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Science and Society need more interaction instead of mere communication. An Interview with Volker Meyer-Guckel
In this interview Teresa Völker speaks with Dr. Volker Meyer-Guckel about challenges and possible futures of science communication.
Populism, Science and Public Discourse: An Interview with Niels Mede
Niels Mede on how the rise of populist politics affects academic work, science communication practices of scholars engaging in public discourse and ways to address these challenges.
Gender Disparity in Science
Bao & Huang on gender biases in Chinese scientific committees, calling for policy reforms in academia.
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How we overestimate Twitter
Twitter is a centerpiece of modern public communication. But the question must be asked: Is Twitter worth all that attention?
Prestige and inequality in the ivory tower
Do we have an inequality problem in academia? – Crossposting from ScienceMetrics
Revolution in science
Open Science advocate Shakib Wassey tells how a digital platform for open scientific publication and interactive evaluation could change scientific publishing.
Data sharing and information literacy
Promoting data sharing by improving data information literacy in German academic libraries
Authorship revised
Do you want a piece of the cake? Making a compromise between 2.1 and 1.268
Putting data before the carrot
Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.
Multidisciplinary science – multiple authors?
Bibliometrics for the 20 highest performing authors in Multidisciplinary Science.
What is impact?
3 questions to Jeremy M. Berg about the future of scholarly publishing.
Authorship in mathematics
The 20 highest performing authors in Mathematics publish third most articles but have comparably low bibliometrics.
Chemically linked authors
Bibliometrics for the subject areas Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, as well as Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Pharmaceutics for the 20 highest performing authors
The Arts and the authorship
Bibliometrics for the subject areas Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences for the 20 highest performing authors.
11000111 authors
Bibliometrics for the subject areas Computer Science and Decision Sciences for the 20 highest performing authors.
Taking care of people – and authorship
Bibliometrics for the subject areas Dentistry, Health Professions, Nursing, and Psychology for the 20 highest performing authors.
Small organisms, high citation rates
On average, Immunology and Microbiology, Neuroscience as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology have the highest citation rates.
Earth, Environment, and authors
Bibliometrics of the 20 highest performing authors in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Sciences.
Old MacDonald had coauthors
Bibliometrics of the 20 highest performing authors in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Veterinary Science.
Authorship in business and economy
Bibliometrics of the 20 highest performing authors in Business, Management, and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.
Authorship in engineering
Bibliometrics of the 20 highest performing authors in Energy, Engineering, and Materials Science.
Doctor coauthor
The 20 highest performing authors in Medicine published more than 7700 articles in seven years.
Factory science
How many authors does it really need to write a paper?
How to analyse authorship
Methodology for analysing the number of authors per article using meta data from Scopus.
Et alia mille
On average, the 20 highest performing authors in Physics and Astronomy have more than 1200 coauthors per article.
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