A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency
Badges that acknowledge open practices significantly increase sharing of reported data and materials, as well as subsequent accessibility, correctness, usability, and completeness.
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Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System
Towards Open Science: The Case for a Decentralized Autonomous Academic Endorsement System
A system of academic endorsement based on blockchain technology would be decoupled from the publication process, which would allow expeditious appraisal of all kinds of scientific output in a transparent manner without relying on any central authority.
Multiple Citation Indicators and Their Composite across Scientific Disciplines
Multiple Citation Indicators and Their Composite across Scientific Disciplines
Citation indicators addressing total impact, co-authorship, and author positions offer complementary insights about impact. This article shows that a composite score including six citation indicators identifies extremely influential scientists better than single indicators.
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production
Examining the forms that division of labor takes across disciplines, the relationships between various types of contributions, as well as the relationships between the contribution types and various indicators of authors’ seniority.
Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea
Michael Eisen recently announced his new website, which features a new publication list that doesn’t mention journal names anywhere.
Putting credit back into the hands of researchers
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
Papers with shorter titles get more citations
Intriguing correlation mined from 140,000 papers.
Is mass authorship destroying the credibility of papers?
The rise in ‘kilo-authors’ and ‘gift authorship’ is causing the academy to rethink how it assesses the worth of academic publications.
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