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Avaliação e gestão de ciência e tecnologia: Estado e coletividade científica
The conclusion of an extensive research project about a decadelong period of science and technology policies in Brazil (Baumgarten, 2003) has led to a reflection on issues that are relevant to understand the processes of production and dissemination of ...
Maíra Baumgarten
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Journal hijacking: A new challenge for medical scientific community
Researchers and scientific communities have encountered a horrible event named journal hijacking. In this paper, we present the unethical and criminal practices of journal hijacking. A hijacked journal is a legitimate scientific journal that offers print-
Jafar Kolahi, Saber Khazaei
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Communicating scientific uncertainty [PDF]
All science has uncertainty. Unless that uncertainty is communicated effectively, decision makers may put too much or too little faith in it. The information that needs to be communicated depends on the decisions that people face. Are they (i) looking for a signal (e.g., whether to evacuate before a hurricane), (ii) choosing among fixed options (e.g ...
Baruch, Fischhoff, Alex L, Davis
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Recommendations for repositories and scientific gateways from a neuroscience perspective [PDF]
Digital services such as repositories and science gateways have become key resources for the neuroscience community, but users often have a hard time orienting themselves in the service landscape to find the best fit for their particular needs.
Tiesinga, Paul, +21 more
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Economics of scientific communication [PDF]
In last two years the mainline journal has grown rapidly to accommodate changes in its content, layout, and quality, readership which has led to its indexing in EBSCO, CAS, Ulrich Web directory, BASE, DOAJ, Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, ProQuest, Research Gate, Open J Gate, Georgetown library and Genamics JournalSeek.
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The Scientific Community Metaphor [PDF]
Scientific communities have proven to be extremely successful at solving problems. They are inherently parallel systems and their macroscopic nature makes them amenable to careful study. In this paper the character of scientific research is examined drawing on sources in the philosophy and history of science.
William A. Kornfeld, Carl Hewitt
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Challenges for ‘Community’ in Science and Values
Philosophers of science often make reference — whether tacitly or explicitly — to the notion of a scientific community. Sometimes, such references are useful to make our object of analysis tractable in the philosophy of science.
Charles H. Pence, Daniel J. Hicks
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Failed replications can jeopardize public trust in psychological science and recent findings cast doubt on the idea that self-corrections and reforms can rebuild this trust. These findings are in contrast to trust repair research that proposes changes in
Nicole Methner +2 more
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A firm scientific community [PDF]
The diffusion of scientific knowledge to industry is instrumental to technological change and productivity growth.
Baruffaldi, S., Poege, F.
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Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientist in environmental science and ecology [PDF]
In science, a relatively small pool of researchers garners a disproportionally large number of citations. Still, very little is known about the social characteristics of highly cited scientists.
Lortie, C. +9 more
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