Learning how to conduct accurate, discipline-specific academic research can feel daunting at first. But, with a solid understanding of the reasoning behind why we use academic citations coupled with ...

The citation black market is the unscrupulous act of exchanging citations to enhance research articles' perceived influence unduly. The citation black market functions through the following ...

Several citations in the original report, which focuses on children’s health, referenced papers that did not exist. White ...

Deep Research uses OpenAI's upcoming o3 reasoning model to perform complex tasks, taking its own sweet time to do so. The feature is available now for all paying ChatGPT customers, with the $200 ...

Citations have long been the default measure of academic influence, offering a seemingly simple way to track a scholar’s impact. The logic is straightforward: the more a piece of research is ...

In the humanities, research infrastructures often evolve from small-scale research frameworks that become widely shared tools. Yet a simple count of downloads or users may not capture whether these ...

Larger pivots are associated with fewer citations and a lower propensity for high-impact papers, defined as those in the top 5% of citations received in their field and publication year. Low-pivot ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), continuing our drive to modernise how we measure excellence in the chemical sciences. We are the ...

OpenAI's new Deep Research feature takes its reasoning model one step further. In just 5 to 30 minutes, it can generate a detailed research report on any subject. According to OpenAI, it can do ...