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Top Tips to Make Your Research Irreproducible

Top Tips to Make Your Research Irreproducible

It is an unfortunate convention of science that research should pretend to be reproducible; our top tips will help you mitigate this fussy conventionality, enabling you to enthusiastically showcase your irreproducible work.

Seven Things Every Researcher Should Know About Scholarly Publishing

Seven Things Every Researcher Should Know About Scholarly Publishing

After many and long conversations among colleagues within and beyond the Scholarly Kitchen about what researchers need to know about scholarly publishing.

Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.

Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production.

Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research…

Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached

Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached

Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached.

The Downside of Scale for Journal Publishers: Quality Control and Filtration

The Downside of Scale for Journal Publishers: Quality Control and Filtration

Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?

Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce — Age of Awareness

Academic Publishing is a Goddamned Exploitative Farce — Age of Awareness

Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.