« Dans cette chronique de la Revue international PME, le professeur Yves Gingras de l’UQAM décrit les dangers que comporte l’usage simpliste qui tend à se répandre par l’utilisation mécanique d’indicateurs bibliométriques censés mesurer, de façon « objective », la productivité et l’impact des chercheurs sur le plan…
« Peer review is an essential component of the research and scholarly lifecycle. And yet, researcher peer review activities are rarely acknowledged as a fundamental contribution to research. At the same time, the need to encourage more researchers to participate in the review process to deal with an ever-increasing…
« Some scientists are raising concerns over a pilot project that will allow researchers to pay for faster peer review in a journal owned by Nature Publishing Group (NPG). One member of the journal’s editorial board has resigned in protest.
Since 24 March, biology papers submitted to…
« … This topic raises the attention of both the scientific community and civil society. For researchers, to ensure fairness and objectivity on the process and to the general public (taxpayers) to ensure that projects are approved on the merits and not for political reasons or to favor third…
« … Publons works with reviewers, publishers, universities, and funding agencies to turn peer review into a measurable research output. Peer review information from reviewers and from publishers is collected by Publons to produce comprehensive reviewer profiles with publisher-verified peer review contributions that researchers can add to their resume and…
« … Springer has joined forces with Peerage of Science to help authors more easily submit their manuscripts for consideration in Springer journals. Both sides are looking at how they can make the process easier and less time consuming, reduce the time to publication, and eliminate the need for re-submissions.…
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There is a paucity of data in the literature concerning the validation of the grant application peer review process, which is used to help direct billions of dollars in research funds. Ultimately, this validation will hinge upon empirical data relating the output of funded projects to the…
« eLife has introduced an innovative new type of article – the Research Advance – that invites the authors of any eLife paper to present significant additions to their original research (…)
eLife is committed to finding new ways of getting important, original research into scientists’ hands…
« …The criteria for inclusion are very simple: The repositories should have their own web domain or subdomain and include at least peer-reviewed papers to be considered (services that contain only archives, databanks or learning objects are not ranked).
Although there is a paper describing the…
« Amidst heavy scepticism over the role of metrics in research assessments, Martin Smith [Professor of Politics at the University of York] wonders whether the flaws of the current system have been fully recognised. There is no system of research assessment that is perfect and peer review may well be a better,…
