Brevity is not the secret to scientific success. Researchers could garner more citations simply by making their papers longer, a study seems to imply. In an analysis of 30,027 peer-reviewed papers ...

The influence of academic papers is quantified by the number of citations, which is the number of times a paper is cited by other papers. The scientific journal Nature has pointed out that 'Japanese ...

Citation counts feel like scientific success, but the evidence shows they mislead more than they inform. Here’s what actually ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Footnotes and bibliographies lend authority to scholarly work and enable the reader to locate sources. This paper assesses how undergraduate ...

They’re not the kind of gangs that smuggle drugs and murder people. But people looking closely at the scientific literature have discovered that a small number of scientists are part of a different ...

A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than women to back up their arguments with appeals to a higher authority: themselves. When an academic writes a research paper, it is ...