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Stephen P. Lock on "Journalology"
INSTITUTE FOn SCIENTl FICl NF0F4MAT10N8 3501 MARKET ST PHILADELPHIA PA 19104 Stephen P. Lock on “Journalology” Number 3 January 15, 1990 I don’t remember exactly how long I have Lock: Editor and Scholar known Stephen P. Lock. Our first encounter was probably at a meeting of the Council of Biology Editors (CBE) some 20 years Stephen P. Lock was born in 1929 and re- ago. It is somewhat unsettling to realize that ceived his education at Queen’s College, so much time has gone by. Equally disquiet- Cambridge University, UK, and the Medical ing is the notion that Steve will soon retire College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. as editor of the venerable British Medical Trained as a hematologist, he served on the Journal (BMJ). But in the near future Steve staffs of various London teaching hospitals, will indeed step down, having helped train including St. Bartholomew’s and the Hos- his successor, due to be appointed in the fall pital for Sick Children, before being ap- of 1990. pointed assistant editor of BMJ in 1964. It seems odd to refer to Lock as an elder After serving as senior assistant editor and statesman of biomedical editing-however deputy editor, Lock became editor in 1975. accurate that description might be. The word I am amused that Steve opened his talk that comes to mind when I think of Steve with the traditional, mythical reminder about is youth. This youthfidness is reflected in the estimates of the number of extant jour- his writing and in his approach to problems. nals. -
Plan S in Latin America: a Precautionary Note
Plan S in Latin America: A precautionary note Humberto Debat1 & Dominique Babini2 1Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (IPAVE-CIAP-INTA), Argentina, ORCID id: 0000-0003-3056-3739, [email protected] 2Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Argentina. ORCID id: 0000-0002- 5752-7060, [email protected] Latin America has historically led a firm and rising Open Access movement and represents the worldwide region with larger adoption of Open Access practices. Argentina has recently expressed its commitment to join Plan S, an initiative from a European consortium of research funders oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of scientific outputs. Here we suggest that the potential adhesion of Argentina or other Latin American nations to Plan S, even in its recently revised version, ignores the reality and tradition of Latin American Open Access publishing, and has still to demonstrate that it will encourage at a regional and global level the advancement of non-commercial Open Access initiatives. Plan S is an initiative from a European consortium of research funders, with the intention of becoming international, oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of research outputs funded by public or private grants, starting from 2021. Launched in September 2018 and revised in May 2019, the plan supported by the so-called cOAlition S involves 10 principles directed to achieve scholarly publishing in “Open Access Journals, Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo” [1]. cOAlition S, coordinated by Science Europe and comprising 16 national research funders, three charitable foundations and the European Research Council, has pledged to coordinately implement the 10 principles of Plan S in 2021. -
Medical Journals Drastically Speed up Their Publication Process for Covid-19
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.18.045963; this version posted April 18, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Pandemic Publishing: Medical journals drastically speed up their publication process for Covid-19 Author Serge P.J.M. Horbach*,1,2 [email protected] +31243652730 ORCID: 0000-0003-0406-6261 *Corresponding author 1 Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Science, Institute for Science in Society, P.O. box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 62A, 2333 AL Leiden, The Netherlands Abstract In times of public crises, including the current Covid-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals’ publication process is one of the main factors hindering quick delivery of new information. While proper editorial assessment and peer review obviously require some time, turnaround times for medical journals can be up to several months, which is undesirable in the era of a crisis. Following initiatives of medical journals and scholarly publishers to accelerate their publication process, this study assesses whether medical journals have indeed managed to speed up their publication process for Covid-19 related articles. It studies the duration of 14 medical journals’ publication process both during and prior to the current pandemic. Assessing a total of 669 articles, the study concludes that medical journals have indeed drastically accelerated the publication process for Covid-19 related articles since the outbreak of the pandemic. -
Is Sci-Hub Increasing Visibility of Indian Research Papers? an Analytical Evaluation Vivek Kumar Singh1,*, Satya Swarup Srichandan1, Sujit Bhattacharya2
Journal of Scientometric Res. 2021; 10(1):130-134 http://www.jscires.org Perspective Paper Is Sci-Hub Increasing Visibility of Indian Research Papers? An Analytical Evaluation Vivek Kumar Singh1,*, Satya Swarup Srichandan1, Sujit Bhattacharya2 1Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA. 2CSIR-National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, INDIA. ABSTRACT Sci-Hub, founded by Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011 in Kazakhstan has, over the years, Correspondence emerged as a very popular source for researchers to download scientific papers. It is Vivek Kumar Singh believed that Sci-Hub contains more than 76 million academic articles. However, recently Department of Computer Science, three foreign academic publishers (Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society) have Banaras Hindu University, filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub and LibGen before the Delhi High Court and prayed for Varanasi-221005, INDIA. complete blocking these websites in India. It is in this context, that this paper attempts to Email id: [email protected] find out how many Indian research papers are available in Sci-Hub and who downloads them. The citation advantage of Indian research papers available on Sci-Hub is analysed, Received: 16-03-2021 with results confirming that such an advantage do exist. Revised: 29-03-2021 Accepted: 25-04-2021 Keywords: Indian Research, Indian Science, Black Open Access, Open Access, Sci-Hub. DOI: 10.5530/jscires.10.1.16 INTRODUCTION access publishing of their research output, and at the same time encouraging their researchers to publish in openly Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has become one accessible forms. -
Sci-Hub Provides Access to Nearly All Scholarly Literature
Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature A DOI-citable version of this manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100. This manuscript was automatically generated from greenelab/scihub-manuscript@51678a7 on October 12, 2017. Submit feedback on the manuscript at git.io/v7feh or on the analyses at git.io/v7fvJ. Authors • Daniel S. Himmelstein 0000-0002-3012-7446 · dhimmel · dhimmel Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania · Funded by GBMF4552 • Ariel Rodriguez Romero 0000-0003-2290-4927 · arielsvn · arielswn Bidwise, Inc • Stephen Reid McLaughlin 0000-0002-9888-3168 · stevemclaugh · SteveMcLaugh School of Information, University of Texas at Austin • Bastian Greshake Tzovaras 0000-0002-9925-9623 · gedankenstuecke · gedankenstuecke Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt • Casey S. Greene 0000-0001-8713-9213 · cgreene · GreeneScientist Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania · Funded by GBMF4552 PeerJ Preprints | https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100v2 | CC BY 4.0 Open Access | rec: 12 Oct 2017, publ: 12 Oct 2017 Abstract The website Sci-Hub provides access to scholarly literature via full text PDF downloads. The site enables users to access articles that would otherwise be paywalled. Since its creation in 2011, Sci- Hub has grown rapidly in popularity. However, until now, the extent of Sci-Hub’s coverage was unclear. As of March 2017, we find that Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in toll access journals. -
Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct
Ten Simple Rules for Scientic Fraud & Misconduct Nicolas P. Rougier1;2;3;∗ and John Timmer4 1INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Talence, France 2Institut des Maladies Neurodeg´ en´ eratives,´ Universite´ de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France 3LaBRI, Universite´ de Bordeaux, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5800, Talence, France 4Ars Technica, Conde´ Nast, New York, NY, USA ∗Corresponding author: [email protected] Disclaimer. We obviously do not encourage scientific fraud nor misconduct. The goal of this article is to alert the reader to problems that have arisen in part due to the Publish or Perish imperative, which has driven a number of researchers to cross the Rubicon without the full appreciation of the consequences. Choosing fraud will hurt science, end careers, and could have impacts on life outside of the lab. If you’re tempted (even slightly) to beautify your results, keep in mind that the benefits are probably not worth the risks. Introduction So, here we are! You’ve decided to join the dark side of Science. at’s great! You’ll soon discover a brand new world of surprising results, non-replicable experiments, fabricated data, and funny statistics. But it’s not without risks: fame and shame, retractions and lost grants, and… possibly jail. But you’ve made your choice, so now you need to know how to manage these risks. Only a few years ago, fraud and misconduct was a piece of cake (See the Mechanical Turk, Perpetual motion machine, Life on Moon, Piltdown man, Water memory). But there are lots of new players in town (PubPeer, RetractionWatch, For Beer Science, Neuroskeptic to name just a few) who have goen prey good at spoing and reporting fraudsters. -
Assessing the Utility of an Institutional Publications Officer: a Pilot Assessment
Assessing the utility of an institutional publications officer: a pilot assessment Kelly D. Cobey1,2,3, James Galipeau1, Larissa Shamseer1,2 and David Moher1,2 1 Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada 2 School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventative Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada 3 School of Natural Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom ABSTRACT Background. The scholarly publication landscape is changing rapidly. We investigated whether the introduction of an institutional publications officer might help facilitate better knowledge of publication topics and related resources, and effectively support researchers to publish. Methods. In September 2015, a purpose-built survey about researchers' knowledge and perceptions of publication practices was administered at five Ottawa area research institutions. Subsequently, we publicly announced a newly hired publications officer (KDC) who then began conducting outreach at two of the institutions. Specifically, the publications officer gave presentations, held one-to-one consultations, developed electronic newsletter content, and generated and maintained a webpage of resources. In March 2016, we re-surveyed our participants regarding their knowledge and perceptions of publishing. Mean scores to the perception questions, and the percent of correct responses to the knowledge questions, pre and post survey, were computed for each item. The difference between these means or calculated percentages was then examined across the survey measures. Results. 82 participants completed both surveys. Of this group, 29 indicated that they had exposure to the publications officer, while the remaining 53 indicated they did not. Interaction with the publications officer led to improvements in half of the knowledge items (7/14 variables). -
Consistent Variations in Personality Traits and Their Potential for Genetic Improvement in The
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.21.257881. this version posted August 23, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Consistent variations in personality traits and their potential for genetic improvement in the 2 biocontrol agent Trichogramma evanescens 3 4 Silène Lartiguea,b,c, Myriam Yalaouib, Jean Belliardb, Claire Caravelb, Louise Jeandrozb, 5 Géraldine Groussierb, Vincent Calcagnob, Philippe Louâprec, François-Xavier Dechaume- 6 Moncharmontd, Thibaut Malausab and Jérôme Moreauc, e 7 8 a ENGREF AgroParisTech, Paris, France 9 10 b UMR Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, INRAE, UCA, CNRS, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France 11 12 c UMR CNRS 6282 Biogéosciences, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 6 Boulevard 13 Gabriel, 21000 Dijon, France 14 15 d Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, 69622 16 Villeurbanne, France 17 18 e Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372, CNRS & La Rochelle Université, 79360 19 Villiers-en-bois, France 20 21 * Corresponding author: S. Lartigue, UMR Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, INRAE, UCA, 22 CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, France. E-mail address: [email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.21.257881. this version posted August 23, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 23 Abstract 24 Improvements in the biological control of agricultural pests require improvements in the 25 phenotyping methods used by practitioners to select efficient biological control agent (BCA) 26 populations in industrial rearing or field conditions. -
Connecting Leading Candidates to the World's Finest Science Jobs, Events
Connecting leading candidates to the world’s finest science jobs, events and other career development resources Click on the to navigate the pages PROMOTE YOUR RECRUITMENT ORGANIZATION EVENTS FILL YOUR VACANCIES BRANDED CONTENT & PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS Our Audience & Reach NATIVE ADVERTISING Multichannel marketing Job listing packages Custom Advertorials Nature Events Guide Employer Profile & Index Profile MULTICHANNEL MARKETING Custom Podcasts & Webcasts EXHIBIT AT CAREER EVENTS Banners *optimized targeting* Case Studies Careers Live Emails London • New York • Singapore Print EDITORIAL FEATURES Spotlights and Career Guides REGIONAL RECRUITMENT Salary Survey, Graduate Survey, Scientist At Work photo competition 2019 OTHER CALENDAR ABOUT US RESOURCES EDITORIAL CALENDAR NATURE CAREERS SPECS Print Specs NATURE RESEARCH Banner Specs Third Party Email Specs Alerts Specs SPRINGER NATURE TERMS & CONDITIONS CONTACT US UK/ROW: +44 (0)20 7843 4961 US: +1 212 726 9270 [email protected] 2 | Nature Careers 2019 Media Options RECRUITMENT PROMOTIONS EVENTS CALENDAR ABOUT US OTHER RESOURCES RECRUITMENT FILL YOUR VACANCIES Our Audience & Reach Job listing packages MULTICHANNEL MARKETING Banners *optimized targeting* Email Print REGIONAL RECRUITMENT 3 | Recruitment | Nature Careers 2019 Media Options RECRUITMENT PROMOTIONS EVENTS CALENDAR ABOUT US OTHER RESOURCES OUR AUDIENCE & REACH Nature Careers Nature Careers is the global career resource, jobs board and events directory for scientists. It is brought to you by Springer Nature, a leading publisher -
Open Science in Archaeology
Marwick, B. et al. (2017) Open science in archaeology. SAA Archaeological Record, 17(4), pp. 8-14. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/148887/ Deposited on: 29 September 2017 Enlighten – Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk Open Science in Archaeology Ben Marwick*, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, C. Michael Barton, Lynsey A. Bates, Michael Baxter, Andrew Bevan, Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Tom Brughmans, Alison K. Carter, Cyler Conrad, Daniel A. Contreras, Stefano Costa, Enrico R. Crema, Adrianne Daggett, Benjamin Davies, B. Lee Drake, Thomas S. Dye, Phoebe France, Richard Fullagar, Domenico Giusti, Shawn Graham, Matthew D. Harris, John Hawks, Sebastian Heath, Damien Huffer, Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Mark E. Madsen, Jennifer Melcher, Joan Negre, Fraser D. Neiman, Rachel Opitz, David C. Orton, Paulina Przystupa, Maria Raviele, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Philip Riris, Iza Romanowska, Néhémie Strupler, Isaac I. Ullah, Hannah G. Van Vlack, Ethan C. Watrall, Chris Webster, Joshua Wells, Judith Winters, Colin D. Wren * corresponding author, [email protected] Introduction In archaeology, we are accustomed to investing great effort into collecting data from fieldwork, museum collections, and other sources, followed by detailed description, rigorous analysis, and in many cases ending with publication of our findings in short, highly concentrated reports or journal articles. Very often, these publications are all that is visible of this lengthy process, and even then, most of our journal articles are only accessible to scholars at institutions paying subscription fees to the journal publishers. -
Estimated Costs of Implementing an Open Access Policy at a Private Foundation
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/128413; this version posted August 17, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Estimated costs of implementing an open access policy at a private foundation 1 2 Carly Strasser and Eesha Khare 1 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA 2 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Corresponding author: Carly Strasser1 Email address: [email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/128413; this version posted August 17, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Abstract Background: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) was interested in understanding the potential effects of a policy requiring open access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from the research the foundation funds. Methods: We collected data on more than 2000 publications in over 500 journals that were generated by GBMF grantees since 2001. We then examined the journal policies to establish how two possible open -
Core Competencies for Scientific Editors Of
Moher et al. BMC Medicine (2017) 15:167 DOI 10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0 CORRESPONDENCE Open Access Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement David Moher1,2* , James Galipeau3, Sabina Alam4, Virginia Barbour5, Kidist Bartolomeos6, Patricia Baskin7,8, Sally Bell-Syer9,10, Kelly D. Cobey1,2,11, Leighton Chan12, Jocalyn Clark13, Jonathan Deeks14, Annette Flanagin15, Paul Garner16, Anne-Marie Glenny17, Trish Groves18, Kurinchi Gurusamy19, Farrokh Habibzadeh20,21,22, Stefanie Jewell-Thomas23, Diane Kelsall24, José Florencio Lapeña Jr22,25,26,27, Harriet MacLehose28, Ana Marusic29,30, Joanne E. McKenzie31, Jay Shah32,33,34, Larissa Shamseer1,2, Sharon Straus35, Peter Tugwell2,36,37, Elizabeth Wager38,39, Margaret Winker22 and Getu Zhaori40 Abstract Background: Scientific editors are responsible for deciding which articles to publish in their journals. However, we have not found documentation of their required knowledge, skills, and characteristics, or the existence of any formal core competencies for this role. Methods: We describe the development of a minimum set of core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals. Results: The 14 key core competencies are divided into three major areas, and each competency has a list of associated elements or descriptions of more specific knowledge, skills, and characteristics that contribute to its fulfillment. Conclusions: We believe that these core competencies are a baseline of the knowledge, skills, and characteristics needed to perform competently the duties of a scientific editor at a biomedical journal. Keywords: Core competencies, Scientific editor, Biomedical journal, Delphi, Expert consensus, Editor role Introduction and in guidance for members of editor organizations Scientific editors (editors are responsible for the content [3–8].