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“High Value, Low Wastage Research” Is More Than Just a Catchphrase Now
I don’t recall hearing it before. But I’ve heard the slogan “high value, low wastage research” a lot the last few days. And I think this one is more than just a catchphrase. It’s looking like a...
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Open Access 2018: A Year of Funders and Universities Drawing Lines in the Sand
This is the sixth year I’ve rounded up the year in open access – and it was the most remarkable. When the year began, the world’s largest academic publisher, Elsevier, had increased their annual...
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Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1...
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding in science, wouldn’t you? But it doesn’t. The quantity of research is meagre,...
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Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review...
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to what we end up reading, and to scientists’ careers. Yet, as we saw in part 1, the...
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Why Don’t We Do More Visualizations of Methods?
When engineer and political economist William Playfair started designing graphical representations of data in the 18th century, he was trying, he said, “to clear up my own ideas on the subject”. Many...
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“Destructo-Critics” and Mean Bloggers: The Study
A couple of years ago, psychologist Susan Fiske launched a broadside against science bloggers – since taken offline – packed with name-calling. That launched a spate of blogging, musing on what it...
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Can Anything Really Stop the Science Spin Snowball?
With each set of hands study results pass through, there is a chance for another layer of spin to be added or chipped away. Adding is awfully common, though. By the time it gets to the press...
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Google Scholar Risks and Alternatives
I wasn’t there. But it sounds like a ripper of a talk. “There seems to be a narrowing of our collective view of the literature”, according to Jevin West. He’s from the University of Washington, and...
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Who You Gonna Search? Engine News for Systematic Reviewers
Isn’t it almost always the way? I had barely finished my recent post about alternatives to Google Scholar, it seems to me, before news for systematic reviewers landed about Google Scholar and...
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5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into editorial peer review to get off the ground. The earliest experimental study...
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