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Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing

Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing

No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article addresses key questions about this critical aspect of the peer review submission process.

The Dos and Don'ts of Influencing Policy: a Systematic Review of Advice to Academics

The Dos and Don'ts of Influencing Policy: a Systematic Review of Advice to Academics

Many academics have strong incentives to influence policymaking, but may not know where to start. Recent research has examined the ‘how to’ advice in the academic peer-reviewed and grey literatures.

The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How Does a New Generation of Researchers Perceive Sci-Hub?

The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How Does a New Generation of Researchers Perceive Sci-Hub?

How do early career researchers use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site.

India's Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'

India's Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'

India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-time Science After First Child

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-time Science After First Child

Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.

Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'

Machine Learning 'Causing Science Crisis'

Techniques used to analyse data are producing misleading and often wrong results, critics say.

Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

Social science has an image problem - too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

COMPare: a Prospective Cohort Study Correcting and Monitoring 58 Misreported Trials in Real Time

COMPare: a Prospective Cohort Study Correcting and Monitoring 58 Misreported Trials in Real Time

This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences

COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences

With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.

"Blacklists" and "Whitelists" to Tackle Predatory Publishing: A Cross-Sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis

"Blacklists" and "Whitelists" to Tackle Predatory Publishing: A Cross-Sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis

Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its market characteristics, the defining attributes of fraudulent journals remain controversial. The authors aimed to develop a better understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analysing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria. 

Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones

Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones

According to a study of 628 awards given over five decades, men still win the most prestigious scientific prizes.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Current efforts to make research more accessible and transparent can reinforce inequality within STEM professions.