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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How many is too many? : on the relationship between research productivity and impact
(Public library of science, 2016-09-28)
Over the last few decades, the institutionalisation of quantitative research evaluations has
created incentives for scholars to publish as many papers as possible. This paper assesses
the effects of such incentives on ...
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 ...
La redocumentarisation, un défi pour les sciences de l’information
(2007)
Les sciences de l’information, construites sur la base d’un processus de documentarisation démarré à la fin du XIXème siècle, sont avec le numérique confrontées à la nécessité de se renouveler. Le mouvement actuel s’apparente ...
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 ...
Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)
This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and
scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses,
and number of countries) ...