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'Transformative' Research Unrealistic to Predict, Scientists Tell Granting Agencies

'Transformative' Research Unrealistic to Predict, Scientists Tell Granting Agencies

Asking scientists to attempt to create new paradigms or fields in every proposal is unrealistic and potentially harmful.

The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

The Emergence of a Field: A Network Analysis of Research on Peer Review

This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.

Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People

Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People

1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.

Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?

Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?

Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Should Scientists Be Posting Their Work Online Before Peer Review? 

Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.

LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel

LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel

The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care

Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care

There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.

Computer Programming Languages Can Impact Science and Thought

Computer Programming Languages Can Impact Science and Thought

Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.

The Ig Nobels: The Lighter Side of Scientific Research

The Ig Nobels: The Lighter Side of Scientific Research

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

With the Access Issue Temporarily Solved, What Now?

With the Access Issue Temporarily Solved, What Now?

After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.

Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997–2016)

Lack of Improvement in Scientific Integrity: An Analysis of WoS Retractions by Chinese Researchers (1997–2016)

This study investigated the status quo of article retractions by Chinese researchers.

NPG continues to deceive about OpenAccess

NPG continues to deceive about OpenAccess

I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.

Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

Are Predatory Journals Undermining the Credibility of Science? A Bibliometric Analysis of Citers

An analysis of potential predatory journals as well as potential poor scientific standards journals.

What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research

What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research

As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.

Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform

Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform

Earlier this week, eLife announced a partnership with Coko to build an open source solution for submission, peer review and processing of manuscripts. The limitations of the currently available systems are substantial.

Open Notebook Science as an Emerging Epistemic Culture within the Open Science Movement

Open Notebook Science as an Emerging Epistemic Culture within the Open Science Movement

The paper addresses the concepts and practices of “open notebook science” as an innovation within the contemporary Open Science movement.

Putting Data Before the Carrot

Putting Data Before the Carrot

Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.

The Case for Tracking Self-Citations

The Case for Tracking Self-Citations

As the h-index becomes the standard for measuring researcher impact, the risk for gaming the system grows.

Misuse of Received Manuscripts by Peer Reviewers

Misuse of Received Manuscripts by Peer Reviewers

Trust that reviewers will treat manuscripts received for peer review as confidential communications is an essential tenet of peer review. New results suggest that breaches of this trust do occur.

Should Research Funding Be Distributed Equally Among Scientists?

Should Research Funding Be Distributed Equally Among Scientists?

Instead of making scientists compete for grants based on project proposals, research funding could simply be divided equally among all ‘qualified’ researchers, according to a new paper.

bioRxiv Selects Hypothesis to Enable Annotation on Preprints

bioRxiv Selects Hypothesis to Enable Annotation on Preprints

Hypothesis and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are today announcing the selection of the Hypothesis open source annotation framework for the bioRxiv preprint service as their primary annotation mechanism.