While often large research teams are able to generate more impact, they struggle to reach top-tier journals, finds a new study from the University of Surrey that analyzed data from 1.4 million academic papers. The paper is ...
Economics & Business
May 10, 2023
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At an academic conference some years ago, Michèle Belot spoke with a participant who was convinced she had authored a research paper that wasn't hers. He'd confused her with another female scholar, an experience she said ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2023
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Imagine you have years-worth of research and it is dismissed by a 15-word rejection letter from a journal editor. That has happened to us.
Social Sciences
Sep 14, 2022
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A study of 2,329 academic journals has found that, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer manuscripts were submitted by women than by men, and this gender gap was especially prominent in the medical field and ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2021
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The shoots of plants get all of the glory, with their fruit and flowers and visible structure. But it's the portion that lies below the soil—the branching, reaching arms of roots and hairs pulling up water and nutrients—that ...
Biotechnology
Jul 30, 2021
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Call them the Brain Generation—the tens of thousands of college and graduate students working toward degrees in neuroscience, and the high school students who want to join them someday.
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2016
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An in-depth, authoritative assessment of women in university research has found that although there has been significant progress in the representation of women in the university research ranks, there are still gender equity ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2012
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Science Ph.D. students' interest in a faculty job wanes after they have spent more years in school, while other careers become more attractive, according to a study published May 2 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2012
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