As a graduate student, I signed DORA to speak out against the misuse of the impact factor. Even with my career before me, I knew that something about the way research was being evaluated in hiring, promotion, and funding decisions needed to change. It did not make any sense that the value of a researcher […]
This is adapted from our recent paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks/months to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section outlines […]
Welcome to your usual roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last month from the worlds of Open Science and Palaeontology! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous time. Palaeontology News Lomax: A forefin of Leptonectes solei from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Dorset, UK. Deline et al: Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity. […]
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive publishing practices, with many researchers of standing and reputation found to have published in “predatory” journals. However, while the findings of this investigation garnered significant media attention, the robustness of the study itself was not […]
“As an extension to this, we need to make sure that we aren’t just paying ‘inclusivity’ lip service, and only applying it in a superficial manner. For example, simply getting a diverse group of people to participate in something like peer review for the sake of a box-ticking exercise. If we want to truly promote […]
Today, an article was published in Science Business about some of the developments around Plan S, the European Commission’s ambitious new plans for Open Access. The piece includes a quote from me, and I want to share my full responses here for the sake of transparency. Do you see any weaknesses in the plan? Some […]
What exactly is open science? It can be a social justice issue, part of a political capitalist regime or a form of traditional science. Source: Do we need an Open Science coalition? · Elephant in the Lab Reference: Tennant, J. (2018). Do we need an Open Science coalition? Elephant in the Lab. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1407963
This is adapted from our recent paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks/months to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This section outlines […]
Welcome to your usual roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last month from the worlds of Open Science and Palaeontology! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous time. Palaeontology News Brownstein: The distinctive theropod assemblage of the Ellisdale site of New Jersey and its implications for North American dinosaur ecology […]
Today, Corina Logan, Laurent Gatto and I have a short correspondence published in Nature. This is a response to an article criticising the relationship between preprints and scientific journalism. Our piece is just one of many, and we have included a list below the full response below. We welcome wider discussion on this issue! Original […]