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Ruth McNally

Researcher at Anglia Ruskin University

Publications -  53
Citations -  1196

Ruth McNally is an academic researcher from Anglia Ruskin University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociology of scientific knowledge & Rabies. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 53 publications receiving 1152 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruth McNally include University of Pennsylvania & Lancaster University.

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Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project

Chris F. Taylor, +58 more
- 01 Aug 2008 - 
TL;DR: The Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) project aims to foster the coordinated development of minimum-information checklists and provide a resource for those exploring the range of extant checklists.
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Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an ethnographic account of DNA fingerprinting and its evolution using interviews, observations of courtroom trials and laboratory processes, and documentary reconstruction, and provide compelling evidence of the obstacles and opportunities at the intersection of science, technology, sociology, and law.
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“Science,”“common sense,” and DNA evidence: a legal controversy about the public understanding of science

TL;DR: In the case of as discussed by the authors, the difference between "scientific" and "common sense" evidence was explicitly at stake, and a boundary between the two categories of evidence was established to preserve the jury's role as trier of fact.
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Sociomics! Using the IssueCrawler to map, monitor and engage with the global proteomics research network

TL;DR: The findings are that proteomics on the web is a scale‐free network whose nodes display considerable "dynamic range" and can be integrated towards the development of a new “ systems sociology” approach to the study of society.

Socialising Big Data: From concept to practice

TL;DR: The Socialising Big Data project as mentioned in this paper explored how relations between data are also simultaneously relations between people and that it is through such relations that a shared literacy and social framework for Big Data can be forged.