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Investigating investigators: examining witnesses' influence on investigators.

This research examined the influence of eyewitness identification decisions on participants in the role of police investigators. Undergraduate "investigators" interviewed confederate "witnesses" and then searched a computer database of potential suspects. The database included information on each suspect's physical description, prior criminal record, alibi, and fingerprints. Participants select...

Is science driven by principal investigators?

In this paper we consider the question what is the scientific and career performance of principal investigators (PIs) of publicly funded research projects compared to scientific performance of all researchers. Our study is based on high quality data about (i) research projects awarded in Slovenia in the period 1994–2016 (7508 projects with 2725 PIs in total) and (ii) about scientific productivi...

Linking investigators

108 Many multifactorial diseases, such as various forms of cancer, diabetes, coronary heart disease and schizophrenia, still pose a considerable challenge for those researchers intent on understanding their causes. Some progress has been made in identifying the genes that contribute to such diseases and the availability of the sequence of the human genome holds further potential. However, scien...

Careers for clinician investigators.

For the purposes of this article, we define clinical research as that form of medical research that involves human beings as the direct subjects of the research at the individual or a population level. The research may involve the study of biological samples (eg, blood, genes, proteins, and tissue) as a means to understand the individual or the group, but the ultimate objective for the clinical...

Responsibilities of investigators.