Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in 2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
Read ItThe National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
Read ItOSI is a global collaborative effort between major stakeholders in scholarly publishing to improve how research information gets published, shared and accessed. The intiative is a 10-year series of...
Read ItWe’ve come a long way when it comes to sharing and reviewing newly published research in the past few years. The advent of services such as Altmetric (Altmetric.com, 2016a) has opened up a new wind...
Read ItThere is a fundamental problem of imprecise theories in many scientific disciplines. Trying to follow the gravitational wave detection recently reported by the LIGO consortium, it appears that in p...
Read ItMany scientific disciplines find themselves in the midst of a “crisis of confidence,” where key empirical findings turn out to reproduce at an alarmingly low rate [e.g., 1,2,3,4]. The causes for th...
Read ItIt is commonly accepted that there is a crisis of reproducibility in science [1]. But how can this trend be reversed when bibliometrics such as the h-index tend to encourage quantity and increment...
Read It‘There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!’ Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), American Inventor It is without any doubt that the scientific progress of continued inno...
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 ItTo err is human. Scientists being human, they make mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
Read ItBiomedical science is recovering from an existential crisis. Recent reports have highlighted major problems with the reproducibility and reliability of a diverse range of scientific fields, includi...
Read ItThis was originally published as two separate blog posts at my blog: part 1 & part 2. If you’re following the world of academic publishing (and the paywalls that keep researchers from doing t...
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