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.
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A checklist for fMRI acquisition methods reporting in the literature
I 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 ItOpen: evolution and revolution in science
The 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 ItThe Treason of The Editors - How Scientific Journal Editors Changed Sides
A 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 ItScience: The Pursuit of The Truth Complicated by The Pursuit of Mortgages.
How 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, ...
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What Happened When We Tried To Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
How 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...
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The Peters & Ceci Study of Journal Publications
How 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 ItIs There Value in Training Scientific Generalists For Positions at the Edge of Academia?
Contemporary 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 ItTraining Scientific Generalists: Response to Comments and Additional Thoughts
In 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 ItUnconditional data sharing, plus peer review transparency, is key to research reproducibility
This 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 ItHow do we ensure that research is reproducible?
TS 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 ItA brief survey on peer review in scholarly communication
Intro 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 ItReproducibility: does it really matter?
If 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 ItDogmatism and the Scientific Process: A Need for Change
Despite 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 ItThe peer review process for biomedical research project grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia .
In 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: The Bigger Picture
Preprints 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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