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• The Famous Grouse — Do Prominent Scientists Have Biased Perceptions of Peer Review?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 547
  Conventional wisdom has well-known researchers getting more and more requests for reviews, leading some to suggest the system is broken and about to implode. Yet, when real-world data are analyzed, some surprises emerge. Continue reading »
  12 hours ago

• Branding academic publishers enemies of science is offensive and wrong

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  Publishers have made more scientific research available to more readers at a lower unit cost than ever before Writing in these pages last week, Dr Mike Taylor used strong language to support his assertion that academic publishers have "drifted out of alignment" with science – language that demands a response. I ...
  5 days ago

• Blog based science challenges arsenic life

  
  Chemistry World blog — Authority: 412
  Even before it was published, the arsenic life story (about a microorganism that uses the toxic element arsenic instead of phosphorus to live) was causing controversy. But while many people went back and forth with criticisms, Rosie Redfield has been trying to repeat Wolfe-Simon’s experiments, and ...
  1 week ago

• More on peer review: what is credible evidence?

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  Austin sent me this interesting article in the New York Times discussing a variety of interrelated issues: speed of peer review, open access journals, the role of scientists/journalists/bloggers, and who owns research, to name a few. Science and peer review are slow and methodical; the questions, problems and ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Open Science And The Econoblogosphere" by Paul Krugman

  
  Social Europe Journal — Authority: 119
  Interesting article in the Times about the push for “open science”, bypassing the traditional structure of refereed journals in favor of a sort of fluid, self-policing online community. I can’t and...
  2 weeks ago

• Nine ways scientists demonstrate they dont understand journalism | Ananyo Bhattacharya

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  If reporters wrote stories the way some scientists seem to want, few people would read science coverage Have you heard of Futurity ? How about The Conversation ? In different ways, these sites and others are bypassing the traditional media model – cutting out the journalist middleman and letting researchers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open science and open scholarly publishing

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 413
  For what LIRNEasia does, scholarly publishing with slow-paced peer review and print-on-paper publishing has not been the best fit. Our 2006 work got published in a 2008 book and our 2008 survey data got published in a special issue of a journal in 2011 . But the question of assessing and ensuring quality is ever ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reading is good for the brain

  
  Right What You No — Authority: 104
  I may have mentioned it before, but I am a science nerd. Now that that is out in the open Id also like to remind you that Im also a thriller writer with muscles, so sand kickers; you will need to think twice about that. What I love about science is the way it goes about trying to understand the universe. In fact ...
  2 weeks ago

• Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywallsThis is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 962
  The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls This is the moment academic publishers gave up all pretence of being on the side of scientists . Their rhetoric has traditionally been of partnering with scientists, but the truth is that for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Biting back at “bite-size” science …

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 522
  In “The perils of ‘bite-size’ science” ( Association for Psychological Science , December 28, 2011), the Association attempts a stand against the flood tide of nonsense marketed as science: Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st-century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Controversial HIV–AIDS paper published again, this time in peer reviewed journal

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 429
  Here’s an important story we missed from last week. Paper denying HIV–AIDS link secures publication : Nature News & Comment . A controversial research paper that argued “there is as yet no proof that HIV causes AIDS” and met with a storm of protest when it was published in 2009, leading to its ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is this where science fraud begins?

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 522
  From William Damon, director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, “The Death of Honesty” ( Defining Ideas , January 12, 2012), … many teachers, in order to avoid legal action and other contention, look the other way if their students copy test answers or hand in plagiarized papers. Some teachers excuse ...
  2 weeks ago

• Red wine researcher fabricates masses of data …

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 522
    Glad we found the coffee graphic again. Knew we’d need it. Speaking of research fraud …. In “Well This is Darn Annoying” ( Powerline , January 12, 2012), Steven Hayward reports , I’ve long been a believer, on intuitive, metaphysical, and Platonic grounds, in the theory that red wine is good ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sorting out a dubious report on China in Africa

  
  Transpacifica — Authority: 102
  Well, this doesn’t look good. American University Professor Deborah Brautigam has written a  detailed criticism of a think tank commentary  about Chinese agricultural investment in Mozambique, and if her conclusions are correct, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and its author have some explaining ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paradise Linked

  
  The Christian Humanist Blog — Authority: 100
  Ted Gup rails against the verbal filler “like.”  (Does he overreact?) As Gilmour pulls within weeks of his dissertation defense, an argument for more diversity in dissertation projects Bringing peer review into the twenty-first century … or not Why cutting humanities programs won’t help the economy
  2 weeks ago

• The climate science peer pressure cooker

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 694
  Will Replicated Global Warming Science Make Mann Go Ape? By Patrick J. Michaels – from World Climate Report About 10 years ago, December 20, 2002 to be exact, we published a paper titled “Revised 21st century temperature projections” in the … Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• Two opinions on the state of science publishing

  
  Watts Up With That? — Authority: 694
  I’ve been made aware of two different opinions on state of science publishing as it relates to peer review and the pressure to publish even faster due to the Internet and all of its “instalaunch” tools. First, in Nature, a … Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• A few suggestions on peer review

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 639
  This post was also published in the LSE impact blog today. A few weeks back, the LSE Impact blog had a piece by Jason Priem on the use of twitter by academics that suggested peer review journals might become a thing of the past. Austin Frakt and I wrote a brief post noting that as much as we love twitter, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Software Inspections – Code Review and Peer Reviews

  
  New Technology articles, Cool Gifts and Hi Tech Gadgets! — Authority: 128
  Article by Tom Greaves The two main areas of software inspection are code review and peer reviews, both are unique and have different levels of efficiency. Recent studies suggest peer reviews are more efficient and cost effective, however this has not been fully confirmed. This article takes a look at the two ...
  4 weeks ago

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