Building Stronger Chains Together: Keeping Preprints Connected to the Scholarly Record
The Scholarly Kitchen,
In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the…
In the global supply chain of scholarly communications, we share a responsibility for accurate metadata that represents the…
There’s been much discussion recently of irregularities in the raw data underpinning numerous papers by prominent behavioral…
Source: https://publons.com/blog/how-to-critically-evaluate-a-manuscript-12-questions-you-should-always-ask-yourself…
This is the third instalment of ‘The case for Open Research’ series of blogs exploring the problems with Scholarly…
Academic research has been beset by a number of disturbing problems in recent years; from the reproducibility crisis and long…
It's finally happened: you have received your first invitation to peer review. You accept, pick up your red pen, and shuffle…
Dans The Slow Science Manifesto , un document publié en 2010 sur Internet, un groupe de chercheurs lançait un cri du cœur. «La…
Peer review continues to be upheld as the best way to evaluate academic research ahead of publication. Yet the peer review…
This is the third instalment of ‘The case for Open Research’ series of blogs exploring the problems with Scholarly…
Quando ero studente di dottorato mi capitava, con una certa frequenza, di partecipare in qualità di revisore al processo di…
Countries that publish less science appear to “borrow” more language from others than other, more scientifically prolific…
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. When I was a graduate student learning about the job of being an academic, my advisor gave me some good…
By Matt J. Michel Published: August 13th, 2015
Is scientific spin spinning out of control? Shall we blame reporters, journal editors, university press officers, researchers…
Another headline-grabbing study in a major journal has fallen. At the end of last year a paper in Sciencereported that people…
“Trust and incentives are the two biggest issues facing peer review” according to Laurel Haak, Executive Director of ORCID. She…
Predatory open access journals seem to be a hot topic these days. In fact, there seems to be kind of a moral panic surrounding…
I am forever returning to PubMed data, downloaded as XML, trying to extract information from it and becoming deeply confused in…
(This article was first published on What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) …
In 1973 about 280 000 scientific articles were published, but there were no retractions. When I became an editor in 1979…
The modern scholarly publication system serves as the primary means of communicating scientific results, typically through peer-r…
The modern scholarly publication system serves as the primary means of communicating scientific results, typically through peer-r…
With one in three editors encountering plagiarism on a regular basis, it remains a real problem in scientific publishing, and…
With one in three editors encountering plagiarism on a regular basis, it remains a real problem in scientific publishing, and…
Who is ultimately responsible for the content of a research paper? Most of us would point at the authors: referees can assess…
Scientific journal publishing has undergone significant changes in the last couple of decades with the digital revolution and…
This blog was written jointly by Tim Sands and Anna…
Retraction Watch readers will no doubt be familiar with the fact that retraction rates are rising, but one of the unanswered…
Science and scientists are often stereotyped as rigorous skeptics, but the truth is that blind trust plays a big role in…
This content is being cross-posted to Fireside Science. NOTE: this content has not been peer-reviewed!I am going to start this…
Wie sieht es denn eigentlich aktuell mit dem Plagiatsverfahren zur Doktorarbeit von Norbert Lammert aus? Laut Spiegel online dau…
Medical misinformation is unusually persistent in society. Despite the withdrawal of the paper that provoked the measles-mumps-ru…
Drawing on the research from his recent study into rising retraction rates R. Grant Steen argues retractions alone may be a…
See on Scoop.it – Dual impact of research; towards the impactelligent…
See on Scoop.it – Dual impact of research; towards the impactelligent…
The title of this post is the title of a new study in PLOS ONE by three researchers whose names Retraction Watch readers may…
The title of this post is the title of a new study in PLOS ONE by three researchers whose names Retraction Watch readers may…