies, academic culture and career stage, not gender or pressures to publish, affect scientific integrity
(Public library of science, 2015-06-17)
The honesty and integrity of scientists is widely believed to be threatened by pressures to
publish, unsupportive research environments, and other structural, sociological and psychological factors. Belief in the importance ...
Beyond funding : acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences
(Public library of science, 2017-10-04)
For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces
of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding
acknowledgments have been indexed by Web ...
Scientific mobility indicators in practice : international mobility profiles at the country level
Indicadores de movilidad científica en acción : Perfiles de movilidad internacional a nivel de país
(2018)
This paper presents and describes the methodological opportunities offered by bibliometric data
to produce indicators of scientific mobility. Large bibliographic datasets of disambiguated
authors and their affiliations ...