In 2008, a Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences working group chaired by Professor Emilio Bossi issued a "Memorandum on scientific integrity and the handling of misconduct in the scientific context", together with a paper setting out principles and procedures concerning integrity in scientific research. In the Memorandum, unjustified claims of authorship in scientific publications are referred ...

This evidence-based opinion piece gives a short overview of the increase in retractions of publications in scientific journals and discusses various reasons for that increase. Also discussed are some of the recent prominent cases of scientific misconduct, the number of authors with multiple retractions, and problems with reproducibility of published research. Finally, some of the effects of fau...

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the behaviour of optimal dynamic routing strategies in a collection of example networks. The primary method of investigation used within the paper is the general bound on loss performance developed by Kelly [l]. This bound may be derived for general network architectures and we consider the examples of symmetric networks, networks with a single no...

Correspondence: Dra. María Bordons. Centro de Información y Documentación Científica (CINDOC). CSIC. Joaquín Costa, 22. 28002 Madrid. España. E-mail: [email protected] SEE ARTICLE ON PAGES 806-14 Published papers play a vital role in all stages of scientific research. They are the starting point for all research projects since they reflect the state of knowledge regarding the topics they ...

The VTT Publication register has been OAI compatible since June 2003. In other words, harvesters, using the protocol created by Open Archives Initiative, have been able to gather metadata from our database into OAI compatible service providers, typically search services. Thus, our database is no longer hidden in the Deep Web. In this paper we shall explore the easy of implementation of the Open...

Ranking the significance of scientific publications is a long-standing challenge. The network-based analysis is a natural and common approach for evaluating the scientific credit of papers. Although the number of citations has been widely used as a metric to rank papers, recently some iterative processes such as the well-known PageRank algorithm have been applied to the citation networks to add...

Despite tendencies toward convergence, differences between individuals and groups continue to exist in beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. An agent-based adaptive model reveals the effects of a mechanism of convergent social influence. The actors are placed at fixed sites. The basic premise is that the more similar an actor is to a neighbor, the more likely that that actor will adopt one of the n...

While we applaud PloS’ use of Digital Object Identifi ers (“The What and Whys of DOIs,” PLoS Biol 1: e57 doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0000057), we also note the lack of provisions in your instructions for authors for preserving access to electronic information residing at a cited Internet addresses via Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Medical and scientifi c literature increasingly cites informat...