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How might AI-assisted peer review tools reshape scientific publishing, and what safeguards should be implemented to maintain review quality while addressing the increasing volume of submissions?
The peer-reviewing process is being faced with ever-growing challenges as submission rates are still rising exponentially in all areas. Journal editors are faced with the challenge of getting capable reviewers who are ready to volunteer their time, with a result being delays in reviewing, reviewer exhaustion, and worse, compromised quality. Meanwhile, AI technologies are accelerating their ability to review scientific manuscripts for methodology, statistical fitting, plagiarism screenings,...
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To what extent can AI be used in scientific writing?
Routine aspects of inspection and considerations include, but not limited to: Obtaining the research question and hypothesis, choosing statistical analytic approaches and methods, data Interpretation, English editing, content Generation, drawing conclusions, etc. These are just several aspects, however, the potential hazards include the risk of bias, uniform tone in writing, lack of creativity, etc. Although with supervised use all these aspects can be partially controlled, to what extend do...
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As an editor for peer-reviewed journal, what would you consider appropriate in making a decision to accept a peer-reviewer's report?
When evaluating a peer-reviewed study on surface water resources used for a commercial water operation, it is expected that the reviewer will thoroughly assess the methodology, including water sampling procedures and data analysis. In addition, the reviewer should identify potential oversights and suggest necessary improvements or alternative methods. However, when an expert reviewer raises concerns, and the authors respond with contrary submissions supported by well-detailed references, how...
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How can I do a mediation model with one categorical and two continuous variables?
How can I do a mediation model with one categorical and two continuous variables
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Are there concrete examples that genomics research or genomic selection led to superior crop cultivars?
Numerous articles predict that genomics research and genomic selection would accelerate plant breeding. We have been conducting a study to see how much more effective is genomic selection relative to conventional visual selection in plant cultivar development for a number of years and are about to write a summary article. We are interested in knowing similar researches and their results and conclusions.
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How many samples do you need to analyze for effective blood plasma products quality control?
A blood bank is set up with a laboratory for the preparation of blood components. Product quality control (e.g. plasma sterility) should be performed. How many samples do you need to analyze for effective control? How do you calculate this number? Does it vary depending on the total number of components produced?
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AI for academic writing: friend or foe?
Given the increasing availability of AI writing tools, how can academic institutions ensure the responsible use of these technologies while maintaining the integrity of research and scholarship?
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How do you call an outcome if you have multiple endpoints to investigate it?
Hello, When you want to investigate exacerbations (outcome of interest) in asthma, you can measure: 1) the incidence rate in the last year (i.e. mean numbers of exacerbations in the last year in your total population); 2) the frequency of patients reporting one exacerbation in the last year; 3) the time-to-1st-exacerbation within the last year. So you have 3 different endpoints to explore the same outcome. Could you please help me in finding the technical term to define this property of the...
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Data fabrication, p-hacking and biased peer review are issues with published papers. In your opinion, how can we fix this problem as a scientific community?
Recently, these issues have been brought up in many fields, resulting in retraction of important papers and investigation on the data produced by prominent scientists. That undermines the trust I used to put in published data, granted that we are always skeptical in science, but we always move forward basing our new hypothesis on what has been published. I wonder how can we help to improve the trustworthiness of published data.
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Does the epistemologic scene support the problems of XXI? Which some new visions should be considered in all kind of research?
Epistemology is often treated as the central field of philosophical discussions. But, as she discusses the nature of knowledge and beliefs, she goes beyond the field of philosophy and influences all areas of modern thought, its studies and people's daily lives. All academic disciplines ask questions about method, validation, and truth: that is, epistemological questions. Science has accumulated several epistemological views over its more than four hundred years of existence. In this way, we...
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