The literature on animal personality is dominated by papers lacking any data. These papers, which we will call “data-free” papers, are cited and recognized twice as much as comparable empirical studies. In this data-free paper, we highlight 4 common data-free contributions that often fail to have an impact on the topic: (a) novel conceptual frameworks suggesting novel avenues of research or hyp...

Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers? Or does the increased productivity in science only result in a sea of irrelevant papers as a perverse effect of competition and the increased use of indicators for research evaluation and accountability focus? We use a Swedish author disambiguated dataset consisting of 48,000 researchers and thei...

Do highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers? Or do high productive researchers mainly produce a sea of irrelevant papers-in other words do we find a diminishing marginal result from productivity? The answer on these questions is important, as it may help to answer the question of whether the increased competition and increased use of indica...

has entered into its fiftieth year of publication in the year 2013. The journal began to be indexed in Science Citation Index since it came into being in 1964 as the Indian Journal of Biochemistry (renamed as Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1971) and has indexed 6646 papers from the journal since. In 2012, the journal for the first time crossed the Impact Factor (IF) 1.000. As ...

Interview with Michael Ristow on his highly cited paper on his highly cited paper: Ristow M, Zarse K, Oberbach A, Klöting N, Birringer M, Kiehntopf M, Stumvoll M, Kahn CR, Bl?her M. "Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humans". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 May 26; 106(21):8665-70. By January 2012, "Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exe...