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Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

As AI keeps improving, mathematicians struggle to foretell their own future

First Proof, a benchmarking initiative, is launching its second round to evaluate large language models' ability to contribute to research-level mathematics, now requiring transparency and access from participating AI companies.
fromNature
4 months ago

Google Scholar-based tool gives extra credit to first and last authors

The h-index - a widely used measure of impact based on publications and citation count over time - treats all of an author's papers equally, irrespective of whether they are a first, last or middle author. A browser extension called GScholarLens now aims to change that for Google Scholar users. Launched earlier this year for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers, the tool provides a weighted metric, called the Scholar h-index (S h-index), which accounts for a researcher's position in author lists.
Science
fromNature
8 months ago

Metascience can improve science - but it must be useful to society, too

The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue metascience: the use of scientific methods to understand and improve science itself.
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