In addition to providing novel insights into the functioning of the authorship and inventorship system, our results have important implications for administrators, managers, and policy makers, as well as for innovation scholars who often rely on patents and publications as measures of scientists' performance.
Clinical scientist reporting performance was less affected by the CADx tool with little change in reporting performance between reads 2 and 3, for both sets of patient images.
Interestingly, even though 2/3 of participants reported to have specific training guidelines for new Elispot performers in place, more than 50% never or rarely checked on the scientist's performance after the initial training.
Davis suggests that a drop in PLOS ONE's impact factor last June could be one explanation: Researchers tend to prefer journals with higher impact factors, a measure of how widely a journal is cited that is often used mistakenly, many argue to assess a scientist's performance.
That's not a surprise: the sport scientists and performance analysts who have come into rugby since professionalism have a background in data because they studied science.
In contrast to the above-mentioned studies, which emphasize the determination, identification, and analysis of scientists' research performance, Waldkirch et al. (2013) investigate the impact of citation metrics on the performance of German business administration researchers.
"Despite being prohibited substances in professional sport, peptides and hormones are being used by professional athletes in Australia, facilitated by sports scientists, high-performance coaches and sports staff," it said.
Adam Grainger, a performance scientist of more than 10 years at Sale, Wasps and Saracens, corroborates this.
She had been out on a few dates with sports performance scientist Scott Gardner, but that was as far as it had got - the Olympics, naturally, came first.
