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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Hamid R. Jamali, Alireza Abbasi
Summary: Despite improvements, gender inequality still exists in Australian science. To study this issue, researchers analyzed Australian first authored articles published from 2010 to 2020. The analysis showed an increasing ratio of female to male first authored articles, except in information and computing sciences. Females also had a citation advantage in certain fields, such as mathematical sciences and chemical sciences.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gemma Conroy
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Benjamin Davies, Jason Gush, Shaun C. Hendy, Adam B. Jaffe
Summary: In this study, we analyzed whether research funding contests could promote co-authorship. We found that among pairs who had co-proposed in the previous ten years, co-authorship was 13.8 percentage points more likely in a given year. However, the co-authorship rate was not significantly higher among funded pairs. Yet, when we increased the publication lags towards the length of a typical award, we found that funding, rather than participation, promoted co-authorship.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yu-Wei Chang, Dar-Zen Chen, Mu-Hsuan Huang
Summary: The study found that most award-winning scientists were not prolific researchers and lacked influence, indicating that scientific and technological contributions do not necessarily correspond with influential scientific publications and patents. Only a few scientists filed for patents before publishing, investing more time developing technological inventions, while most recipients were science- or technology-oriented.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Klaus Wohlrabe, Lutz Bornmann
Summary: This article revisits a previous study and finds that the alphabetization rate in economics has declined, and there is no significant relationship between alphabetized co-authorship and citations. However, alphabetization may increase citation rates in high-impact journals, and the likelihood of non-alphabetized co-authorship increases with the number of authors.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brooks Hanson, Shelley Stall, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Kristina Vrouwenvelder, Christopher Wirz, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, Ge Peng
Summary: AI tools are transforming data-driven science, but better ethical standards and data management are needed to support its growth and prevent issues.
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Mike Thelwall
Summary: This article investigates the impact of main authors or co-authors on research quality. The data suggests that first author citation impact is more important than co-author citation impact, but co-author productivity is more important than first author productivity. Furthermore, author citation impact is more important than author productivity. The results show that impactful team members are more important than productive team members.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Claudi Bockting, Eva A. M. van Dis, Johan Bollen, Robert van Rooij, Willem L. Zuidema
Summary: Conversational AI is a transformative change for the field of science, and it requires a thoughtful response.
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Peyman Khezr, Vijay Mohan
Summary: This paper examines authorship misconduct, describes various forms of misconduct, and proposes a simple model to explore the strategic interaction between guest authors and research teams. It also investigates the possibility of using a monitoring-punishment approach to eliminate free-riding equilibria. The paper highlights the importance of efficiency and ethics in research and introduces recent advances in distributed ledger technology and authorship forensics for monitoring research workflows.
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Biology
Sara E. Campbell, Daniel Simberloff
Summary: This analysis found gender differences in the field of invasion science. Women are significantly underrepresented in terms of the number of publications, collaboration, and research impact. Despite improvements, women still lack representation as first authors and single authors. The study also found that women collaborate with fewer coauthors and are cited less frequently.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Carrie Arnold
Summary: Numerous companies offer remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments 24/7.
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Ethics
Gert Helgesson, Zubin Master, William Bulow
Summary: This study explores the ethical issue of academic authorship, specifically focusing on situations where researchers make significant contributions to a project but are not credited in the final manuscript. The authors argue that the concept of "substantial contribution" in the ICMJE authorship criteria is ambiguous and suggest that recognition should be given to contributions made throughout the research process, not just what ends up in the paper. The study concludes that guidance should be provided on authorship attribution in cases where researchers contribute significantly to the research process leading up to a specific paper but are ultimately excluded.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS
(2021)
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Ahsan Ullah, Kanwal Ameen
Summary: The research found that the annual growth rate of research articles published by Pakistani authors remained between 8% and 9% from 2004 to 2016. Female research authors had a slightly higher average publication rate than male research authors. Collaboration among authors increased sevenfold from 2009 to 2016.
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Political Science
Bree Bang Jensen, Bernadette Bresee, Sarah K. Dreier, Ramin Farrokhi, Emily K. Gade, Willa Jeffers, Marcella H. Morris, Charitra S. Pabbaraju, Kayla Salehian, Ava Sharifi, Arica Schuett, Chonlawit Sirikupt, Emily Thomas, Danielle Villa
Summary: This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning, as well as to attenuate patterns of historical exclusion. By leveraging evidence-based best practices from experiential education, team-based workflows, servant leadership, and whole-person-style mentorship models, this approach advances faculty research goals, supports student learning beyond traditional coursework, and disrupts patterns of historical exclusion. Qualitative evidence is provided to support the model, and the hurdles and challenges to be overcome are discussed.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicki Lisa Cole, Stefan Reichmann, Tony Ross-Hellauer
Summary: Open Research is intended to make research more accessible, transparent, reproducible, shared, and collaborative. However, evidence shows that its implementation undermines equity. To address this, a diverse group of researchers, research managers, and funders co-created actionable recommendations to support equitable implementation. Using a co-creative modified Delphi method, they generated consensus-driven recommendations that tackle resource-intensive nature, high costs, and obstructive reward practices. This paper provides an overview of the issues, details the co-creative process, presents the recommendations and debates, and emphasizes the need for a global and inclusive approach.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2023)
