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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 and demonstrates public commitment to ORCID, as well as noting that funders could do more to support the initiative. As of January 2019, ten funders […]
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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 successful authors & editors of scientific journals. A summary of the event is up on our website, and can be found here.
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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 on questionnaire structure, the viewpoint on medical writers Joint Position Statement, and an original article addressing journals’ guidelines about title, abstract and keywords. In addition […]
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2019 editions of EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators19 December 2018The 2019 editions of our EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English have been published, and are now available from the EASE website In the new versions we have made 3 important improvements: an added sentence encouraging all authors to register for an ORCID iD (on page e2), […]
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CZI Announces Support for protocols.io18 December 2018The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced its support for protocols.io, an open access resource that allows researchers to discover and share up-to-date science methods. All CZI Science Request for Proposals (RFAs) require rapid sharing of community resources via open source repositories, among them protocols.io. CZI’s support furthers their commitment to open science, saving researchers time […]
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Glossary of open access jargon17 December 2018Is your article platinum or universal, gold or born, green or secondary, or hybrid? Open Book Publishers have curated a simple list of definitions of open access jargon, highlighting overlapping terms, and reinforcing the purpose of open access publishing: to make information as widely available as possible, with as few restrictions as possible. Photo by […]
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6th World Conference on Research Integrity programme details17 December 2018The WCRI is the largest and most significant international conference on research integrity. Since the first conference in Lisbon in 2007 it has given researchers, teachers, funding agencies, government officials, journal editors, senior administrators, and research students opportunities to share experiences and to discuss and promote integrity in research. The 6th World Conference on Research […]
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Can reporting guidelines help journals do better?15 December 2018In a new editorial in BMC Medicine, David Moher asks whether reporting guidelines can help journals do better. He suggests that if journals embraced auditing of the quality of articles they publish, through the use of established reporting guidelines, it would give them and their readers essential feedback through which several improvements could be made. […]
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Emojis in articles? It’s the BMJ’s Christmas issue!14 December 2018The BMJ has an annual tradition of publishing a light-hearted article during the festive period. This year Vikas O’Reilly-Shah, Grant Lynde, and Craig Jabaley ask whether it’s time to start using emojis in biomedical research articles. Judging from Table 1 in the paper, it’s a suggestion that has potential! O’Reilly-Shah Vikas N, Lynde Grant C, […]
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Taylor & Francis relaunch Editor Resources13 December 2018Taylor & Francis have redesigned and relaunched their Editor Resources website. The platform was developed as a hub of information and resources to support journal editors, structured around the key aspects of the editor’s role: Content development, Editorial board, Ethics, Journal visibility, Peer review, and Research metrics. The new site features easily navigable sections, a […]
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Retractionwatch launches searcheable database12 December 2018 Retraction Watch, the blog that has been reporting new and providing information on retractions in scientific literature since 2010, recently launched the Retraction Watch Database. The database currently features details of over 18,000 retractions, most importantantly the reasons for retraction, and is searchable by author, article title, doi number, publisher, journal name, URL, and […]
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The F3-index: an evaluation algorithm for peer reviewers12 December 2018The latest paper to emerge from the PEERE peer review project has been published, open access, in Journal of Informetrics. Preliminary versions were presented at the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, in March 2018 and subsequent meetings. The F3-index. Valuing reviewers for scholarly journals, by Federico Bianchi, Francisco Grimaldo, and EASE Council member Flaminio […]
