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Publishing gendered system15 June 2018Lundine J, Bourgeault IL, Clark J, et al. The gendered system of academic publishing. The Lancet 2018;391(10132):1754-56(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30950-4) Despite growing numbers of women in the research workforce, most authors, peer reviewers, and editors at academic journals are men. This leads to a women’s underrepresentation and disadvantage in other areas of the scientific enterprise. Women receive […]
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B – A new taxonomy of retractions and corrections15 June 2018Fanelli D, Ioannidis JPA, Goodman S. Improving the integrity of published science: An expanded taxonomy of retractions and corrections. European Journal of Clinical Investigation 2018;48(4):e12898(doi: 10.1111/eci.12898) Journal practices for amending publications offer too little incentives for authors and editors to correct or retract articles when errors have been made. The authors present a a unique […]
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Preproducibility15 June 2018Stark PB. Before reproducibility must come preproducibility. Nature 2018 May 24(doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05256-0) Most papers fail to report many aspects of an experiment or an analysis that are crucial to understanding the result and its limitations, and to repeating the work. The author proposes a new neologism, “preproducibility”, meaning that an experiment or analysis is preproducible […]
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Conference newsletters uploaded14 June 2018The Poenaru Post is the daily newsletter accompanying the 14th EASE Conference, printed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a digital-only edition on Monday following the conference, to summarise the final day. Our newsletter is named after Petrache Poenaru, the physicist inventor who created the fountain pen after making an ink reservoir from a swan’s quill […]
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Conference newsletters uploaded14 June 2018The Poenaru Post is the daily newsletter accompanying the 14th EASE Conference, printed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with a digital-only edition on Monday following the conference, to summarise the final day. Our newsletter is named after Petrache Poenaru, the physicist inventor who created the fountain pen after making an ink reservoir from a swan’s quill […]
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B – Journal identity theft8 June 2018Cochran A. Paper accepted… unless the letter was forged. The Scholarly Kitchen 2018 Apr 18 The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has become aware of seven fake acceptance letters for its journals over the last five years. Someone promised acceptance in a journal and misrepresented a relationship with ASCE. Also a certain number of […]
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B – Experimental philosophy8 June 2018Colombo M, Duev G, Nuijten MB, et al. Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental philosophy. PLOS One 2018 Apr 22(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194360) Experimental philosophy (x-phi) is a young field of research in the intersection of philosophy and psychology. This article investigated the prevalence of statistical reporting errors in x-phi. Results showed that the rates of inconsistencies in […]
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B – Anonimity in scientific publishing8 June 2018Roediger HL. Anonimity in scientific publishing. Observer 2018;31(4) Is there room for anonymous manuscript submissions and reviews in the era of transparency in science? In this article, the Past President of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) provides some insights in publication practices. Anonymous submission helps researchers who are starting out giving them a shot at […]
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B – Journal selection criteria8 June 2018Wijewickrema M, Petras V. Journal selection criteria in an open access environment: A comparison between the medicine and social sciences. Learned Publishing 2017;30(4)(doi: 10.1002/leap.1113) This study compares 16 factors that influence journal choices between medicine and social sciences using the answers given to a global survey of 235 open access journal authors. The results reveal that […]
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B – Do physicians read medical journals?5 June 2018Packer M. Does anyone read medical journals anymore? Medpage Today 2018 March 28 In the past physicians kept up with the medical literature. But today dutifully physicians just click on the table of contents, and spend less than 30 seconds perusing the titles and rarely click on actual paper. Much of the literature is replete […]
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B – Analysis on peer review research5 June 2018Grimaldo F, Marušić A, Squazzoni F. Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015). PLOS ONE 2018 Feb 21(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193148) This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. The most prolific and influential scholars, the most cited publications and the […]
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B – Open access to bibliographic references5 June 2018Shotton D. Funders should mandate open citations. Nature 2018 Jan 9 Analyses of citations can reveal how scientific knowledge develops over time and illuminate patterns of authorship. Such information is essential for assessing scholars’ influence and making wise decisions about research investment. Bibliographic databases and citation indices are also crucial to individual reasearchers to find […]
