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Science of a Local Cultural Phenomenon
In this paper, I reported three experiments to demonstrate that people who viewed pictures of kittens and puppies, as compared to those who viewed pictures of adult animals, perform better ...
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The Grain
The Grain aims to tell the story behind research that’s made an immense impact on science. Inspired by the former series Citation Classics, The Grain features essays by authors with publications that have one thousand citations or more or a very high Altmetric score (the top 250). Read more
These essays should provide a brief background on the research itself and describe how it was conceived and undertaken. The Winnower wants authors to describe the story behind the research.
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The Peters & Ceci Study of Journal Publications
How the project was initiated. In 1978, one of us (SJC) was a newly hired assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Dakota, and the other one us (DPP) was in his fourt...
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Analysis of DNA Sequence Polymorphisms with DnaSP
The paper describes the version 4 of the DnaSP (DNA Sequence Polymorphism) software, a bioinformatics tool used to analyze and interpret DNA sequence polymorphism data (Rozas et al. 2003)...
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An Unemployed Gentleman Scholar
First off I should say that my career path was not planned or plannable, so you can't follow in my footsteps except to go where there is no path. From a young age (7 years old), my vocatio...
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Research on Climate Consensus Provokes Strong Reactions
In 2004, Naomi Oreskes published a paper in Science investigating the level of agreement in the peer-reviewed literature on climate change (Oreskes 2004). Among the 928 'global climate cha...
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The Chaff aims to tell the story behind research that was retracted. In essays published in The Chaff, authors explain what went wrong with the work. Read more
Was it an innocent mistake or did someone commit fraud? What ultimately lead to the retraction of the paper and how can we learn from these faults?
We want to explicitly state that this series is not a forum for the shaming of authors, or a "shame list." The Chaff provides an opportunity for authors of retracted papers to tell their side of the story and to elaborate on retraction notices that are, by and large, quite uninformative.