Browsing Titles index "PLoS one"
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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 analyses of fractionalized ... -
Astrophysicists’ conversational connections on Twitter
(Public Library of Science, 2014-08-25)Because Twitter and other social media are increasingly used for analyses based on altmetrics, this research sought to understand what contexts, affordance use, and social activities influence the tweeting behavior of astrophysicists. Thus, the presented ... -
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 of Science, supporting large-scale ... -
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 information regarding the ... -
A community of curious souls : an analysis of commenting behavior on TED talks videos
(Public library of science, 2014-04-09)The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks website hosts video recordings of various experts, celebrities, academics, and others who discuss their topics of expertise. Funded by advertising and members but provided free online, TED Talks have ... -
Design and update of a classification system : the UCSD map of science
(2012-07-12)Global maps of science can be used as a reference system to chart career trajectories, the location of emerging research frontiers, or the expertise profiles of institutes or nations. This paper details data preparation, analysis, and layout performed when ... -
Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services
(Public library of science, 2013-05-28)Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either ... -
Do authors of research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research comply with its open access mandate? : A meta-epidemiologic study
(Public Library of Science, 2021-08-24)Since 2008, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has mandated that studies it funds either in whole or in part are required to publish their results as open access (OA) within 12 months of publication using either online repositories and/or ... -
The effects of aging on researchers’ publication and citation patterns
(Public library of science, 2008-03-29)The average age at which U.S. researchers receive their first grant from NIH has increased from 34.3 in 1970, to 41.7 in 2004. These data raise the crucial question of the effects of aging on the scientific productivity and impact of researchers. ... -
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 evaluation at U.S. universities. ... -
Follow the leader : on the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations
(Public library of science, 2019-06-20)National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global ... -
From art to science : a bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015
(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-03)According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach. Using data derived from Ulrich’s Periodical Directory and Clarivate ... -
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 individual researchers’ scientific ... -
Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact
(Public library of science, 2015-03-30)Scholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might speak a different scientific ... -
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 of these factors has inspired ... -
National differences in dissemination and use of open access literature
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-09)Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to the implementation of several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well as the development of several new platforms that facilitate the publication ... -
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 of scientific output published ... -
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 which help underpin the ... -
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 “quality,” because these might ... -
The rise of the middle author : investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship
(Public library of science, 2017-09-14)Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently, an increasingly large number of individuals are being listed as authors in the bylines, which complicates the proper attribution of credit and responsibility to ...
