Scientific Communication and Education

Improved science communication and student gains from an undergraduate biomedical research experience

1. Donna Ward
2. Yueh-Ying Han
3. Christopher Qoyawayma
4. April Dukes
5. T. Brooke McClendon
6. Michelle L. Manni

Reviewed by PREreview

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

1. Alex James
2. Franca Buelow
3. Liam Gibson
4. Ann Brower

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This study provides convincing evidence that the quality of research in female-dominated fields of research is systematically undervalued by the research community. The authors' findings are based on analyses of data from a research assessment exercise in New Zealand and data on funding success rates in Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom. This work is an important contribution to the discourse on gender biases in academia, underlining the pervasive influence of gender on whole fields of research, as well as on individual researchers.

Reviewed by eLife

Have AI-Generated Texts from LLM Infiltrated the Realm of Scientific Writing? A Large-Scale Analysis of Preprint Platforms

1. Huzi Cheng
2. Bin Sheng
3. Aaron Lee
4. Varun Chaudary
5. Atanas G. Atanasov
6. Nan Liu
7. Yue Qiu
8. Tien Yin Wong
9. Yih-Chung Tham
10. Yingfeng Zheng

Reviewed by preLights

Sci-comm “behind the scenes”: Gendered narratives of scientific outreach activities in the life sciences

1. Perry G. Beasley-Hall
2. Pam Papadelos
3. Anne Hewitt
4. Charlotte R. Lassaline
5. Kate D. L. Umbers
6. Michelle T. Guzik

Reviewed by preLights

Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty

1. Nicholas LaBerge
2. Kenneth Hunter Wapman
3. Aaron Clauset
4. Daniel B Larremore

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  Efforts to increase the representation of women in academia have focussed on efforts to recruit more women and to reduce the attrition of women. This study - which is based on analyses of data on more than 250,000 tenured and tenure-track faculty from the period 2011-2020, and the predictions of counterfactual models - shows that hiring more women has a bigger impact than reducing attrition. The study is an important contribution to work on gender representation in academia, and the evidence in support of the findings is convincing.

Reviewed by eLife

An analysis and metric of reusable data licensing practices for biomedical resources

1. Seth Carbon
2. Robin Champieux
3. Julie A. McMurry
4. Lilly Winfree
5. Letisha R. Wyatt
6. Melissa A. Haendel

Reviewed by PREreview

Experts fail to reliably detect AI-generated histological data

1. Jan Hartung
2. Stefanie Reuter
3. Vera Anna Kulow
4. Michael Fähling
5. Cord Spreckelsen
6. Ralf Mrowka

Reviewed by preLights

Scientific civility and academic performance

1. Emma Camacho
2. Quigly Dragotakes
3. Isabella Hartshorn
4. Arturo Casadevall
5. Daniel L Buccino

Reviewed by preLights

Analysis of science journalism reveals gender and regional disparities in coverage

1. Natalie R Davidson
2. Casey S Greene

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This important bibliometric analysis shows that authors of scientific papers whose names suggest they are female or East Asian get quoted less often in news stories about their work. While caveats are inevitable in this type of study, the evidence for the authors' claims is convincing, with a rigorous, and importantly, reproducible analysis of over 20,000 articles from across 15 years. This paper will be of interest to science journalists and to researchers who study science communication.

Reviewed by eLife, preLights

Finding the right words to evaluate research: An empirical appraisal of eLife’s assessment vocabulary

1. Tom E. Hardwicke
2. Sarah R. Schiavone
3. Beth Clarke
4. Simine Vazire

Reviewed by preLights