Scientific journals may counter the misuse, misreporting, and misinterpretation of statistics by providing guidance to authors. We described nature prevalence statistical at 15 (top-ranked Impact Factor) in each 22 scientific disciplines across five high-level domains (N = 330 journals). The frequency varied (Health & Life Sciences: 122/165 journals, 74%; Multidisciplinary: 9/15 60%; Social 8/3...

Cognitive science is a child of the 1950s, the product of a time when psychology, anthropology and linguistics were redefining themselves and computer science and neuroscience as disciplines were coming into existence. Psychology could not participate in the cognitive revolution until it had freed itself from behaviorism, thus restoring cognition to scientific respectability. By then, it was be...

In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that a scientific revolution takes place as the result of an episode of noncumulative changes where one paradigm is replaced in whole or in part. Kuhn observed that the process of a scientific revolution begins with an existing paradigm, during which normal science is performed. Eventually, an increase in anomaly leads to a...

In the years 2001-2003 an internet-based information system was developed to assist students in learning and com prehending theoretical basics and concepts of sport scientific disciplines (biom echanics, physiology, psychology, etc.). In contrast to m any other m ultimedia systems used as eLear ning tools in sport science, the starting points are sports and no t disciplines. Questions r elated ...

In this paper we present an original model of sequential problem choice within scientific communities. Disciplinary knowledge is accumulated in the form of a growing tree-like web of research areas. Knowledge production is sequential since the problems addressed generate new problems that may in turn be handled. This model allows us to study how the reward system in science influences the scien...