Gender Inequities in Mentoring May Disproportionately Affect Women Researchers
New study dives into one facet of academic gender disparities in the life sciences
Academic Articles
The Disappearance of Women Researchers in Times of Pandemic
During the pandemic, women researchers submitted less research for publication than their male counterparts did
Three Ways to Improve Scholarly Writing to Get More Citations
New paper suggests that such research gets lost in abstract, technical, and passive prose
Google Scholar Shows Bias Against Non-English Papers
Research analyzing academic searches reveals non-English papers rarely make top 900 results
Research Analyzes Academic Abstracts Written by Students
Although there are studies on scientific abstracts written by experts, few deal with student productions
Cleaning, Tagging, and Structuring Life Science Data
Traditional life science search tools don’t perform the difficult but necessary intelligence work of analyzing, aggregating, and structuring data in research papers
Study Suggests Academic Press Releases May Exaggerate Health Research Claims
A recent study published in the BMJ came to the conclusion that, "exaggeration in news is strongly associated with exaggeration in [academic] press releases."
Enabling Time Travel for the Scholarly Web
An international team of information scientists has begun a study to investigate how web links in scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources being referenced.