To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work

To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work

As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research. In fields where crowdfunding has become a major venue for fundraising such as the arts and technology, building an audience for one's work is key for successful crowdfunding. For science, to what extent does audience buil...

How Do Scientists Reach Their Target Audience? Academic and Popular Science Articles in Nutrition

The aim of the current study was to investigate frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in English academic research and popular science articles in nutrition. A total of 60 English articles published in three popular databases and four academic journals were analyzed for interactional metadiscourse markers, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-me...

How to Avoid Spreading Error Scientists Must Search for Corrections

In 1954 Conway Zirkle reviewed the fascinating history of the patterns and context of citations to the falsified scientific experiments published by Viennese zoologist Paul Kammerer. Using two types of salamanders and the male of the midwife toad, Kammerer claimed in the 1920s to have shown that acquired characteristics were inherited. But, as Zirkle recounts, “the acquired characters ... turne...

Technical Appendix for “Link to Success: How Blogs Build an Audience by Promoting Rivals”

Opinion: In the wake of Paris Agreement, scientists must embrace new directions for climate change research.

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