« Stakeholders might have diverging or conflicting expectations about the functions that peer review should fulfil. We aimed to explore how stakeholder groups perceive peer review and what they expect from it. We conducted qualitative focus group workshops with early‐, mid‐, and senior career scholars, editors, and publishers. (…) »
« Cell Press recently announced a new initiative called Community Review. The initiative tackles the core inefficiency of the current peer review system: articles often have to be reviewed at multiple journals before finding the right place where they ‘fit’. This wastes reviewer and editorial effort at…
« Le nombre de citations reçues par une publication est un indicateur utilisé pour mesurer l’impact scientifique d’une publication, en particulier d’un article de revue. Pour comparer l’impact d’une publication à celui de publications similaires, il est souhaitable de normaliser par discipline, par type de document et par année de…
« Researchers depend on consultation with previous work in their field, most of which is published in scientific journals. The open access movement has affected journals and articles, providing new alternatives for accessing scientific content, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is the most specialized and multidisciplinary database of…
« Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles– the next 5 million is getting harder
Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for…
« Objectives: This small-scale study explores the current state of connections between open data and open access (OA) articles in the life sciences.
Methods: This study involved 44 openly available life sciences datasets from the Illinois Data Bank that had 45 related research articles. For each article, I gathered the OA…
« Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known about the demographics of the researchers who post preprints and those who do not, or about the collaborations between preprint authors. Here, based on an analysis of 67,885 preprints posted on bioRxiv, we find that some…
« Scientific advance is based on reproducibility, corroboration, and availability of research results. However, large numbers of experimental results that contradict previous work do not get published and many research results are not freely available as they are hidden behind paywalls. As part of COST Action “DARTER”, a network of researchers…
« Suivre l’épidémie de Coronavirus à travers les revues scientifiques est possible, mais la surinformation tue l’information. Que se passe-t-il ? Les revues doivent suivre l’actualité, s’adresser au lectorat chinois, attirer les articles à tout prix, etc.. Nous avons décrit la compétition NEJM / Lancet sur la…
« Des chercheurs qui cherchent, on en trouve. Des chercheurs qui trouvent… on en trouve aussi. Il suffit de jeter un œil aux bénéfices annuels de l’édition scientifique. Parce que tout ce que trouvent les chercheurs est consigné dans les articles scientifiques qu’ils écrivent et soumettent aux journaux spécialisés qui les…
