Preprints Are Not Going to Replace Journals
At a recent meeting, a debate was held on the motion: Preprints are going to replace journals. The author was asked to oppose the motion and this post is based on their arguments.
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Of Brown M&M's and Publishing in Academic Journals
Why did a certain band eliminate brown M&M's from their dressing room? And what does that have to do with the formatting requirements at some journals? This article explains.
Journal Impact Factor Gets a Sibling That Adjusts for Scientific Field
But critics worry the metrics remain prone to misuse.
What's Wrong with Paying for Peer Review?
Lots of things are wrong with paying for peer review.
Introducing a Novelty Indicator for Scientific Research: Validating the Knowledge-Based Combinatorial Approach
Introducing a Novelty Indicator for Scientific Research: Validating the Knowledge-Based Combinatorial Approach
In this study, a novelty indicator to quantify the degree of citation similarity between a focal paper and a pre-existing same-domain paper from various fields in the natural sciences is applied by proposing a new way of identifying papers that fall into the same domain of focal papers using bibliometric data only.
ELife Announces New Approach to Publishing in Medicine
By bringing rigorous review and editorial oversight to clinical preprints, eLife hopes to make peer-reviewed preprints a currency of trust in medicine.
Scientific Publishing Needs to Embrace the Rapid Correction
Scientific publishing needs to stop treating error-checking as a slightly inconvenient side note and make it a core part of academic research.
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
Hundreds of Gibberish Papers Still Lurk in the Scientific Literature
The nonsensical computer-generated articles, spotted years after the problem was first seen, could lead to a wave of retractions.
Frosty Reception for Algorithm That Predicts Research Papers' Impact
A mathematical model designed to forecast the success of biotechnology papers has drawn criticism from researchers.
Research Lobbies Lock Horns with Science Publishers over Open Access
Research Lobbies Lock Horns with Science Publishers over Open Access
Nearly 900 universities, research organisations, and funding agencies want science publishers to be more transparent and abide by open access rules, after scientists complained their submissions are rejected if they apply a public copyright licence to accepted manuscripts.
Research Findings That Are Probably Wrong Cited Far More Than Robust Ones
Academics suspect that papers with grabby conclusions are waved through more easily by reviewers.
Scientific Publishing Is a Joke
An "XKCD" comic and its many remixes perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research.
Comparison of Preprints and Final Journal Publications from COVID-19 Studies
Comparison of Preprints and Final Journal Publications from COVID-19 Studies
A comparison of preprints and their final journal publications show discrepancies in results reporting and spins in interpretation.
To Boldly Grow: Five New Journals Shaped by Open Science
Announcing the launch of five new journals, all addressing global health and environmental challenges and rooted in the full values of Open Science.
Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing
This post explores how scholarly publishing should relate to scholarly communication. Ostensibly aligned, publishing and communication have diverged. Some processes involved in scholarly publishing are getting in the way of optimal scholarly communication, as the present pandemic amply reveals.
ELife Latest: Authors Can Now Submit a Manuscript to the Journal and MedRxiv at the Same Time
ELife Latest: Authors Can Now Submit a Manuscript to the Journal and MedRxiv at the Same Time
As eLife transitions to exclusively reviewing preprints, we have integrated medRxiv into our submission process for the rapid sharing of new medical research.
When Your Journal Reads You
Renke Siems on user tracking on science publisher platforms, its implications for their individual users and ways to face this issue
Why Researchers Created a Database of Half a Million Journal Editors
Why Researchers Created a Database of Half a Million Journal Editors
Tracking how factors such as biases and conflicts of interest creep into editorial boards requires better data.
Investigating the Division of Scientific Labor Using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy
Investigating the Division of Scientific Labor Using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy
Paper analyzes how research contributions are divided across research teams, focusing on the association between division of labor and number of authors, and authors’ position and specific contributions by using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).
A Guide to Plan S: the Open-access Initiative Shaking Up Science Publishing
A Guide to Plan S: the Open-access Initiative Shaking Up Science Publishing
The push to remove journal paywalls officially started this year. Here's how it works.
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals
Why I Won't Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals
This author asks: Can scientists who are so meticulous in preparing their papers and so generous with their time in reviewing them for free not find better ways to advance science than relying on profiteering journals?
Publishers Care About the Version of Record, Do Researchers?
Study of researchers indicates that a preprint or accepted manuscript can substitute for the version of record in some use cases but not all.
CODECHECK: an Open Science Initiative
An Open Science initiative for the independent execution of computations underlying research articles during peer review to improve reproducibility.
How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?
How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets?
Global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets - the truth we found in the gap between perception and reality
Track and Manage Your Public Access Mandates
Today, we are adding a Public access section to Scholar profiles to help you track and manage public access mandates for your articles.
The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn out Sham Science
The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn out Sham Science
Some publishers say they are battling industrialized cheating. A Nature analysis examines the 'paper mill' problem - and how editors are trying to cope.
Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals’ Editorial Board Positions
Editormetrics analyse the role of editors of academic journals and their impact on the scientific publication system. However, such analyses would best rely on open, structured and machine-readable data on editors and editorial boards, whose availability still remains rare.
Who is Camille Noûs, the Fictitious French Researcher with Nearly 200 Papers?
Who is Camille Noûs, the Fictitious French Researcher with Nearly 200 Papers?
A group of mathematicians invents a fictional researcher as a form of protest, but ethicists argue that the campaign is misguided.
The Biggest Big Deal
The newly announced California/Elsevier transformative agreement will test the financial sustainability and the financial desirability of the multi-payer model.
OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings
From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organisations undertook a large-scale study on open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as "OA diamond journals". This study was commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding of the OA diamond landscape.
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