Research at universities has shown diminishing returns in terms of papers published and patents issued per dollars of funding.
It is one idea to fix the composition conundrum explored in two papers published this week by the journal Science.
Brazil's share of the scientific papers published in international journals has risen from 0.4% to 1.2% over the past 15 years.
No lesser lights than Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow and Gary Becker argued over the topic in papers published between 1962 and 1972.
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Two papers published this week in Science lend weight to this idea.
Two papers published in the journal PLoS Medicine followed the health outcomes of pregnant women and their babies after a previous C-section.
Ask anyone who works in the research department of a large pharmaceutical company tasked with developing drugs based on papers published by academic scientists.
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Papers published by U.S. researchers were more likely to be cited in the scientific literature than those in any country except the Netherlands or Switzerland.
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Having set out this agenda, the authors gather a series of papers published over the past few years to show what kind of results one can expect.
Papers published by U.S. researchers were much more likely to have had foreign co-authors, which the SciVal analysts think means that the U.S. is more collaborative as well as being a bigger research force.
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The findings, reported in papers published by Nature and the Public Library of Science, were based on samples from 242 healthy volunteers in the U.S., from such sites as the mouth, nose, skin, intestine and vagina.
Patrick Salmon, the Foreign Office historian who compiled the volume of papers published on Friday as German Unification 1989-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas Section III Volume VII, says Mrs Thatcher's trenchant objections made little practical difference.
The report, which draws on evidence from a wide range of sources such as academic studies or papers published by the World Bank, points out that there is a lack of data gathered specifically to measure impact based on gender.
There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
In six research papers published in Science, an international team described how the hominids had almost-human hands attached to apelike arms, a rib cage that was narrow like an ape's at the top but more humanlike lower down, and a spine that likely had the same number of vertebrae as a human.
Although IPCC officials claim the group relies solely on peer-reviewed material for its assessment reports, Laframboise audited the Fourth Assessment and found 21 of the 44 Fourth Assessment chapters contained at least 40 percent non-peer reviewed reference sources, often taking the form of student theses and advocacy papers published by environmental activist groups.
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Last March, following accusations by independent bloggers in Japan and Germany, the American Heart Association (AHA) issued an Expression of Concern about five papers published in AHA journals co-authored by the chief investigator of the Kyoto Heart Study, Hiroaki Matsubara, who was a prominent cardiologist and researcher at Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan.
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The above chart looks at how many papers were published in the information technology area (on the X-axis) and how likely those papers were to be cited by other scientific papers.
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Some data actually indicate Lantus' market share has gone up since the Diabetologia papers were published.
Staff in the 50 newly-identified posts will be sent letters before the budget papers are published, Mr Bluh said.
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These papers were published by the Mary Woodard Lasker Charitable Trust, which has an interest in the findings, since it promotes medical research.
He says the company tried to contact him before his papers were published, but he doesn't understand why it hasn't done more studies of its drug.
These papers were published in the most respected epidemiology journals.
From that experiment, seven scientific papers were published.
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Both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson have reported that Harvard professor of psychology Marc Hauser has decided to resign after an investigation concluded he was guilty of scientific misconduct in publishing questionable data in three papers he published in the major science journals.
The papers were all published in well-known journals, including a second Nature paper, Nature Medicine, and 4 separate papers in Circulation.
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She now has 83 peer-reviewed published papers for which she is either the author or co-author.
Through published papers and talks, Ryder and his colleagues have repeatedly called for an organized global effort.
Measured by the number of published papers, China is the second most productive scientific nation on Earth.
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