Over the past few years a vast range of cloud-based scholarly communication tools have been added to the researcher's toolkit. The timeline developed by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer at Utrecht ...
Read ItScientists, institutions and journals have been increasingly evaluated statistically, by metrics that focus on the number of published reports rather than on their content, raising a concern that ...
Read ItWe are, as a culture, obsessed with counting things. From the number of "likes" and "followers" we have to the number of "retweets" and "shares" we get. It's how we measure our popularity and in ...
Read ItIn their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
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