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Data citation roadmap for publishers23 January 2019A recent article published in the journal Scientific Data presents a practical roadmap for scholarly publishers to implement data citation in accordance with the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles […]
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ISMPP University webinar on Open Access and Medical Publishing22 January 2019Each year, the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) hosts a complimentary ISMPP University (ISMPP U) educational webinar that is open to the public. This year’s special 90-minute session […]
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The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals22 January 2019A new paper from the PEERE group investigating the effect of open peer review reports has been published in Nature Communications. Authors Giangiacomo Bravo, Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, plus EASE […]
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Predatory Publishers, Rogue Journals, and the Potential Corruption of Addiction Science21 January 2019An interesting article addressing ‘predatory publishing’ has been published by EASE member Tom Babor and Judit Ward, in a recent issue of Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs The […]
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Diversity in peer review: the results are in20 January 2019A survey of 391 members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) community has revealed that diversity and inclusion are important in peer review, particularly in terms of area of […]
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Guidance needed about trustworthy publishing outlets20 January 2019The preliminary results from a survey conducted in September 2018 by the Think. Check. Submit. initiative have been published on the OASPA wesite. Think.Check.Submit is an educational initiative to help […]
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A new measure to rank and rate academic reviewers18 January 2019Bianchi and colleagues have created the F3-index to measure the contribution of reviewers to scholarly journals in terms of report delivery time, length of the report, and alignment of recommendations […]
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Updated glossary of terms on gender bias17 January 2019In The BMJ Christmas issue, Esther K Choo (Oregon Health and Science University, USA) and Robert F DeMayo (VA Portland Health Care System, USA) give us additions to the glossary […]
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Registered reports and null findings11 January 2019Image credit: Steve Ritter/Yang Ku/C&EN One proposed solution to publication bias, whereby studies with ‘negative results’ are not published, is to register (and peer review) protocols before the study is […]
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Funders’ ORCID open letter11 January 2019A group of research funders has published an open letter in support of ORCID, the system of persistent identifiers for researchers. The letter complements a 2016 open letter by publishers […]
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Trakya University symposium summary7 January 2019In December, EASE President Pippa Smart, Past President Ana Marušić, and council member Cem Uzun conducted a symposium at Trakya University, Turkey on the wide-ranging subject of how to become […]
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Most popular ESE articles in December6 January 2019In our monthly look at the top five most read papers from our journal European Science Editing, we have three from our current issue, published in November; Ksenija Baždarić‘s editorial […]