News tagged with peers
Probe into faked studies rocks medical community
A trail-blazing anesthesiologist, whose research shaped pain-relief for millions around the world, has been fabricating data for more than a decade, a hospital where he once practiced claimed Saturday.
Mar 15, 2009 |
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Climate study gets pulled over plagiarism
Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming.
May 17, 2011 |
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Tiny, implantable medical device can propel itself through bloodstream
Someday, your doctor may turn to you and say, "Take two surgeons and call me in the morning." If that day arrives, you may just have Ada Poon to thank.
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Victims of bullying suffer academically as well, psychologists report
Students who are bullied regularly do substantially worse in school, UCLA psychologists report in a special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence devoted to academic performance and peer relationships.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 20, 2010 |
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Information sharing interferes with 'wisdom of crowds': study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A statistical phenomenon, called the Wisdom of Crowds, happens when a group of individuals make guesses and the average of the guesses reveal accurate average answers. However, researchers ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 17, 2011 |
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Libel case against the scientific journal Nature begins
(PhysOrg.com) -- The British science journal Nature, which publishes both purely academic papers and editorial pieces, is being sued in a British court by a former editor of the theoretical physics journal Chaos, ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Another Higgs rumor reminds us how science is correctly done
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the Large Hadron Collidor (LHC) running smoothly for well over a year now, the excitement surrounding the possibility for the discovery of new physics has generated a few rumors - speculations ...
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Peer pressure plays major role in environmental behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- People are more likely to enroll in conservation programs if their neighbors do -- a tendency that should be exploited when it comes to protecting the environment, according to results of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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American Physical Society announces Physical Review X
APS announces Physical Review X (PRX), an online, open access, primary research journal for authors in all fields of physics.
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Sharing in sorrow might make us happier, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scrolling through Facebook or mingling at a party, you might get the impression that other people's lives are full of job promotions, exotic travel and successful relationships. We don't often ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Study shows males are more tolerant of same-sex peers
Women have traditionally been viewed as being more social and cooperative than men. However, there is recent evidence that this may not be the case. In fact, studies have shown that men maintain larger social networks with ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 11, 2009 |
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A re-review of peer review: Leading journal looks to end the 'review nightmare'
Every scientific researcher has asked themselves the question at some stage in their professional career: Why has the paper I submitted to be peer reviewed disappeared into the ether?
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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Ten-fold increase in Open Access publishing during the last decade
Since the World Wide Web emerged in the mid 1990s scientists have dreamed of having the whole body of scientific peer reviewed literature freely available on the web, openly available without any hindrance. In the "Open Access" ...
Jun 13, 2011 |
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Counteracting teens' logo lust: Supportive parents can reduce materialism in teens
Today's adolescents have been characterized as the most materialistic generation in history: a brand-oriented and consumer-involved group who derive self-worth from owning luxury handbags and the latest technology devices.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Science fraud: Journal urges China to show 'integrity'
Leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday urged China to tighten measures against scientific fraud after dozens of papers written by two teams of Chinese chemists were found to be faked.
Jan 07, 2010 |
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