Reviewing for open science
I’ve recently signed the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (PRO). Here are some thoughts on why, and more generally on how we as reviewers can have a positive impact on science.
Read ItI’ve recently signed the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative (PRO). Here are some thoughts on why, and more generally on how we as reviewers can have a positive impact on science.
Read ItI present a checklist of acquisition parameters for inclusion in the methods section of an fMRI paper. The current list expands and updates the list that was given in the 2008 paper from Poldrack e...
Read ItThe first academic journal was created by Henry Oldenburg (1619--1677), first Secretary of the Royal Society. Rather than wait years for scientists to publish their findings in books, Oldenburg wan...
Read ItA brief account of the Medical Hypotheses Affair may be found here: http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-affair-times-higher.html But there is one general aspect which ...
Read ItHow we can align open communication seen on blogs with career-advancement garnered from publications. Three key aspects of scholarly communication need to be made available for bloggers: 1) DOIs, ...
Read ItHow is it that a paper that could not get published had the fourth highest reported Altmetric score for all scientific contributions in 2013 (Liu 2014)? This contribution to the Grain has t...
Read ItHow the project was initiated. In 1978, one of us (SJC) was a newly hired assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Dakota, and the other one us (DPP) was in his fourt...
Read ItContemporary scientific research faces major cultural and institutional hurdles. Some of the primary challenges include an exploding knowledge base and organizational complexity of many scientific ...
Read ItIn several recent articles, I proposed the creation of new graduate programs aimed at training scientific generalists. Here, I collect and respond to a number of comments and criticisms raised in...
Read ItThis is the shorted version of an article I published on 28.04.2016 on my site, For Better Science. Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of...
Read ItTS Eliot predicted the current corruption of science by pervasive dishonesty of motive and communication when he described characteristic modern Men: They constantly try to escape/ From the darkne...
Read ItIntro Peer review, the process by which subject experts evaluate a piece of work, is an integral part of scholarly publishing. In most cases peer review is coordinated by an editor at a scholarl...
Read ItIf science were perfect, there would be nothing left to explore or critique. So, irreproducible science serves two functions: to scientists, it represents an opportunity to improve or discover new ...
Read ItDespite science being a beacon of innovation, invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
Read ItIn Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the biomedical research agency, equivalent to the NIH in the US, the ANR in France or the CIHR in Canada that distributes t...
Read ItPreprints have become a popular topic of conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into b...
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