Is the lack of published non-significant results the fault of reviewers and editors refusing to publish them, or do researchers refuse to even write such results up? Interesting article using pre print servers to suggest the latter is the explanation… #preprint #scientificpublishing #Science https://www.newthingsunderthesun.com/pub/swbmzhyg/release/8?utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack

@brembs

Tangentially: goodness, your article on "NEJM and you thought Nature was expensive" (2019) is really shocking. $300,000 per article (!!!) if they were to go open access (i.e., no subscription fees)?

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2019/03/new-england-journal-of-medicine-and-you-thought-nature-was-expensive/

#ScientificPublishing

@sls Once I asked a Nature editor, quite the techie kind, why their manuscript processing system was so arcane and simply awful. After making some suggestions he offered me to join in to fix it. The claim was they can’t find competent people (on both the problem domain and the technology side) and depend on third-party solutions which are the result of “spending someone else’s money on someone else”, i.e., nobody cared. Given their profit margins one would think they would, but alas, perhaps it’s the opposite.

#ScientificPublishing

I recently discovered the lobbies in #scientificpublishing and many things started falling into place...

@Sheril

Indeed, and publishing open access is not even controversial among scientists. But there's a strong asymmetry: scientists are busy doing science, instead of fighting for legislation, whereas journals can dedicate part of the very funds collected from scientists (after all, the scientific publishing industry has outrageous profit margins) to lobby for legislation in their favour.

#ScientificPublishing

This will only get worse! It looks like the authors may not have disclosed their use of #ChatGPT. Thanks to @dltj for the OP.

#AIEthics #GenerativeAI #ScientificPublishing #Elsevier https://code4lib.social/@dltj/110925636777063149

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@frod_san

Hear, hear: "code sharing can considerably improve citations".

More arguments when, as a journal editor, I request that all software, even scripts, are shared.

#ScientificPublishing #OpenAccess #Reproducibility

@BorisBarbour

Yet this is so on point: "Until publishing papers is decoupled from earning funding and employment, however, it’s difficult to imagine how much will change."

#academia #ScientificPublishing

@mick I endorse @eLife — publishes lots of #neuroscience and the review process is sane. No limits on text or figures, no formatting requirements, and entirely open access.

#ScientificPublishing

@MarkHanson @modrak_m

Good! Those are great thoughts. The #ScientificPublishing status quo is kind of lame, and in many ways counterproductive.

By the way one point of dissent on this particular blog post: for me, writing scientific papers is a pleasure. Also part of the process of finding holes, missing data, inconsistencies, and often spurs new experiments—so one should start writing early rather than when done with lab work.

And to add that science communication is a fundamental aspect of research: without it, one remains limited. It’s the hive mind, so to speak—the interactions, the echos, the replications, the dissent—that makes the endeavour of science a big win-win.

@MarkHanson

Incidentally and not coincidentally, this is why preprints work:

“science is a strong link problem: we make progress by producing good stuff, not by preventing bad stuff. When you’re in a strong-link problem, the answer is to turn up the weirdness. More wild hypotheses! More risky research! The useless ideas will die from disuse, but the useful ideas will live on.”

#science #academia #ScientificPublishing #preprint

TODAY: The Ambassadors for Better Research Culture (ABRC) are excited to host Dr Liam Messin, Deputy Editor at The Lancet Global Health to speak about his career in #ScientificPublishing. Liam is an alumni of the WMS Biomedical Sciences Division (PhD 2013-2017) #WarwickUni and will share personal experiences and career tips.

Medical Teaching Centre Lecture Theatre (MD 0.01) 1-2pm

#ScientificPublishing has gotten a bit slow since the pandemic, especially with the "big publishers" ... totally understandable, I haven't had the mental throughput to review as many papers lately. In my experience, #SocietyJournals have done a pretty good job.

I have a manuscript that's been in "needing an editor" limbo with a big publisher for about 2 months. I know it'll go quick once we get an editor and reviewers, but my postdoc is getting a little antsy.

@uma_karma @knutson_brain

The article makes good points. The question is what do we want: a growing online social network like twitter in ~2010, or an already mature and rich one like twitter in ~2020. Can't get the latter without the former.

Of course a valid alternative is neither, but I for one don't want to go back to emails with journal's table of contents and similarly ineffective journal-centric means of dissemination of scientific findings. So I focus on growing this one. Quality content begets quality content.

#academia #ScientificPublishing #SocialMedia

@hugo
#scientificpublishing is perhaps a 'tragedy of the commons' problem. A high impact journal is a scarce resource, and we pay and (perhaps unknowingly) compete to find a place in such a journal. What we probably need is a free and well established recommendation system, where a paper in a low-impact journal ends up at the top of the list, thanks to many recommendations.

#PCI a free recommendation process of scientific
#preprints based on peer reviews and a journal: https://peercommunityin.org/

Follow @ehaswell in her journey of discussing her views and experiences in #scientificpublishing!

https://fediscience.org/@ehaswell@mstdn.social/110690210348106424

These days, some scientific journals not only allow citations of preprints, but also of newspaper articles. As a reader, you don't know the kind of document that is cited unless you check the list of references.

What do you think about citing newspaper articles in scientific papers?

#scientificPublishing

In this article (in French), CNRS' Deputy CEO for Science warns against the increasing amounts paid for Article Processing Charges (APCs).

*Mutatis mutandis*, we would spend more under a full OA system than we did under the previous subscription-based one.

And (shockingly), MDPI is the second publisher in terms of amounts spent (Springer-Nature being first, notably thanks to *Sci Rep* and *Nat Comms*).

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/node/7763

#ScientificPublishing #OpenAccess #OA #APC #MDPI

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