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Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge broker organisation, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.
One way to push back against the pressure to “publish or perish” is to randomly audit a small proportion of researchers and take time to assess their research in detail. Auditors could examine complex measures of quality which no metric could ever capture such as originality, reproducibility, and research translation.
A short list of seven functionalities that academic publishers looking to modernize their operations might invest in; from unencumbered access and improved social components, to dynamic data visualisations and more precise hyperlinking.
Some thoughts on how to approach writing manuscripts based on original biomedical research.
Research impact is often talked about, but how clear is it what this term really means? The authors highlight four core elements that comprise most research impact definitions and propose a new conceptualisation of research impact relevant to health policy.
In a profession rewarding productivity in the form of papers and grants, sitting down to deeply read journal articles can feel like wasted time. Professor logs every paper she read over multiple years to gain insight on personal research practices.
The Neuroskeptic commentary on a new paper by Chris Drummond about the ‘reproducibility movement’. Assuming that what really matters is the testability of a given hypothesis, how fundamental is reproducibility to science?
Incentives for “Open”, perception as additional work and lack of training, and diversity and inclusivity.
The San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment moves into a global phase of action with community support.
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Of all 956,050,193 references from journal articles stored at Crossref, 32.00% are from journal articles published by Elsevier, none of which are in the Crossref “Open” category, freely available for others to use.
SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.
Comparing Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID.
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform.
The profit motive is fundamentally misaligned with core values of academic life, potentially corroding ideals like unfettered inquiry, knowledge-sharing, and cooperative progress.
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.
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.
Authors from western, individualist cultures are more likely to use many self-citations than authors from more collectivist cultures.
Liz Allen looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
Academic promotion panels must take into account a scholar’s presence in popular media.
Interviewing Dr David Savage.
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
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.
A significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor.
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.
Good looking, sociable people don’t make good scientists, according to popular stereotypes.
The role and the impact of citizen science in today’s world.
Open data, code, materials and other reasons make blog posts score better on some core scientific values.
