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iaravps

Research 2.0.3: The future of research communication : Soapbox Science - 0 views

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  • Open Access has led directly to an increase in usage of platforms that make is easy for researchers to comply with this mandate by depositing open access versions of their papers. Examples of companies in this space are Academia.edu, ResearchGate.net and Mendeley.  Open Access also means that anyone can contribute to the post-publication evaluation of research articles.
  • There are a number of initiatives focused on improving the process of peer review. Post-publication peer review, in which journals publish papers after minimal vetting and then encourage commentary from the scientific community, has been explored by several publishers, but has run into difficulties incentivizing sufficient numbers of experts to participate.  Initiatives like Faculty of 1000 have tried to overcome this by corralling experts as part of post-publication review boards.  And sometimes, as in the case of arsenic-based life, the blogosphere has taken peer review into its own hands.
  • Traditionally the number of first and senior author publications, and the journal(s) in which those publications appear, has been the key criteria for assessing the quality of a researcher’s work. This is used by funding agencies to determine whether to award research grants to conduct their future work, as well as by academic research institutions to inform hiring and career progression decisions. However, this is actually a very poor measure of a researcher’s true impact since a) it only captures a fraction of a researcher’s contribution and b) since more than 70% of published research cannot be reproduced, the publication based system rewards researchers for the wrong thing (the publication of novel research, rather than the production of robust research).
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  • The h-index was one of the first alternatives proposed as a measure of scientific research impact.  It and its variants rely on citation statistics, which is a good start, but includes a delay which can be quite long, depending on the rapidity with which papers are published in a particular field.  There are a number of startups that are attempting to improve the way a researcher’s reputation is measured. One is ImpactStory which is attempting to aggregate metrics from researcher’s articles, datasets, blog posts, and more. Another is ResearchGate.net which has developed its own RG Score.
  • Which set of reputational signifiers rise to the top will shape the future of science itself.
david osimo

Filter-then-publish vs. publish-then-filter | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week - 2 views

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  • david osimo on 03 Nov 13
     
    "Unlike many journals which attempt to use the peer review process to determine whether or not an article reaches the level of 'importance' required by a given journal, PLoS ONE uses peer review to determine whether a paper is technically sound and worthy of inclusion in the published scientific record. Once the work is published in PLoS ONE, the broader community is then able to discuss and evaluate the significance of the article (through the number of citations it attracts; the downloads it achieves; the media and blog coverage it receives; and the post-publication Notes, Comments and Ratings that it receives on PLoS ONE etc)."
katarzyna szkuta

F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature - 0 views

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  • katarzyna szkuta on 16 Apr 12
     
    The core service of Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance.
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Scholastica: Academic publishing done the right way - 0 views

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  • katarzyna szkuta on 26 Apr 12
     
    Scholastica makes managing an academic journal better and faster. It provides an academic ecosystem around the activities that scholars do in real life - peer review new ideas, decide which to publish, and discuss new ideas to push knowledge ever forward. Simple tools to help manage your scholarly journal Powerfully search and sort all of your journal's manuscripts.
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Figsgare - 0 views

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  • katarzyna szkuta on 26 Apr 12
     
    Figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. By opening up the peer review process, researchers can easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer effect and helping to make scientific research more efficient. Figshare uses creative commons licensing to allow frictionless sharing of research data whilst allowing users to maintain their ownership.
Francesco Mureddu

Planetary Data System (PDS) - NASA Science - 0 views

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  • Francesco Mureddu on 11 May 12
     
    The Planetary Data System (PDS) is an archive of data products from NASA planetary missions, which is sponsored by the NASA Office of Space Science. We actively manage the archive to maximize its usefulness, and it has become a basic resource for scientists around the world. All PDS-produced products are peer-reviewed, well-documented, and easily accessible via a system of online catalogs that are organized by planetary disciplines
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