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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?
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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 Before we get to the results, I want to focus on a non-retracted article that got some press earlier this month and prompted a fair amount of pushback.
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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
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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.
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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!
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PubTrawlr merch is here! Impress your friends! Be the belle of the ball! If interested, reach out to matt [at] pubtrawlr.com.
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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 […]
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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.
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A recent article is making rounds in the Twitter circles I follow: Brownson et al’s Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity. Because so much of PubTrawlr’s work is about both implementation science AND equity, let’s deconstruct what this article is saying.
Read more →Our team has been preparing for the TecBridge Business Plan Competition, which helps develop each stage PA-based companies. We go live with our presentation in about 40 minutes! We’ll have more updates on this in the coming days, but in the meanwhile, we wanted to share a few of our slides with you. And, our […]
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The thunder from down under rumbled this week at 2021 Evidence and Implementation Summit hosted by CEI and Monash University. In a different world and time, we would have been there in person. Alas. We presented on using NLP methods to synthesize scientific evidence (so basically the methodological rationale for PubTrawlr), but that’s another post. Today, we’re going […]
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