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Designing measures of complex collaborations with participatory, evidence-centered design

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

An increasingly popular form of collaboration involves forming partnerships among researchers, educators, and community members to improve or transform education systems through research inquiry. However, not all partnerships are successful. The field needs valid, reliable, and useful measures to help with assessing progress toward partnership goal...

Patent data-driven analysis of literature associations with changing innovation trends

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Patents are essential for transferring scientific discoveries to meaningful products that benefit societies. While the academic community focuses on the number of citations to rank scholarly works according to their “scientific merit,” the number of citations is unrelated to the relevance for patentable innovation. To explore associations between p...

Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowle...

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

This commentary documents how federal funding agencies are changing the criteria by which they distribute taxpayer money intended for scientific research. Increasingly, STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) funding agencies are requiring applicants for funding to include a plan to advance DEI (“Diversity, Equity, and I...

The H-index is an unreliable research metric for evaluating the publication impact of experimental scientists

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

The Method of Everything vs. Experimenter Bias of Loophole-Free Bell Experiments

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Experimenter bias compromises the integrity and advancement of science, especially when awarded as such. For example, the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for the loophole-free experiments that tested physicist John S. Bell's inequality theorem. These experiments employed the logic of conducting local experiments to obtain local evidence that co...

Addressing researcher fraud: retrospective, real-time, and preventive strategies–including legal points and data managem...

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Researcher fraud is often easy and enticing in academic research, with little risk of detection. Cases of extensive fraud continue to occur. The amount of fraud that goes undetected is unknown and may be substantial. Three strategies for addressing researcher fraud are (a) retrospective investigations after allegations of fraud have been made, (b) ...

Technical-scientific production and knowledge networks about medicinal plants and herbal medicines in the Amazon

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

Introduction This paper explores the role of Brazilian research institutions in the global and national context of study of medicinal plants. Most of these plants have ethnopharmacological use and herbal medicines related to the Amazon. It highlights Brazil's position in scientific production and the importance of Amazonian resources in developing ...

Pedagogical implications of pragmatic HRM research

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

This chapter examines the interplay between human resource management theory and human resource management practice. It advocates that effective human resource management practice and theory are intrinsically intertwined, and this indispensable link ought to be central to the pedagogy of management research methods. Through greater embeddedness of ...

The needed link between open science and science diplomacy—A Latin American perspective

Published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

The relevance of science diplomacy and open science in today's world is undeniable. Science diplomacy enables countries to jointly address pressing global challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and food security. Open science, promoting accessible and transparent research, plays a pivotal role in this context. Nevertheless, the degree of op...

Bringing rigor in contextual objectivity: lessons from applying feminist lens in scoping the evidence on girlhood studie...

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This perspective paper contemplates the nuances of engaging with literature ethically in conducting a scoping review based on the researchers' project on girlhood studies in Indonesia. We assert that the ethical perspective extends beyond conventional primary data collection from human participants, further emphasizing the essence of a feminist met...