Random open impressions
Disclaimer: Maybe you do not agree with some of the points. But before you rush to the comment section or Twitter: Think about it. Just one day or night. Purpose of this text is to give some impres...
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The shift to Post Publication Peer Review (PPPR) in Biology is on its way
(see French version here) To my French colleagues: a plead to adopt PPPR I cannot help but recommend this interesting “Perspective” by Ronald Vale that appeared in PNAS in November 2015 in the case...
Read ItThe confusing world of Altmetrics - A personal opinion, with confusing data
I am a fan of Altmetrics. At least in concept. But I starting to get very concerned with both the tools used to measure them and what the “numbers” are expected to indicate. We would expect that a ...
Read ItEthics for a new scientific millennium
Introduction For quite a long time, people discussed about terms and concepts like ‘impact factor’, ‘negative results’, and ‘reproducibility’ in all kinds of analog and digital media. Here, I want ...
Read ItWhen Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done
The following questions and answers are adapted from the session “When Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done,” part of the Association of American University Presses annual meeting. Moderator: Neil Ch...
Read ItFuture of Research - How Can We Improve Career Awareness and Preparedness? A workshop at the NatureJobs Career Expo Boston 2015
Current issues surrounding research and funding, in particular questions about training and workforce stability, affect career development amongst graduate students and postdocs. The Future of Rese...
Read ItOpen Letter to Clare College, Cambridge from Alumni: Discussions surrounding the Honorary Fellowship and Issues in Science following recent comments by Sir Tim Hunt
On 8th June 2015, Sir Tum Hunt made a comment in reference to women in science which has generated much debate. In response to this a group of 11 alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, at which Tim Hu...
Read ItAre more retractions due to more scrutiny?
In the last “Science Weekly” podcast from the Guardian, the topic was retractions. At about 20:29 into the episode, Hannah Devlin asked, whether the reason ‘top’ journals retract more articles may...
Read ItA critical view of altmetrics
Altmetrics is one of the hotly debated topics in the Open Science movement today. In summary, the idea is that traditional bibliometric measures (citation counts, impact factors, h factors, ...) ar...
Read ItA Response to the NIH RFI "Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies"
This document contains my comments to the National Institutes of Health Request for Information on “Optimizing Funding Policies and Other Strategies to Improve the Impact and Sustainability of Biom...
Read ItConvenience and quality: cloud-based personal research tools and the evolving scholarly record
Over the past few years a vast range of cloud-based scholarly communication tools have been added to the researcher's toolkit. The timeline developed by Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer at Utrecht ...
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...
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