UNLABELLED A review of the United States Office of Research Integrity annual reports identified 228 individuals who have committed misconduct, of which 94% involved fraud. Analysis of the data by career stage and gender revealed that misconduct occurred across the entire career spectrum from trainee to senior scientist and that two-thirds of the individuals found to have committed misconduct we...

With the new screening and treatment guidelines and the prospect of human papillomavirus vaccination for adolescents, the current total volume of Papanicolaou (Pap) tests will be significantly reduced. We used available data to assess the current supply and demand in the cytotechnology labor market and how an expected change in Pap test volume impacts this market. Cytotechnologists' data were o...

These letters discuss issues relating to Cold Fusion and Condensed-Matter Nuclear Science, including the extent to which such research should be treated seriously by the mainstream physics community.

The impact of a journal on its community is usually judged based on its impact factor. Researchers often aim to publish their research findings at journals with high impact factors. Conversely, researchers tend to judge the quality of a conference based on its acceptance rate. However, it remains unknown if the low acceptance rate of a conference reflects a high impact on its community compared...

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This paper examines the relation between annual report readability and firm performance and earnings persistence. I measure the readability of public company annual reports using the Fog index from the computational linguistics literature and the length of the document. I find that: (1) the annual reports of firms with lower earnings are harder to read (i.e., they have a higher Fog index and ar...

A journal’s impact and similarity with rivals is closely related to its competitive intensity. A subject area can be considered as an ecological system of journals, and can then be measured using the competitive intensity concept from plant systems. Based on Journal Citation Reports data from 1997, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2013, we calculated the mutual citation, cosine similarity, and competitive...

A narrative is a brief summary of specific events experienced by patients, during the course of a clinical trial. Narrative writing involves multiple activities such as generation of patient profiles, review of data sources, and identification of events for which narratives are required. A sponsor outsources narrative writing activities to leverage the expertise of service providers which in tu...

Purpose – Citation analysis is widely used as an evaluation method within sciences. The purpose of this paper is to use citation analyses to add insight into the interaction between economics journals. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a method of citation analysis using multiple linear regressions on both cited and citing economics journals. The proposed method controls for the ...