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Is It Time For A Peer-Reviewed Bonus System?

LDRLB

Incentive compensation systems often seem just as likely to disappoint employees as to motivate them. If their perception is that the system is fair, everything works smoothly. However, if their perception is that the system is unfair, a motivational disaster can result.

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How Scientific Communication Can Spread Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, the authors highlight that most researchers today get their information and access the literature through search engines and recommender systems that can create a filter bubble. It is not without costs, however, as the peer-review process is usually removed in the rush to print.

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Nurses Are Key In Fighting The Infodemic

The Horizons Tracker

When nurses engaged in the Dear Pandemic campaign, it managed to amplify the impact of the efforts to better inform and educate the public about the pandemic, while also motivating both individual and systemic action.

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Does AI And Automation Do More Harm Than Good?

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It usually involves things like growing meat in a lab, discovering new drugs, and finding innovative ways of producing fertilizers. Evaluation of scientific work is frequently based on outcomes such as grants and peer-reviewed publications. They also heavily use machine learning in the analysis of large-scale experiments.

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Creating an Effective Peer Review System

Harvard Business Review

Many people think real-time peer reviews will be a key piece of the puzzle. But how do you create, maintain and support a successful real-time peer review program to make sure it delivers on its potential? Another company might choose to emphasize fiscal responsibility, collaboration, or innovation.

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The Infodemic In Scientific Literature During COVID

The Horizons Tracker

This has coincided with an average time to conduct the peer review process and publish each article shrinking, with virology papers being turned around in just 60 days. To date, attempts to use AI for such ends have floundered because of the figurative and ambiguous language used by researchers is not easy for AI systems to decipher.

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Rushing Back From Covid-19 Could Be Hugely Dangerous

The Horizons Tracker

Data was sourced from a wide range of peer-reviewed sources, to give them a full picture of the pandemic. The models produce three different approaches to ending the lockdown, and the impact each might have on both the healthcare systems and the economy of a country.