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Now flowing: new open peer review workflow23 October 2018Transparent publication of an article’s entire peer review process: that’s the promise of the new scalable peer review workflow resulting from the latest Wiley and Clarivate Analytics partnership. The workflow makes use of Clarivate’s ScholarOne and Publons platforms and will be first used on the Wiley journal Clinical Genetics. The initial review and response, revision, […]
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The 5th STM Report An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing23 October 2018The STM Report An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf The International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has launched the 50th anniversary edition of ‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing’ (2018). The report provides authoritative coverage of all aspects of journal publishing, including market size and statistics, […]
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SpotOn 2018: Open Research22 October 2018SpotOn London returns on Saturday 3rd November for another one day conference at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. Hosted by BMC the event will once again push the boundaries of science communication and policy with the theme of Open Research – Why do it? How do you do it? And what happens when you […]
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Most popular ESE articles in September22 October 2018Here’s our monthly look back at the top five most read papers from our journal European Science Editing in the month of September. Interslavic: a new option for scientific publishing?Issue: 44(3) August 2018. ViewpointErik Tihelkahttp://europeanscienceediting.eu/articles/interslavic-a-new-option-for-scientific-publishing/No Abstract The art of reviewing journal articles and its advantages for reviewers Issue: 44(1) February 2018. EssaysGaurav Sainihttp://europeanscienceediting.eu/articles/the-art-of-reviewing-journal-articles-and-its-advantages-for-reviewers/AbstractPeer-review is one […]
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Early careers researchers and publishers16 October 2018An article in ALPSP journal Learned Publishing, released earlier this year, looks at the opinions of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) towards publishing. The paper is based on a series of interviews conducted by the CIBER research group, and provides analysis of changing attitudes. ECRs are the key researchers of the future, millennials born between 1982 […]
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Transparency of retracting16 October 2018Most article retractions are due to misconduct, but about 20% are retracted because of an unintentional error or methodological flaw. In a free-access article in The Lancet, Tea Marasović, Ana Utrobiĉić and Ana Maruŝić highlight a method which several journals have begun using to credit the correction of an honest error, by republishing a corrected […]
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Reviewing Manuscripts: A Systematic Approach12 October 2018EASE is a champion of education on all kinds of editorial and research practices, and none are more currently prominent than training in peer review. An article in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologyprovides guidance for its’ readers on this topic, as well as an Editorial in the journal which celebrates peer reviewers and […]
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Quality Open Access Market11 October 2018Quality Open Access Market (QOAM) is a website which invites authors to score journals, providing feedback on review and decision experiences in a central platform which can be referenced by all researchers. The site was founded in 2012 by two volunteers, Leo Waaijers and Saskia de Vries, and has been growing steadily. There are currently […]
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EASE EVENTS: How to become successful authors and editors10 October 2018On 4-6 December 2018, a joint symposium will be hosted between EASE and Trakya University, at the university in Edirine, Turkey. The event will provide lecture, and a practical forum to discuss ways in which individuals, journals and departments, can become successful authors and editors and help influence and improve their communities. The event will […]
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6th World Conference on Research Integrity8 October 2018The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity will be held in Hong Kong, June 2-5, 2019. The call for abstracts closes on 15th October, registration is now open, and travel grants are available. The 6th WCRI event will explore the application of new research findings across areas to develop new and better solutions to address […]
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Polka in Nature on publishing peer reviews7 October 2018In a Nature Comment, Executive Director of ASAPbio, Jessica K. Polka and colleagues call on journals to sign a pledge to make reviewers’ anonymous comments part of the official scientific record. Illustration by David Parkins The article defines peer review and versions of what ‘open’ review can mean, discusses barriers to wide-spread adoption of the […]
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Post-publication peer review5 October 2018In a preprint published to the LIS Scholarship Archive, Karen Shashok and Valerie Matarese present arguments for why it is proving difficult to publish post-publication peer review (PPPR). Editorial communications are sometimes not as helpful as they should be, online manuscript management systems are often complicated and sometimes confusing, and article processing charges (APCs) can […]
