peer review
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Quality of science & its communication
The peer review system is broken. We asked academics how to fix it
Peer review can be exploitative, opaque and slow. There’s plenty that journals, publishers, and universities can do to make the…
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Open access to scholarly knowledge
Open access to scholarly knowledge in the digital era (chapter 2.3): The evolving role of readers in peer review
How peer review is being shaped by citation, commenting, sharing, and examining.
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Brain power
The onward march of open science
Neuroscience research platform aims to facilitate greater collaboration between researchers.
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Quality of science & its communication
Blacklist of predatory journals to return – at a price
Cabell’s International is set to launch a list of predatory journals, but it will only be available to paying subscribers.
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Quality of science & its communication
What might peer review look like in 2030?
Recommendations and a range of perspectives on the future of peer review in scientific publishing.
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Brain power
Does peer review in a competitive environment result in important research going unpublished?
Looking at the effects of the competitive academic publishing environment in a peer review system, using the 'Art Exhibition Game'.
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Brain power
Research fraud: the temptation to lie – and the challenges of regulation
A number of high-profile cases in which academics have fabricated their data points to a much larger problem around scholarly…
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Community
In science we trust… up to a point
Adam Rutherford, a former geneticist and now science writer and broadcaster, asks if we can continue to trust the science…
