Stress adaptation and resilience of academics in higher education

PM Ross, E Scanes, W Locke - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024 - Springer
Academics in higher education around the world indicate high levels of stress from multiple
sources. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to intensify stress levels. Adaptation and …

State of the Amphibia 2020: A review of five years of amphibian research and existing resources

MC Womack, E Steigerwald… - Ichthyology & …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Amphibians are a clade of over 8,400 species that provide unique research opportunities
and challenges. With amphibians undergoing severe global declines, we posit that …

Peer review perpetuates barriers for historically excluded groups

OM Smith, KL Davis, RB Pizza, R Waterman… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Peer review is central to the scientific process and scientists' career advancement, but bias
at various stages of the review process disadvantages some authors. Here we use peer …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science

SW Davies, HM Putnam, T Ainsworth, JK Baum… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Success and impact metrics in science are based on a system that perpetuates sexist and
racist “rewards” by prioritizing citations and impact factors. These metrics are flawed and …

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

SW Davies, MH Gamache, LI Howe-Kerr, NG Kriefall… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars' work

O Vásárhelyi, I Zakhlebin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Unbiased science dissemination has the potential to alleviate some of the known gender
disparities in academia by exposing female scholars' work to other scientists and the public …

The good, the bad and the rude peer-review

AF Mavrogenis, A Quaile, MM Scarlat - International Orthopaedics, 2020 - Springer
Peer-review is the core of the editorial process and the basis of the publication system. The
quality of peer-review depends on the quality of the peer-reviewers. Peer reviewers are …

“Being really confidently wrong”: Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback.

V Clarke, V Braun, J Adams, JEM Callaghan… - Qualitative …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative
researchers' experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research …

Quantifying professionalism in peer review

TG Gerwing, AM Allen Gerwing, S Avery-Gomm… - Research Integrity and …, 2020 - Springer
Background The process of peer-review in academia has attracted criticism surrounding
issues of bias, fairness, and professionalism; however, frequency of occurrence of such …

Characteristics of heart failure trials associated with under-representation of women as lead authors

S Whitelaw, L Thabane, MA Mamas, N Reza… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
Background Clinical trials change practice in cardiology, and leading them requires
research training, mentorship, sponsorship, and networking. Women report challenges in …