Evolution of research topics and paradigms in plant sciences
Plant Science Research WeeklyIs it possible to summarize objectively the recent history of plant science? Shiu and Lehti-Shiu have used a combination of machine learning and language modeling to track terms used in plant science articles from the 1950s to now, as a strategy to understand how research topics and tools have evolved.…
Promoting inclusive metrics of success and impact to dismantle a discriminatory reward system in science (PLOS Biol)
Plant Science Research WeeklyAs scientists, we often measure what we can measure as a proxy for what we want to measure. Critical to this strategy is a good understanding of how well the first represents the second. Currently, advancement in science largely rests upon factors that are easy to measure: number of publications and…