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The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
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The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The New Configuration of Metrics, Rules, and Guidelines Creates a Disturbing Ambiguity in Academia
The bibliometric system and the rules which accompany it have created an environment in which many if not most researchers can be identified as transgressors.
What Does the Future Hold for Academic Books?
Between August 2014 and September 2016, the Academic Book of the Future Project, initiated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library, explored the current and future status of the traditional academic monograph.
Me, Myself, and I: Self-Citation Rates Are Higher in Individualist Cultures Than in Collectivist Cultures
Me, Myself, and I: Self-Citation Rates Are Higher in Individualist Cultures Than in Collectivist Cultures
Authors from western, individualist cultures are more likely to use many self-citations than authors from more collectivist cultures.
Opening up the Black Box of Peer Review
Liz Allen looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
Citations Are Not Enough
Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media.
Reflections on Open Research – a PI's Perspective
Interviewing Dr David Savage.
FAIR Is Not Fair Enough
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
Microsoft Academic Is on the Verge of Becoming a Bibliometric Superpower
Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.
The ResearchGate Score: A Good Example of a Bad Metric
A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.
A Closer Look at the Sci-Hub Corpus
Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.
Unattractive People Are Seen As Better Scientists
Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.
The Crowd and the Cloud
The role and the impact of citizen science in today’s world.
Five Reasons Blog Posts Are of Higher Scientific Quality Than Journal Articles
Open data, code, materials and other reasons make blog posts score better on some core scientific values.
What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
What Are the Barriers to Post-Publication Peer Review?
Post-publication peer review emerged in response to increased calls for continuous moderation of the published research literature.
Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition
Protocols.io Tools for PLOS Authors: Reproducibility and Recognition
PLOS now partners directly with protocols.io to provide authors better ways to share methodological details about their work, practical tools to reduce wasted research efforts and persistent, citable identifiers for laboratory methods.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets
Because sharing underlying data is essential for accelerating scientific advances and maximizing the value of research.
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
Following the Success of the Learning Technologist, Is It Time for a Research Equivalent?
With so many scholarly communications tools and technologies now available, how do academics decide which are most appropriate for their research?
Defining Open Science Definitions
The scope of open science and the variety of actors involved make it not realistic, and even counterproductive, to expect there to be, now or in the future, one definition of open science that fits all.
Google Scholar Is a Serious Alternative to Web of Science
Many bibliometricians and university administrators remain wary of Google Scholar citation data, preferring “the gold standard” of Web of Science instead.
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
A Year of Price Bargaining, Preprints, and a Pirate
Very informative and In-depth annual open access roundup.
Five Minutes With John Holmwood and Martin Eve
Discussing the Future of Academic Publishing.
Academic labour markets in Europe vary widely in openness and job security
Having examined the organisation of Europe’s academic labour markets, Alexandre Afonso outlines the main differences between countries across the continent. There is greatest variance in two …
Why I Still Won’t Review For or Publish With Elsevier–And Think You Shouldn’t Either
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
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