This study reports the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and gender on secondary students' academic results. Bayesian statistical analyses of 4967 observations show that gender, family size as well as parental education and occupation all contribute to students' performance in STEM subjects....

Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...

In this paper, we present some striking facts learned from a random subsampling of the global database of retracted academic papers, which have not been reported before and not discussed in the recent (famous) paper in Science by Brainard and You (Science 2019, doi:10.1126/science.aav8384). Our...

Although retractions are commonly considered as negative outcomes, the fact remains that they play a positive role in the academic community, for instance, help scientific enterprise perform its self-correcting function; become lessons learned for future researchers; represent social...