Is sustainability research the victim or saviour of a broken academic publishing system?
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Considering how sustainability research fits into the landscape of academic publishing and responding to a critique that half…
Considering how sustainability research fits into the landscape of academic publishing and responding to a critique that half…
Confirmation bias is a potent motivator. Pollsters get fired when their polls don’t tell the right story. Industry scientists…
“Why Do Scientists Fabricate And Falsify Data?” That’s the start of the title of a new preprint posted on bioRxiv this week by…
By now, most of our readers are aware that some fields of science have a reproducibility problem. Part of the problem, some…
I was impressed by a Student Blog posted by Ulrike Träger in PLOS’ Early Career Research Community 0000-0002-4493-1136…
The distortion of incentives in science disfavors the style of groundbreaking research that led to this year’s prize.Continue…
0000-0002-4493-1136Sometimes working in academia feels like being a gymnast at the Olympics. Not because we’re tumbling through…
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Em 1996, Eugene Garfield se impôs a tarefa de buscar as origens da expressão "publish or perish" ("publique ou pereça"). A mais…
The ‘publish or perish’ culture within science skews the research literature towards positive results. But negative findings…
The ‘publish or perish’ culture within science skews the research literature towards positive results. But negative findings…
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In this guest post, Fall 2014 Center for Digital Research and Scholarship intern and MLIS candidate at Pratt Institute, Allison…
By Natalie Matosin, University of Wollongong and Martin Engel, University of Wollongong UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we…
The post "Top 5 Super-Specific Academic Journals" originally appeared on Academia Obscura. Academia is known for its ever-increas…
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We at F1000Research have a strong belief in transparency: transparency in peer review; transparency in research that is…
Elephant in the Room (by Banksy) This violent bias of classical procedures [against the null hypothesis] is not an unmitigated…
We academics might love to be on the receiving end of applause from our peers but the singular focus on publications as the…
Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine (JNRBM) supports the idea that scientists should be provided with balanced…
“Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine's immediate goal is to provide scientists and physicians with responsible and…
I recently came across a study in the sociology of science and have been wondering how to interpret the results:Do Pressures to…
il mondo della ricerca lo sa perfettamente. pubblicare e non essere citati, o pubblicare poco, o pubblicare in un filone poco “co…
Several weeks ago in the blog post “Is the Institution of “Grant-Funded” Research Killing Scientific Integrity?” I wrote about…
The objectivity and integrity of contemporary science faces many threats. A cause of particular concern is the growing…