Universities' value judgements about research are becoming 'coupled' to social media platforms as they compete for funding by demonstrating their influence beyond academia, an analysis suggests.
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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87
Although many Americans favor expanding background checks for gun purchases, gun-control measures in Congress have failed to garner enough votes to pass. In contrast, some state legislatures have enacted measures to reduce ...
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2021
2
154
Within minutes of Melbourne being rattled by yesterday's earthquake, my Victorian friends reported changes in the behavior of their animals.
Veterinary medicine
Sep 23, 2021
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38
h-index, g-index, i10 index, m-quotient, Journal Impact Factor, Altmetrics … it's long been an intractable issue plaguing the research community—how to assess the relative merits of research objectively across disciplines ...
Education
Sep 10, 2021
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261
A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely common on Earth, suggests the existence of a substantial water reservoir on Mars, according ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 29, 2021
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Researchers from University of Arizona and University of Utah published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines why most scholarly research is misinterpreted by the public or never escapes the ivory tower and ...
Economics & Business
May 1, 2021
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29
Companies that manufacture or sell products are often constrained by the amount of resources they can dedicate to one product. Many companies enact a strategy known as product proliferation, where one product is given many ...
Economics & Business
Apr 20, 2021
1
0
A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves, use to know where and when to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2021
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5
The killings of African Americans at the hands of police officers has continued unabated in the United States. In the past year, the deaths of Breonna Taylor in her bed and George Floyd by public asphyxiation are two of the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2021
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38
An international team of analysts reports evidence that suggests it is not likely that the peer review process is to blame for gender publishing inequalities in scholarly journals. In their paper published in the journal ...
