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When is it acceptable to use AI in academic publishing?
Scholars have long measured the impact of a paper by counting the number of times other scientific articles cite it. Researchers have just detected a new kind of citation fraud.
The Nobel Prize categories were set up more than a century ago. Since then, science has grown and evolved in unpredictable ways.
In 2014, Chinese researchers published more papers than any other country for the first time. In 2019, China overtook the U.S. as the No. 1 publisher of the most influential papers.
Blogs can be useful sources of data for the urban planning research community if the researchers know how to assess them critically.
A very low percentage of women are leaders in the field of finance. Gender equity will benefit both scholarship and Australia’s third-largest economic sector.
The movement to change the way researchers are measured should undoubtedly be embraced.
The h-index has become an indicator of quality for many researchers and may influence the allocation of research funds. But some question its value.
The gravitational pull of global rankings consumes university energy and attention. But there had to be a better way to measure their value.
The desire of scholars and universities in Africa to fit into a model imposed from elsewhere may hinder development in Africa.
Peer review is a crucial part of the academic publication system. It is also a critical part of the hiring and evaluation process. What’s the problem with peer review?
How flawed citation practices can perpetuate scientific ideas even before they’ve been fully established as true.
Scholars have long encountered skeletons in the academic closets of peers and intellectual heroes. But is there a point where a scholar’s behaviour is so taboo that their research should be consigned to the academic junk pile?
The traditional starting point for considering the scientific impact of research are its citations. But judging which research applications should be funded is a very inexact science.
The term “bubble” is now part of everyday conversation, particularly since the financial crisis of 2008. But bubbles are not just a problem in the world of banking. They can affect the choices you make…
“Publish or perish” is a well-known maxim within academia. It is introduced to researchers early in their careers, often by a PhD supervisor, keen for his or her students to start building a career. While…
Science is a highly competitive business so measuring the impact of scientific research, meaningfully and objectively, is essential. The journal impact factor (JIF) has emerged over the past few decades…
One in five academics from a range of fields say they have come under pressure from journals to pad out their papers with unnecessary citations to get published, a large survey has found. Analysis of 6,672…
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