Building trust in peer review: A Q
On Medicine,
Peer Review Week 2020 takes place September 21-25, with this year’s featured theme — “Trust in Peer Review” — dedicated to…
Can social science still be used as a foundation for public policy? On improving the reliability of evidence.
Impact of Social Sciences,
John Jerrim and Robert de Vries argue a radical overhaul is needed of how social science is published and produced for it to…
Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds
[citation needed],
Digital object identifiers (DOIs) are much sought-after commodities in the world of academic publishing. If you’ve never seen…
the truth is not optional: five bad reasons (and one mediocre one) for defending the status quo
[citation needed],
You could be forgiven for thinking that academic psychologists have all suddenly turned into professional whistleblowers.
How to publish a paper: a student’s perspective (part 2)
epidemiologista,
Well, thank you all for reading the first part – I got more visitors than I normally get in a month! Hope you like the second…
Sixteen is not magic: Comment on Friston (2012)
[citation needed],
UPDATE: I’ve posted a very classy email response from Friston here. In a “comments and controversies” piece published in…
The reviewer’s dilemma, or why you shouldn’t get too meta when you’re supposed to be writing a review that’s already overdue
[citation needed],
When I review papers for journals, I often find myself facing something of a tension between two competing motives. On the one…
Sunday Soundbites: Happy New Year!
NeurRealism,
Is peer review better than chance? A new study says "maybe not".Who is more likely to be prescribed a cognitive enhancer, me or…
Does Peer Review Work?
Neuroskeptic,
Scientific peer review is based on the idea that some papers deserve to get published and others don't.By asking a hand-picked…
Does Peer Review Work?
Neuroskeptic,
Scientific peer review is based on the idea that some papers deserve…
Peer Review Is Random
Overcoming Bias,
Which academic articles get published in the more prestigious journals is a pretty random process. When referees review an…