Background Scientific productivity is often evaluated by means of cumulative citation metrics.
Different metrics produce different incentives. The H-index assigns full credit from a citation …

Background: A urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common types of infections
affecting the urinary tract. When bacteria enter the bladder or kidney and multiply in the …

Recent times have seen the growth in the number and scope of interacting professional
reform movements in science, centered on themes such as open research, research …

Objectives To investigate scientific collaboration and citation metrics of reporting guidelines
for health research. Study Design and Setting A cross-sectional analysis of published …

In the field of organismal biology, as in much of academia, there is a strong incentive to
publish in internationally recognized, highly regarded, English-language journals to promote …

This literature review aims to examine the approach given to open science policy in the
different studies. The main findings are that the approach given to open science has different …

Background The torrent of research during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has
exposed the persistent challenges with reporting trials, open science practices, and …

The mission of academic excellence has resulted in a science system that incentivises
publications within high impact, often basic science journals, and less in application …

Background In prior research, we identified and prioritized ten measures to assess research
performance that comply with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, a …

The ever increasing emphasis on complex reporting guidelines is getting in the way of
designing and conducting good clinical trials, say Jeremy Howick, Rebecca Webster, and J …