Scientific Communication and Education

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

More than a token photo: humanizing scientists enhances student engagement

1. Robin A. Costello
2. Emily P. Driessen
3. Melissa K. Kjelvik
4. Elizabeth H. Schultheis
5. Rachel M. Youngblood
6. Ash T. Zemenick
7. Marjorie G. Weber
8. Cissy J. Ballen

Reviewed by PREreview

Analysis of NIH K99/R00 awards and the career progression of awardees

1. Nicole C Woitowich
2. Sarah R Hengel
3. Christopher Solis
4. Tauras P Vilgalys
5. Joel Babdor
6. Daniel J Tyrrell

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This study follows the career trajectories of the winners of an early-career funding award in the United States, and finds that researchers with greater mobility, men, and those hired at well-funded institutions experience greater subsequent funding success. Using data on K99/R00 awards from the National Institutes of Health's grants management database, the authors provide compelling evidence documenting the inequalities that shape faculty funding opportunities and career pathways, and show that these inequalities disproportionately impact women and faculty working at particular institutions, including historically black colleges and universities. Overall, the article is an important addition to the literature examining inequality in biomedical research in the United States.

Reviewed by eLife

Biomedical researchers’ perspectives on the reproducibility of research: a cross-sectional international survey

1. Kelly D. Cobey
2. Sanam Ebrahimzadeh
3. Matthew J. Page
4. Robert T. Thibault
5. Phi-Yen Nguyen
6. Farah Abu-Dalfa
7. David Moher

Reviewed by PREreview

“Important Enough to Show the World”: Using Authentic Research Opportunities and Micropublications to Build Students’ Science Identities

1. Lisa DaVia Rubenstein
2. Kelsey A. Woodruff
3. April M. Taylor
4. James B. Olesen
5. Philip J. Smaldino
6. Eric M. Rubenstein

Reviewed by PREreview