News tagged with research paper

Could cap and trade for water solve problems facing the United States' largest rivers?

Lake Mead, on the Colorado River, is the largest reservoir in the United States, but users are consuming more water than flows down the river in an average year, which threatens the water supply for agriculture and households. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new visualization method makes research more organized and efficient

The National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded Action Science Explorer (ASE) allows users to simultaneously search through thousands of academic papers, using a visualization method that determines how papers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online communication boosts lying and E-mail is the medium that contains the most lies: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers finds that communication using computers for instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face conversations, and that e-mail ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows

Scientific research may be in decline across the globe because of growing pressures to report only positive results, new analysis suggests.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ranking research

A new approach to evaluating research papers exploits social bookmarking tools to extract relevance. Details are reported in the latest issue of the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions.

Other Sciences / Other

created May 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China set to outstrip US in science research output

China has shot to second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines and in a few years will take the top spot from the United States, according to a new report. ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

China rockets to second in science publications (Update)

China has rocketed into second place in the number of articles published in international science magazines, according to a report released Monday by the Royal Society in London.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 13

Web of international collaboration boosts worldwide nanotechnology research

Despite their initial focus on national economic competitiveness, the nanotechnology research initiatives now funded by more than 60 countries have become increasingly collaborative, with nearly a quarter of all papers co-authored ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

US scientists significantly more likely to publish fake research

US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 46 | with audio podcast

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.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4