Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1770 followers · 8976 posts · Server qoto.org

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.'

pnas.org/post/update/one-year-

#sciencecommunication #scientificpublication #peerreview

Last updated 1 year ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1559 followers · 5288 posts · Server qoto.org

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).

actamedicaportuguesa.com/revis

#preprints #peerreview #refereedpreprints #scientificpublication

Last updated 2 years ago

Doug Bostrom · @Doug_Bostrom
375 followers · 2781 posts · Server scicomm.xyz

"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."

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

#scientificpublication

Last updated 2 years ago

Audrey Bras · @AudreyBras
42 followers · 56 posts · Server ecoevo.social

Morning scientific community! πŸ‘‹

Quick wonder:

(1) On which criteria are you choosing the you are your in? βœ…

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

#journals #publishing #articles #scientificpublication #ResearchPaper

Last updated 2 years ago

Peer Community In · @PeerCommunityIn
984 followers · 79 posts · Server ecoevo.social

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

#apc #openaccess #scientificpublication

Last updated 2 years ago

Francois Sabot · @francois_sabot
289 followers · 494 posts · Server genomic.social

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

Last updated 2 years ago

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 · @kerim
1226 followers · 580 posts · Server zirk.us

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."

experimentalhistory.substack.c

#PeerReview #science #research #scientificpublication

Last updated 2 years ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
1104 followers · 2331 posts · Server qoto.org

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."

bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-0

#scientificeditor #scientificpublication #peerreview

Last updated 2 years ago

Thiago Carvalho · @cyrilpedia
935 followers · 1560 posts · Server qoto.org

'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.'

bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-0

#PaperMills #ResearchIntegrity #scientificpublication #peerreview

Last updated 2 years ago

Victor A. Albert · @PlantEvoGenomics
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Lluis Montoliu · @LluisMontoliu
446 followers · 87 posts · Server mastodon.world

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.

#ResearchPaper #scientificpublication #publishers

Last updated 2 years ago

Lluis Montoliu · @LluisMontoliu
446 followers · 87 posts · Server mastodon.world