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B – Rewarding reviewers22 June 2016Warne V. Rewarding reviewers – sense or sensibility? A Wiley study explained. Learned Publishing 2016;29(1):41-50 In July 2015, Wiley surveyed over 170,000 researchers in order to explore peer reviewing experience; […]
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B – What makes a good policy paper22 June 2016Whitty JM. What makes an academic paper useful for health policy? BMC Medicine 2015;13:301(doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0544-8) Getting relevant science and research into policy is essential. There are several barriers, but the […]
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B – Post-publication peer review22 June 2016Teixeira da Silva A, Dobránszki J. Problems with traditional science publishing and finding a wider niche for post-publication peer review. Accountability in Research2015;22(1):22-40(doi: 10.1080/08989621.2014.899909) Errors in the literature, incorrect findings, […]
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B – OA and knowledge translation22 June 2016Adisesh A, Whiting A. Power to the people – open access publishing and knowledge translation. Occupational Medicine 2016;66:264-265(doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqv191) This Editorial attempts to demystify the rights and wrongs of self-archiving and […]
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B – Rule violations22 June 2016Gächter S, Schulz JF. Intrinsec honesty and the prevalence of rule violations across societies. Nature 2016;531:496-499(doi: 10.1038/nature17160)The authors present cross-societal experiments from 23 countries around the world that demonstrate a […]
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B – Sharing clinical trial data17 June 2016Taichman DB, Backus J, Baethge C, et al. Sharing clinical trial data. A proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. JAMA February 2, 2016;315(5):467-468 The International Committee of […]
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B – Statistical reporting errors in psychology17 June 2016Nuijten MB, Hartgerink CHJ, van Assen MALM, et al. The prevalence of statistical reporting errors in psychology (1985-2013). Behavior Research Methods 2015:1-22(doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0664-2) This study documents reporting errors in a […]
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B – Public registry of competing interests17 June 2016Dunn AG. Set up a public registry of competing interests. Nature 2016 May 5;533(7601):9. (doi: 10.1038/533009a2016) According to the author, publishing system for disclosing competing interests is still fragmented, inconsistent […]
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B – Reviewer fatigue?17 June 2016Breuning M, Backstrom J, Brannon J, et al. Reviewer fatigue? Why scholars decline to review their peers’ work. PS: Political Science & Politics 2015;48(4):595-600.(doi: 10.1017/S1049096515000827) The double-blind peer review process […]
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B – OA publishing trend analysis17 June 2016Poltronieri E, Bravo E, Curti M, et al. Open access publishing trend analysis: statistics beyond the perception. Information Research 2016;21(2), paper 712. This analysis aimed to track the number of […]
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B – Gender analysis in health system research16 June 2016Morgan R, George A, Ssali S, et al. How to do (or not to do)…gender analysis in health system research. Health Policy and Planning 2016;1-10(doi: 10.1093/heapol/czw037) The article outlines what […]
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B – The Flesch Reading Ease measure16 June 2016Hartley J. Is time up for the Flesch measure of reading ease? Scientometrics 2016;107(3):1523-26(doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-1920-7) The Flesch Reading Ease measure is widely used to measure the difficulty of text in […]
