PNAS commentary on the first year of their Consultative Peer Review Pilot

'The pilot is designed to encourage the submission of research that is sufficiently multidisciplinary and presents a challenge in finding reviewers, is counter to a prevailing view, or is too far ahead of its time to receive a fair review. Authors whose work qualifies for this review option can submit through the pilot to have their work thoroughly and efficiently reviewed by experts in the fields most relevant to their research.'
#PeerReview #sciencecommunication #scientificpublication

https://www.pnas.org/post/update/one-year-look-pnas-consultative-peer-review-pilot

A privilege to work with @richardsever on this brief commentary piece on preprints, peer review & the special problems posed by medical/clinical manuscripts.
(it should be open access).

#Preprints #PeerReview #RefereedPreprints #scientificpublication

https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/19675/15075

"The ideal of self-correction in science is not well served by the current culture and system surrounding amendments to published literature. Here we describe our view of how amendments could and should work by drawing on the idea of an author-led version control system."

#ScientificPublication

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0463?af=R

Morning scientific community! 👋

Quick wonder:

(1) On which criteria are you choosing the #journals you are #publishing your #articles in? ✅

(2) And what makes it a no-go for you? ❌

#scientificpublication #ResearchPaper

@PeerCommunityIn 3/3 With a donation equivalent to the publication fees - #APC- of a single article in a gold #openaccess journal, institutions can contribute to make this public #scientificpublication system sustainable 🎯. Not a supporter yet? Check our post at https://peercommunityin.org/2021/02/24/how-to-support-pci/

RT @ouvrirlascience
How much do APCs cost French research institutions?
@sup_recherche publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges and predicts their evolution by 2030.
#openscience #scientificpublication #articleprocessingcharges

Focused on STEM research, not social science, but a worthwhile critical examination of whether or not peer review is really everything it is cracked up to be.

"Why don’t reviewers catch basic errors and blatant fraud? One reason is that they almost never look at the data behind the papers they review, which is exactly where the errors and fraud are most likely to be."

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review?utm_source=pocket_reader

#PeerReview #Science #Research #ScientificPublication

Place your bets

"To try to prove our own brilliance scientifically (before we are replaced by machine learning) is a challenge few editors would be able to resist, and we were no different. We thus set out to test our ability to predict citations of unpublished research papers submitted to The BMJ."

#ScientificPublication #PeerReview #ScientificEditor

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-073880#

'Fifteen scientific journals published a total of 812 (68.7%) of all 1182 papers retracted for being paper mill papers, and 166 (14.0%) were published in one journal, the European Review for Medicaland Pharmacological Sciences. Of these, all journals appear to be non-predatory journals.'

#ScientificPublication #PaperMills #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview

https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-071517

Interesting piece on productivity in #scientificpublication (in #Nature): https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03784-4

#ResearchPaper #scientificpublication #publishers At some point we will have to talk, seriously, about all those papers published by invitation, special issues, and all the rest, whose messages are constantly flooding our incoming folders. Sooner or later we will end up coauthoring one or few of them. But, IMHO, we should be very careful about founding a scientific career on them. You might be caught by surprise if a given assessing committee does not value them as you might have expected.

I will toot also in English on:
#genetics
#genomediting
#CRISPR
#genome
#geneexpression
#development
#embryo
#animalmodels
#RareDisease
#albinism
#retina
#vision
#pigmentation
#melanin
#geneticdiagnose
#ethics
#bioethics
#researchintegrity
#scientificpublication
#education
#popularscience
#sciencepolicy
#evaluation
#researchmanagement
#mentoring
#integration
#solidarity
#patients