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Free-Riding on Power Laws: questioning the validity of the Impact Factor as a measure of research quality in organization studies
ReferenceJoel A. C. Baum Organization. 2011;18(4):449-466. doi: 10.1177/1350508411403531 The simplicity and apparent objectivity of the Institute for Scientific Information’s Impact Factor has resulted in its widespread use to assess the quality of organization …
Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
ReferenceErin C McKiernan , Lesley A Schimanski , Carol Muñoz Nieves , Lisa Matthias , Meredith T Niles , Juan P Alperin , Emma Pewsey , Peter Rodgers , Björn Brembs eLife. 2019;8:e47338. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47338 We analyzed how often and in what ways the Journal …
Organs on chips could make biomedical research more equitable
ReferenceAndrea C. del Valle Nature. 2025;644(8076):338-338. doi: 10.1038/d41586-025-02569-9 Letter to the Editor https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02569-9 Keywords Biotechnology ethics policy Research management Scientific community Library Collection(s) …
Advancing Human and Environmental Safety Science Using In Silico Methods
ReferenceAlessandra Roncaglioni , Simona Kovarich , Kamel Mansouri , Igor V. Tetko Chemical Research in Toxicology. 2025;38(8):1281-1282. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5c00293 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5c00293 Library Collection(s) In Silico Download …
A Public Records Review of Cadaver and Terminal Animal Use in US and Canadian Veterinary Schools
ReferenceRobin M. Chadwin , Crystal L. Heath , Ryan W. Merkley Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. 2025:e20240092. doi: 10.3138/jvme-2024-0092 Veterinary students, interns, and residents have often been taught medical and surgical skills using cadavers or …
End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments
ReferenceHidde Ploegh Nature. 2011;472(7344):391-391. doi: 10.1038/472391a Peer review of scientific papers in top journals is bogged down by unnecessary demands for extra lab work, argues Hidde Ploegh. https://www.nature.com/articles/472391a Keywords peer review …
It is Time to Re-evaluate the Peer Review Process for Preclinical Research
ReferenceRajat Bhattacharya , Lee M. Ellis BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2018;40(1):10.1002/bies.201700185. doi: 10.1002/bies.201700185 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789767/ Library Collection(s) …
India races to raise animal-free drug testing standards
ReferenceSurat Parvatam Nature India. 2025. doi: 10.1038/d44151-025-00151-w With more than 80 labs now developing human-relevant models, scientists call for global-standard validation systems to emulate the United States and Europe by shifting away from …
Some Misuses of Journal Impact Factor in Research Evaluation
ReferenceJesús Rey-Rocha , M. José MartÃn-Sempere , Jesús MartÃnez-FrÃas , Fernando López-Vera Cortex. 2001;37(4):595-597. doi: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70603-8 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945208706038 Library Collection(s) Bias, peer …
Aberrant pace of cortical neuron development in brain organoids from patients with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome-associated schizophrenia
ReferenceSneha B. Rao , Zhixiong Sun , Francesco Brundu , Yannan Chen , Yan Sun , Huixiang Zhu , Robert J. Shprintzen , Raju Tomer , Raul Rabadan , Kam W. Leong , Sander Markx , Steven A. Kushner , Bin Xu , Joseph A. Gogos Nature Communications. 2025;16(1):6986. …