Editorial: Quality and quantity in research assessment: Examining the merits of metrics. [PDF]
Montazerian M, Dorch BF.
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Libraries and the REF: how do librarians contribute to research excellence?
Librarians support research in a wide variety of ways. However, librarians may not always receive recognition for the valuable contributions they make to the research life cycle or research environments.
Dominic Walker
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Harris County Winter Storm Uri Resilience Assessment in Harris County
This report provides a geographic analysis of damage caused by Winter Storm Uri and highlights the unmet needs it uncovered. Additionally, researchers analyzed the damage from three disaster events—Winter Storm Uri, COVID-19 and Hurricane Harvey—to ...
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
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Scholarly organizations bring together experts to move forward specific areas of scientific endeavor. More than 5,000 scholarly societies exist world-wide yet little is known about the composition, evolution, and collaboration of experts within these ...
Zorina S. Galis +4 more
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Changing how we evaluate research is difficult, but not impossible
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was published in 2013 and described how funding agencies, institutions, publishers, organizations that supply metrics, and individual researchers could better evaluate the outputs of scientific ...
Anna Hatch, Stephen Curry
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Implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing
From July 2021 eLife will only review manuscripts already published as preprints, and will focus its editorial process on producing public reviews to be posted alongside the preprints.
Michael B Eisen +5 more
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Report on Methodological Quality Assessment of Primary Care and General Practice Research in China in 2021: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Section [PDF]
Background General practice has significant interdisciplinary characteristics, both qualitative research and mixed methods research are applicable to scientific research in this field.
Quality Assessment Group for Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research of Chinese General Practice
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New Challenges in Scientific Publications: Referencing, Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in scientific publications, some of which have bypassed the usual peer-review processes, leading to an increase in unsupported claims being referenced.
Švab Igor +2 more
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Report on Methodological Quality Assessment of Primary Care and General Practice Research in China in 2021: Quantitative Research, Systematic Review and Guidelines/Consensus Section [PDF]
Background At a time when healthcare reforms are being implemented in the new era, the scientific research output in the field of general practice and primary care in China has grown rapidly in recent years.
Quality Assessment Group for Quantitative Research, Systematic Review and Guidelines/Consensus of Chinese General Practice
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The failures of a bibliometric research assessment system can be dismissed as "anecdotal" evidences only by assuming that research yields fungible "products" that can be replaced, if flawed, by identical copies.
Maria Chiara Pievatolo
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