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Social Media, Science and MOOCs23 January 2018An article published in FEMS Microbiology Letters reviews the use of Twitter as a tool for scientists to “increase their personal brand, improve their skills, enhance their visibility, share and communicate science to society, promote scientific culture, and even as a tool for teaching and learning” The authors assess their experiences of using Twitter as […]
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New APA Reporting Standards22 January 2018Following a review of existing reporting standards, the American Psychological Association has published a paper which sets out revisions to existing standards, and adding new sets which address current positions and knowledge. Changes to existing standards have been made to the meta-analysis section, and in the hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions, dividing them into 3 groupings […]
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New APA Reporting Standards22 January 2018Following a review of existing reporting standards, the American Psychological Association has published a paper which sets out revisions to existing standards, and adding new sets which address current positions and knowledge. Changes to existing standards have been made to the meta-analysis section, and in the hypotheses, analyses, and conclusions, dividing them into 3 groupings […]
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Taylor & Francis to pay reviewers in fast track publishing service21 January 2018Providing authors with faster peer review and rewarding reviewers for their assistance to publishers in achieving this goal are thorny issues, but one of the large publishers is trying a new initiative. Taylor & Francis have described how their Accelerated Publication service for authors involves payments of $150 to each peer reviewer who submits their […]
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Taylor & Francis to pay reviewers in fast track publishing service21 January 2018Providing authors with faster peer review and rewarding reviewers for their assistance to publishers in achieving this goal are thorny issues, but one of the large publishers is trying a new initiative. Taylor & Francis have described how their Accelerated Publication service for authors involves payments of $150 to each peer reviewer who submits their […]
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More steps towards transparency in research publishing20 January 2018An Editorial published in Nature in September presented some “Steps towards transparency in research publishing” (Nature 2017;549(431), doi: 10.1038/549431a) The Editorial discusses how progress in the transparency of both research and editorial processes is gathering pace, discussing five forms of transparency documented in a project overseen by Malcolm Macleod of the University of Edinburgh. In […]
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More steps towards transparency in research publishing20 January 2018An Editorial published in Nature in September presented some “Steps towards transparency in research publishing” (Nature 2017;549(431), doi: 10.1038/549431a) The Editorial discusses how progress in the transparency of both research and editorial processes is gathering pace, discussing five forms of transparency documented in a project overseen by Malcolm Macleod of the University of Edinburgh. In […]
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B – Cost of science in transition economies15 January 2018Vuong QH. The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies. Nature Human Behaviour 2018;2(1):(doi: 10.1038/s41562-017-0281-4) The perspective paper presents the dilemma that a modern society is facing regarding the demand for ‘better’ cost consideration by scientists, on one hand, and the underestimation of the value that the scientific enterprise contributes to the society, on the […]
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B – Experimenter gender and biases15 January 2018Chapman CC, Benedict C, Schiöth HB. Experimenter gender and replicability in science. Science Advances 2018;4:e1701427(doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1701427)This paper investigates how the gender of the experimenter may affect experimental findings. Clinical trials are regularly carried out without any report of the experimenter’s gender. Significant biases may lead researchers to conclude that therapeutics or other interventions are either […]
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B – Guidelines to publish observational studies4 January 2018Rossi A, Benci C, Leventhal P. Guidelines for disclosing the results from observational trials. Medical Writing 2017;26(3):22-28Publishing results from observational trials can be challenging for scientists and writers. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement was the first guideline developed to identify the minimal information that should be included in articles […]
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B – Behavioral and social sciences research funding4 January 2018Kaplan RM, Johnson SB, Kobor PC. NIH behavioral and social sciences research support: 1980-2016. American Psychologist 2017;72(8):808-821(doi: 10.1037/amp0000222) Behavioral and social science has often been underfunded at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1990, the Senate Appropriations Committee, recognizing that behavior may contribute to about half of all premature deaths, recommended that funding for […]
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B – Transparency in research publishing4 January 2018Editorial. Steps towards transparency in research publishing. Nature 2017;549(431)(doi: 10.1038/549431a) Progress in the transparency of both research and editorial processes is gathering pace. But as these processes become increasingly open, scientists and editors need to be proactive but also alert to risks. Transparency may give rise to different sorts of bias. For example, some authors […]
