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Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.
As I was thinking about casting my vote for the Open Science Prize, I realized that I would in fact need a rubric for choosing. I was concerned that the public vote would tend towards popularity, familiarity, or bling, rather than the quality of the open science. But what does it mean to be “quality open science?” What should be the most important criteria?
A roundup of the top trending online tools of 2016 that were most appreciated and used by the LabWorm community.
A joint guide by the CNRS and the French Conference of University Presidents.
This January will not only mark a new year but a new administration and with that over 4000 new presidential appointees across the federal government. One appointment that has the potential to either hinder or benefit the biomedical research community is that of the director of the National Institutes of Health.
Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.
Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data. This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.
Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.
French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
A preliminary analysis of the new Elsevier's CiteScore journal metric.
Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.
A document that sets out the proposals of the four UK higher education funding bodies for the second Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the assessment of research in UK higher education institutions. The proposals seek to build on the first REF conducted in 2014, and to incorporate the principles identified in Lord Stern’s Independent Review of the REF.
Part one of a longitudinal study over three years about the behaviour of researchers under 35 who have yet to achieve established or tenured positions.
OpenCon Berlin was one of numorous satellite events that took place after the main OpenCon 2016 conference that happened earlier this November in Washington, DC. It was organzied by OpenAIRE, ScienceOpen and Digital Science in cooperation with the Computer and Media Service of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
Today, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce at the NAS announced the formation of a 16-person committee to work on the Next Generation of Researchers study. This study was commissioned by the U.S. Congress in the fiscal 2016 omnibus appropriations package that passed in December 2015.
PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience than bioRxiv, but bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences.
A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.
The quality of scientific publications will benefit from a revolution in the peer review models.
Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.
iCite allows users ti upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest, optionally grouping them for comparison. It then displays the number of articles, articles per year, citations per year, and Relative Citation Ratio, a field-normalized metric that shows the citation impact of one or more articles relative to the average NIH-funded paper.
