Scientific Communication and Education

BIP4COVID19: Releasing impact measures for articles relevant to COVID-19

1. Thanasis Vergoulis
2. Ilias Kanellos
3. Serafeim Chatzopoulos
4. Danae Pla Karidi
5. Theodore Dalamagas

Reviewed by ScreenIT

Life-course social disparities in body mass index trajectories across adulthood: cohort study evidence from China health and nutrition survey

1. Yusong Dang
2. Xinyu Duan
3. Peixi Rong
4. Mingxin Yan
5. Yaling Zhao
6. Baibing Mi
7. Jing Zhou
8. Yulong Chen
9. Duolao Wang
10. Leilei Pei

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This work shows that higher socioeconomic status is associated with a higher risk of obesity, which should inform China's obesity public health programs and policies, and also be of interest to other countries and communities. The evidence supporting the conclusions is strong, but the data analysis is incomplete and would benefit from more rigorous approaches.

Reviewed by eLife

National Institutes of Health research project grant inflation 1998 to 2021

1. Michael S Lauer
2. Joy Wang
3. Deepshikha Roychowdhury

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This is an important manuscript that provides support for the hypothesis that the relative increase in NIH funding matches the rate of overall inflation. The level of evidence is solid, and a clearer description of the analysis will further strengthen the manuscript. This paper should be of relevance to funders, investigators who are currently funded, and those who are seeking federal support.

Reviewed by eLife

Accessibility and Reproducible Research Practices in Cardiovascular Literature

1. Gabriel Heckerman
2. Eileen Tzng
3. Arely Campos-Melendez
4. Chisomaga Ekwueme
5. Adrienne L. Mueller

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  This is a descriptive paper in the field of metascience, which documents levels of accessibility and reproducible research practices in the field of cardiovascular science. As such, it does not make a theoretical contribution, but it argues, first, that there is a problem for this field, and second, it provides a baseline against which the impact of future initiatives to improve reproducibility can be assessed. The study was pre-registered and the methods and data are clearly documented. This kind of study is extremely labour-intensive and represents a great deal of work.

Reviewed by eLife

The U.S. faculty job market survives the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic

1. Ariangela J Kozik
2. Ada Hagan
3. Nafisa M Jadavji
4. Christopher T Smith
5. Amanda Haage

Reviewed by ScreenIT

Correction of the scientific production: publisher performance evaluation using a dataset of 4844 PubMed retractions

1. Catalin Toma
2. Liliana Padureanu
3. Bogdan Toma

Reviewed by PeerRef

Myth-busting the provider-user relationship for digital sequence information

1. Amber Hartman Scholz
2. Matthias Lange
3. Pia Habekost
4. Paul Oldham
5. Ibon Cancio
6. Guy Cochrane
7. Jens Freitag

Reviewed by GigaScience

Second Climate Survey of Biomedical PhD Students in the Time of Covid

1. Deepti Ramadoss
2. John P. Horn

Reviewed by ScreenIT

An exploratory analysis of 4844 withdrawn articles and their retraction notes

1. Catalin Toma
2. Liliana Padureanu

Reviewed by PeerRef

Climate Surveys of Biomedical PhD Students and Training Faculty Members in the Time of Covid

1. Deepti Ramadoss
2. Meghan McCord
3. John P. Horn

Reviewed by ScreenIT