Recommendation Systems and the Importance of Effective Information
Author: Antonio Perez During the past few years, with the explosion of information being served as online media content, eCommerce, and streaming platforms, finding and accessing desired information in an optimal way has become crucial for many companies and research centers. With multiple platform players constantly competing for users’ attention, the actionable information provided by […]
Read more‘In shaping the UK’s post-Brexit research and development landscape, the devil is in the detail’
Author: Matthew Dovey About a year ago, when countries across Europe entered lockdown, a dedicated European COVID-19 data platform was launched. The platform enables the rapid collection and sharing of research data from different sources for the European and global research communities. It also allows researchers to openly share and analyse data in a secure […]
Read moreClimate Responsibilities of Scholarly Publishing
Author: HASEEB IRFANULLAH In addition to societal challenges like inequity in multiple dimensions, the world is alarmingly facing climate change, recently dubbed as global “climate emergency” and “climate crisis”. Our current knowledge on human-induced climate change, predicted future scenarios, and our plan to address the crisis are essentially based upon peer-reviewed research on climate change […]
Read moreA self-correcting fallacy – Why don’t researchers correct their own errors in the scientific record?
Author: Julia Rohrer Correcting mistakes in light of new data and updating findings to reflect this is often considered to be a key characteristic of scientific research. Commenting on the ‘Loss-of-Confidence Project’, a study into self-correction amongst psychologists, Julia M. Rohrer, suggests that in practice self-correction of published research is, infrequent, difficult to achieve and […]
Read moreGuest Post – An Early Look at the Impact of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Journals Warning List
Author: CHRISTOS PETROU At the end of 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued their first “Early Warning List of International Journals”. While it includes just 65 journals, the list disproportionately targets journals that are fully open access (OA) and attract a high volume of Chinese content in absolute or relative terms, notably IEEE Access, […]
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