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Checking In With: Health Equity Research

We were at a conference earlier this week that focused on implementing evidence-based practices to effectively address health equity. It’s a big problem because there’s a lot of evidence out there, and we need to draw conclusions. We decided to comb through the last 101 days of health equity and health equity-adjacent research to see […]

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Monthly recap

The GIC special. April in Implementation Science

The GIC conference just kicked off, and it’s stupendous to be able to connect with implementation researchers and practitioners the world over. We wish we would have gotten a screenshot of the participant spread. To help the audience stay on top of recent articles, we did a quick synthesis of the last month of published […]

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EL5

Explain It Like I’m Five: 5335 Days of Implementation Science

Our Advisory Board member Dr. Victoria Scott and I (Jonathan) recently put out an article on some of the methods we use here at PubTrawlr. We also both have kids in elementary school. How might we explain our work to them?

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April Showers bring May Articles. The Month in Community Psychology

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.

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PubTrawlr News

Webscraping for Contextual Data

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 […]

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It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose

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 […]

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Using PubTrawlr’s Quick Search

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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Retractions

The Cardinal’s Revenge: April’s Retraction Notice

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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PubTrawlr News

Global Implementation Conference Sneak Preview

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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PubTrawlr News

Let’s read 1700 articles at the same time! NLP and Implementation Science

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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April’s Monthly Review of Systematic Reviews

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! […]

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Getting Ready for TecBridge19

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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