Preprints
Filtering by Subject: Research Methods in Life Sciences
Slicing: a sustainable approach to the analysis of long-term biobanks
Published: 2018-12-19
Subjects: Life Sciences, Research Methods in Life Sciences
The longitudinal study of populations is a core tool for understanding ecological and evolutionary processes. These studies typically collect samples over individual lifetimes and across multiple generations, building up a continuously growing biobank from which samples are then analysed in clusters over time in the laboratory. To ensure data are comparable among clusters we need to account for [...]
Research Weaving: Visualizing the Future of Research Synthesis
Published: 2018-11-09
Subjects: Life Sciences, Research Methods in Life Sciences
We propose, and formalize, a new framework for research synthesis of both evidence and influence, named ‘research weaving’. It summarizes and visualizes information content, history, and networks among a collection of diverse publication types on any given topic. Research weaving achieves this feat by combining the power of two methodologies: systematic mapping and bibliometrics. Systematic [...]