Opinion piece at #PLOS Global #PublicHealth

by Chiamaka P. Ojiako, Lazenya Weekes-Richemond, Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, and Marie-Claire Wangari

Who is a public health expert?

-Expertise is not limited to medical or health professionals
-Expertise is not limited to academia or high-income nations

"The current understanding of global health expertise is reflective of embedded elements of residual colonialism that considered white individuals as the only experts."

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0002269

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The u.s. staff of #PLOS is now unionized. Holla!

https://twitter.com/PLOSUnion/status/1679617332161953792?t=kGETysOKbpbSEdNZVVKM1w&s=19

#OA #OpenAccess #scholcomm #ScholarlyPublishing #publishing

Why quantifying Openness matters

Open Science Indicators (OSI) are a new source of information on #OpenScience practices .... Produced in partnership with DataSeer, they use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and measure Open Science practices in all PLOS articles, and in a comparator set of similar #OA research articles. The dataset begins in January 2019, and is updated quarterly.

#OpenAccess
#OpenData

#PLOS

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/07/quantifying-openness/

Männer jagen? Frauen sammeln?
Ein weiteres Geschlechterklischee, das nun von der Wissenschaft debunked wurde:
#Spektrum #science #plos
https://www.spektrum.de/news/ethnologische-statistik-wo-gejagt-wird-jagen-auch-die-frauen/2156292
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101

News @PLOS:

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/07/accessible-data/

Original experiment: use icon (image below) to
--Increase reuse of datasets linked to #PLOS articles and
--Increase use of data repositories by offering a visual cue/ reward on articles.

Now expanding to include many more articles, to look for differences in how readers engage with different types of data, and different types of research output

#opendata
#OpenScience
#openaccess
#repository

Example paper:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002099

A very nice collection of recent papers in environmental science from across the #PLOS family of journals, at the Latitude blog.

#EnvironmentalScience
#climatechange
#water
#agriculture
#atmosphericscience
#socioEconomics
#sustainability

https://latitude.plos.org/2023/06/environmental-science-research-plos/

"Inclusivity and equity are core to a strong foundation of Open Science, and we need to hear from all perspectives in order to make science, the process of publishing science, and the solutions science inspires, more robust. *PLOS Mental Health* and *PLOS Complex Systems* will strive to represent research from local experts around the world, and from across various disciplines."

#openaccess
#OpenScience
#mentalhealth
#complexsystems
#plos
#scientificpublishing

https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/06/welcoming-two-new-journals-to-the-plos-portfolio/

Restoration of #NotreDame in Paris reveals much. Thank you #PLOS (Public Library Of Science) providing open access to this (and other) scholarly journals … https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280945#pone.0280945.ref002

🚨 New research using our #population #OpenData - #Modelling modifiable factors associated with the probability of human #rabies deaths among self-reported victims of dog bites in Abuja, #Nigeria - in #PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases #uni_abuja #Bayesian #modelling https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011147

Highly cited papers can be published in any journal. When looking for a tool to reverse-complement sequencing results, I discovered the paper describing SeqKit (2016). Cited more than 900 times and the software is still actively maintained:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163962

#rnaseq #bioinformatics #citations #plos

#Geier retten Leben, #Wölfe eher nicht. 70 Jahre Angriffe von bepelzten #Karnivoren auf Menschen als csv unter #CC0. Qualitative Betrachtungen zu einem #PLOS Biology-Paper von Bombieri et al: https://blog.tfiu.de/pelztiere-vs-menschen-die-letzten-70-jahre.html
#zuengeln

New Zika virus lineages show increased fitness
#ZikaVirus
#Zika
#PLOS
#NeglectedTropicalDiseases
#PhenitypicAdaptation
#Mosquito
#Mosquitos
#Mozzies
#Clades
#Mutations
#ZikaEpidemic https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230209/New-Zika-virus-lineages-show-increased-fitness.aspx
>The current study, published in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, aimed to explore the possible phenotypic adaptation of the Zika virus to increase its transmissibility and virulence in the Americas.

Conversations about predatory publishing rarely seem to include non-controversial control groups, or compare groups of similar size/scope.

What is your opinion of the following groups? Below is a thread of polls, each with the same question asked for a different publisher. Publisher order determined randomly.

Please share!

Poll on🗳️: #Springer, #BMC, #Frontiers, #Hindawi, #PLOS, #MDPI, #Elsevier, #Wiley

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Hashtag post to draw attention to question and polls above on predatory publishing. OP art by DALL-E+own work🖼️

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@PaoloCrosetto@twitter.com @danbrockington@twitter.com @ChristosCPetrou@twitter.com

#PredatoryPublisher #AcademicChatter #Springer #BMC #Frontiers #Hindawi #PLOS #MDPI #Elsevier #Wiley

Update. I think the Lancet is wrong to assume that new funder #openaccess policies will be #gold more often than #green. But either way, it's right to waive or discount APCs when authors can't find funding from their funder or employer.

Next: Like #PLOS and others, it should investigate no-APC publishing for all authors, not just those with economic hardship.

BTW, how often do authors pay APCs out of pocket?
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9

@jorgeapenas The finances of #PLOS are transparent: https://plos.org/financial-overview/

American cities will typically spend more on incarceration than health care and support systems, particularly if said cities have a large poor black population: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276818

#plos #plosone #brittskaathun #francescamaviglia #anhvo #allisonmcbride #sarahseymour #sebastianmendez #gregggonsalves #leobeletsky #carcarelstate #justice #incarceragtion #racism #strucutralracism #institutionalracism #institutions #us #usa #unitedstatesofamerica #unitedstates #cities #health #support

Nine publishers just expressed their "full support" for the new White House #OSTP guidelines for federal agency #openaccess policies.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975032

"Our main message is simple: publishing in any journal published by this group already meets or exceeds the requirements outlined in the OSTP memo."

The signatory publishers are #Copernicus Publications, #eLife, #Frontiers, #JMIR Publications, #MDPI, Open Library of Humanities (#OLH), #PeerJ, #PLOS, and #Ubiquity Press.

#PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French #COVID researcher for #ethics concerns

The publisher PLOS is marking nearly 50 articles by Didier Raoult, the French scientist who became controversial for promoting hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19, with expressions of concern while it investigates potential research ethics violations in the work.

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/

#PLOS flags nearly 50 papers by controversial French #COVID researcher for #ethics concerns

The publisher PLOS is marking nearly 50 articles by Didier Raoult, the French scientist who became controversial for promoting hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19, with expressions of concern while it investigates potential research ethics violations in the work.

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/