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Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty
(Public Library of Science, 2020-06-03)
Tenure-track faculty members in the United States are evaluated on their performance in
both research and teaching. In spite of accusations of bias and invalidity, student evaluations of teaching have dominated teaching ...
Misconduct and misbehavior related to authorship disagreements in collaborative science
(Springer, 2019-06-03)
Scientific authorship serves to identify and acknowledge individuals who “contribute significantly” to published research. However, specific authorship norms and practices often differ within and across disciplines, labs, ...
Researchers’ perceptions of ethical authorship distribution in collaborative research teams
(Springer, 2020-08)
Authorship is commonly used as the basis for the measurement of research productivity. It influences career progression and rewards, making it a valued commodity in a competitive scientific environment. To better understand ...
An analysis of direct reciprocal borrowing among Québec university libraries
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-03-21)
An analysis of Quebec academic libraries’ direct reciprocal borrow- ´
ing statistics from 2005 to 2010 reveals that the physical distance
separating universities plays an important role in determining the
amount of ...
Exploring the interdisciplinarity patterns of highly cited papers
(Elsevier, 2020-12-31)
This study explores the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the citation impact of highly cited papers. In this paper, interdisciplinarity is investigated by comparing the dimensions of disciplinary diversity ...
Task specialization across research careers
(eLife Sciences Publications, 2020-10-28)
Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if they are successful, ends with the ...
Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
(MIT Press, 2020)
Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide
more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a
decade of idiosyncratic ...
Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)
Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific
community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in
the biomedical field, and scientific ...
PhD students’ excellence scholarships and their relationship with research productivity, scientific impact, and degree completion
(Canadian society for the study of higher education, 2013-08-31)
This paper examines the relationship between excellence scholarships and research productivity,
scientific impact, and degree completion. Drawing on the entire population of doctoral students
in the province of Québec, ...
The KRESCENT Program (2005-2015) : an evaluation of the state of Kidney Research Training in Canada
(SAGE, 2017)
Background: The Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) Program was launched
in 2005 to enhance kidney research capacity in Canada and foster knowledge translation across the 4 themes of ...