T he notion of “scientific excellence” has entered the vocabulary of scientists and funders and has embedded itself in the language of evaluation guidelines as part of a broader discourse about the new “social contract” for science. While excellence in science should be nurtured and rewarded, and while structures and practices that support excellence are important, the questions of what we mean...

Automatic detection of outliers is universally needed when working with scientific datasets, e.g., for cleaning datasets or flagging novel samples to guide instrument acquisition analysis. We present Domain-agnostic Outlier Ranking Algorithms (DORA), a configurable pipeline that facilitates application and evaluation outlier methods in variety domains. DORA allows users configure experiments by...

Introduction Primary insomnia is frequently present in the general population, with epidemiologic research reporting prevalence values from 10% to as high 60%. Chronic associated a significant impact on professional, academic, and daily life functionality, it also may be responsible for decreasing quality of life. Multiple generations drugs have been launched clinical use last decades, but each...

Entrevista realizada com Dora Shellard Corrêa, professora adjunta do curso de História da Universidade Estadual Londrina (UEL), que vê a construção uma obra referência incontroversa quando o assunto é análise histórica paisagens. Desde sua tese doutorado, publicada em livro sob título Paisagens sobrepostas: Índios, posseiros e fazendeiros nas matas Itapeva (1923-1930), paisagem tem sido seu obj...

Editors The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was issued on May 16 this year. Initially signed by 155 scientists and 78 scientifi c institutions, it explicitly proposes eliminating the use of the impact factor (IF) in science journals " as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist's contributions, or in hiring, pr...

Early career scientists today face many obstacles in their effort to achieve an independent career, including stiff competition for grant funding and jobs. Many of these hurdles reappear throughout one's scientific career; thus, for example, achieving and maintaining external funding for one's research is a widely used criterion in evaluations for academic advancement. One widely perceived barr...

THIS EDITORIAL COINCIDES WITH THE RELEASE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO DECLARATION ON RESEARCH Assessment (DORA), the outcome of a gathering of concerned scientists at the December 2012 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology.* To correct distortions in the evaluation of scientifi c research, DORA aims to stop the use of the “journal impact factor” in judging an individual scientist’s work. Th...

I n his editorial “Dear DORA”, Howy Jacobs commented on the recent San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) to address the misuse of the journal impact factor (IF) and discussed alternatives. DORA stipulates that the IF must not be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, or to assess an individual scientist’s contributions in hiring, promotion ...