Stay informed with the latest public health research, insights, and evidence-based analysis from our team of experts.
We’re trying out a new format this month as we here at PubTrawlr transition to a new architecture. You’ll still be able to find the most up-to-date synthesis and recommendations. For whatever reason, it was a pretty light month: Thirty-Eight articles across these four journals.
Read more →
Here’s something a little outside our normal content. We are presenting this week (May 3, 2021) on the use of web-scraping to better understand context. While this doesn’t concern the translation of scientific findings, it does concern how these findings are implemented. We’ve long noted that the stuff that PubTrawlr does is just the first […]
Read more →
In one early-ish episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard confronts the android Commander Data in his quarters. Although Data has no emotion, he is mired in self-doubt and confusion after losing at a game he thought he would easily win. Data futilely searches for something, something that explains the loss; a malfunctioning […]
Read more →
The great people at the O’Pake Institute helped us to put together this demo video on how to use PubTrawlr’s Quick Search. Check it out and give it a go yourself. My son would be bummed out that it wasn’t set to Coffin Dance, but what can you do?
Read more →
Another month, another fresh batch of retraction. Twenty-Five articles were retracted by journal editors this month. Before we get to the results, I want to focus on a non-retracted article that got some press earlier this month and prompted a fair amount of pushback.
Read more →
Next week is the Global Implementation Society’s biennial conference. We are honored to be presenting on some of our syntheses work. For a sneak preview of our presentation, check out the recording below
Read more →
Let’s step into a time machine. The year is 2006. Swedish electronic group The Knife just released their seminal album Silent Shout. The Winter Olympics in Torino just concluded. And a little article by Eccles and Mittman announced a new journal, Implementation Science.
Read more →
We’re in a transitional phase here at PubTrawlr as we move to get our 101 Days of Science and monthly newsletters up and running. Part of that will include much more dynamic and interactive formatting. So, in the meanwhile, I decided to do something cheekily meta this afternoon: a review of journals focused on reviews! […]
Read more →Next Thursday will be the TecBridge Awards ceremony. We’re both excited and nervous. The organizers asked us to put together a series of videos explaining our company. It’s just my head with some crude effects, but it gives a pretty good overview of what PubTrawlr is about and why. Check it out below!
Read more →
PubTrawlr merch is here! Impress your friends! Be the belle of the ball! If interested, reach out to matt [at] pubtrawlr.com.
Read more →
With the recent pause in administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to concerns about blood clotting, there’s a renewed interest in vaccine hesitancy. This refers to the psychological barriers that prevent someone from receiving a vaccine. Is the public going to be more reluctant to get COVID vaccines because of emergent safety concerns, however […]
Read more →
Another month, another set of retractions! Thankfully, most researchers out there had a better month than Caesar. We’re trying a new format for this month. We’ll be talking through the data here on PubTrawlr’s blog page, and then linking to the full dataset. Over this past month, we’ve seen 31 retractions.
Read more →