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Biomedical Editors survey on peer review.12 November 2018A new project from the MiRoR research group is investigating the perspectives of biomedical editors and authors on the quality of peer-review reports. The goal of the survey is to inform the development of a new tool to assess the quality of a peer-review report in biomedical research. Due to the focus of this project, […]
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IJRM Editorial: Reflections on the review process6 November 2018An excellent editorial in the International Journal of Research in Marketing has been written by outgoing editor Roland T. Rust offering advice to Editors and future Editors of journals. The editorial is aimed at the journal’s immediate community of marketing researchers, but the six observations and four recommendations detailed are applicable to editors in every […]
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IUMRS Survey on the Evolution of Scientific Publishing4 November 2018The International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) has launched a survey on the Evolution of Scientific Publishing, and have requested we circulate it to our members, colleagues and beyond. We have completed this survey ourselves, and are very happy to endorse the aims and scope of this project. IUMRS is a member of the […]
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Use of appropriate language in medical writing2 November 2018A review paper published in 2017 in Public Health by six scientific organizations for addiction medicine calls on medical journals to ensure that terminology is always neutral, precise and respectful, and avoids negative wording. Because appropriate terminology may vary between cultures and regions and over time, it is important that communities establish their own consensus […]
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Most popular ESE articles in October2 November 2018It is time once again, for our monthly look at the top five most read papers from our journal European Science Editing. In the top read list for October we have articles dating back over several years, including an Essay on statistical mistakes in biomedical journals from WAME president at the time, Farrokh Habibzadeh, two […]
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PubMet 2018 Presentations31 October 2018All presentations, posters, the book of abstracts and photo gallery from PUBMET2018 are available on the website. Sessions included Vanessa Proudman from SPARC Europe speaking about modifying payments for open infrastructure; Jon Tennant (Open Science MOOC) discussing the fundamental and motivating principles for open science; Gareth O’Neill (Leiden University) speaking on open science for early […]
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A peer review card exchange game30 October 2018Published in European Science Editing issue 44(3), a card game for instigating discussion around the ethical practices of peer review, for general training or developing specific peer reviewers skills. The article has background info on the development of the game, and suggestions for how to play it, plus a pdf download of all the cards. […]
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SAGER Guidelines in the Lancet29 October 2018Shirin Heidari and Vivienne C Bachelet have published a Lancet comment article titled “Sex and gender analysis for better science and health equity“, reinforcing their work with the EASE Gender Policy Committee, stating that gender equity in health can only be reached through gender responsive research and public health response. The article calls for journal […]
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Open Science by Design24 October 2018Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research is a concensus study report, undertaken by the National Academies of Sciences. To evaluate more fully the benefits and challenges of broadening access to the results of scientific research, described as “open science,” the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine appointed an expert […]
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2018 Global State of Peer Review report released23 October 2018The Global State of Peer Review report, summarising data from a survey of 11,000 international researchers as well as data from Web of Science, ScholarOne, and Publons, presents the state of peer review worldwide, combining quantitative and qualitative data for this very thorough breakdown of the peer review landscape. The report asked four key questions; Who […]
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ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing23 October 2018Code Ocean won the 2018 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Award for Innovation in Publishing. The cloud-based computational reproducibility platform allows researchers to share, find, and run published code. Development of the platform was inspired by the challenge of accessing, understanding, and reproducing code, analysis, and algorithms needed to build on existing research. […]
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CrossRef hits 100 million23 October 2018CrossRef has taken a deep-dive into what makes up their 100 million content records. 74% are articles, 15% books, 5% conference papers, and 4% is data, reports, standards and dissertations, and preprints and peer reviews. 69 million records have full-text links, more than 31 million have license information, and more than 3 million have funding […]
