Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Alyssa Jeffrey, a first year master’s student in the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and a research assistant at the ScholCommLab.

A recent item in Nature News reports “Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database” , sub-headed “[…] the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is infiltrating literature.” A year before, a group of leading scholars and publishers already warned in a comment in Nature, "So far, disparate attempts to address predatory publishing have been unable to control this ever-multiplying problem.

Every 28th of the month, we release a new version of Hypergraph — we just released Hypergraph (Beta) v0.10.0 🎉 (if you already have it installed, it'll auto-update next time you run it). Below, you can find a detailed and human-readable version of everything that's changed since last months release (v0.9.0).Added Markdown rendering in Hypergraph (includes equation rendering, table rendering) — main files that are markdown files will now be

One of the many puzzles of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the extent to which children are vulnerable to and spreaders of the virus. Fewer infection rates have been reported in children compared with adults, as have milder symptoms. But the infection rate in children is biased, given the testing policies in many countries.

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today, we’re highlighting Lauren Maggio, a professor of medicine and associate director of scholarly communication at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Description It has been well recognized that power distribution plays an important role in economic development.

[UPDATE] Das Programm des 5. VIVO-Workshops 2021 ist nun veröffentlicht. Auch dieses Jahr gibt es wieder eine Mischung aus Vorträgen zu verschiedenen Aspekten rund um Forschungsinformationssysteme generell und vor allem VIVO.

We now seek applicants for a new three-year research fellowship to be held from March 2021, for which the application closing deadline is 7 February 2021. Plan: to strengthen the current technical and computational infrastructure.

You can also open this content in Hypergraph (Download Hypergraph). We are gathering a group of researchers from a diverse set of disciplines to embark on an innovative research project investigating the question “ Does power corrupt? ” We decided to focus on this question because it is highly relevant in today’s research and practice, and although having engaged humanity for almost aeons, across disciplines different

You can also open this content in Hypergraph (Download Hypergraph). Research articles depict a destination, but not its journey. The journey is the messy middle that not everybody wants to know, but this garden of forking paths has substantial consequences for results. Because information often gets relegated to supplemental materials or is unavailable upon request, we often cannot know the actual research journey even if we wanted to.