Scientific publications

Women underrepresented in scientific publications

A new analysis of thousands of papers published between 2008 and 2012 shows that women are still underrepresented in authorship of scientific papers. Women account for less 30% of authorships, and articles with women as a dominant author receive fewer citations. The researchers also found that Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Quebec were the Canadian provinces […]

Science: Popular on Twitter

Scientists normally use the number of citations to rank the impact of a scientific paper, but can popularity on Twitter form another metric? Researchers looked at over 1.4 million peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2012 and determined how many times they were tweeted. They found that articles on health topics were tweeted the most, […]

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