A Review of MegaJournals
One issue that I've been following for a number of years is so called MegaJournals. Mega journal as defined on Wikipedia. Cue ' Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE' which I wrote for th...
Read ItScience and Society
Social Media Tools for Scientists and Building an Online Profile
This presentation will be given at the Janelia Farm Research Campus, a research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The presentation abstract is below. ABSTRACT Despite the availability ...
Read ItInvestigating Impact Metrics for Performance for the US-EPA National Center for Computational Toxicology
This presentation was presented at the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia in August 2016 DAY & TIME OF PRESENTATION: Sunday, August, 21, 2016 from 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM ROOM & LOCATION: ...
Read ItFuture of Research Response to NIGMS Request for Information (RFI): Strategies for Modernizing Biomedical Graduate Education (NOT-GM-16-109)
The 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 ItAcademic clickbait: articles with positively-framed titles, interesting phrasing, and no wordplay get more attention online.
This article is about whether the factors which drive online sharing of non-scholarly content also apply to academic journal titles. It uses Altmetric scores as a measure of online attention to art...
Read ItGood Research Practice - Quality Governance in pre-clinical biomedical research
‘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 ItReplication celebration: rewarding replication to improve reproducibility
Biomedical 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 ItReproducibility in modern day open science is a keystone beyond intentions
An ancient martial arts dogma states that one should not envy those who practice 10.000 punches once, but respect those that practice one punch 10.000 times. It is in a way not different in science...
Read ItEnhancing Reproducibility
Reproducibility is the cornerstone of scientific research. A lack of reproduced data causes knowledge gaps, skepticism towards scientific research and an inability to subject hypotheses to changing...
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 ItBringing Science Into the Information Age: Social Network Incentive Systems via Cryptocurrency
When I entered graduate school, I was excited to actually start working on a project that I felt was not only meaningful but also aligned with my long-term career interests. However, as I've gotte...
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 ...
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