6 papers
The geopolitics of knowledge: tipping points, national fingerprints, and the unequal globalization of science
Irina Vorobeva, Maxime Lenormand, Germana Berlantini +1
Science is often portrayed as a universal and self-contained system, driven solely by the internal logic of knowledge accumulation and isolated from the turbulences of the socio-po…
The Gerontocratization of Science: How hypergrowth reshapes knowledge circulation
Antoine Houssard, Floriana Gargiulo, Tommaso Venturini +2
Scientific literature has been growing exponentially for decades, with publications from the last twenty years now comprising 60% of all academic output. While the impact of inform…
Streetlight Effect in Post-Publication Peer Review: Are Open Access Publications More Scrutinized?
Abdelghani Maddi, Emmanuel Monneau, Catherine Gaspare +2
The Streetlight Effect represents an observation bias that occurs when individuals search for something only where it is easiest to look. Despite the significant development of Pos…
PubPeer and Self-Correction of Science: Male-Led Publications More Prone to Retraction
Abdelghani Maddi, Emmanuel Monneau, Catherine Guaspare +2
This article has a dual objective. Firstly, it aims to investigate whether gender diversity in publications reviewed on Pubpeer has an impact on the (non)retraction of those public…
Epistemic integration and social segregation of AI in neuroscience
Sylvain Fontaine, Floriana Gargiulo, Michel Dubois +1
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) shows a spectacular ability of insertion inside a variety of disciplines which use it for scientific advancements and which sometimes…
A collaborative path to scientific discovery: Distribution of labor, productivity and innovation in collaborative science
Floriana Gargiulo, Maria Castaldo, Tommaso Venturini +1
In this work we dig into the process of scientific discovery by looking at a yet unexploited source of information: Polymath projects. Polymath projects are an original attempt to…