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In the news: April 2018 Digest
…critiqued vigorously by Vines, notes “Its perhaps ironic that a paper finding no value in peer review is so flawed that its conclusions are untenable, yet its publication in a journal is itself an indictment of peer review”. Vines notes three immediate problems: (i) the authors didn’t test the hypothesis that “more vigorous peer review = more text changes” so they cannot conclude that journal peer review… - News
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In the news: August 2018 Digest
…(rather than qualitative) metrics on research output and prevention of misconduct, but at the end of the day conclude that nothing will really change until universities are no longer dominated by capitalism.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/07/capitalism… - News
In the news: December Digest
…-we-choose-to-align-open-access-to-research-with-geo-political-borders-we-negate-the-moral-value-of-open-access/ A 2016 survey with a 17% response rate (507 of 3000) researchers in the Global South from the AuthorAID network explored their attitudes and experiences with open access publishing. About 40% noted limited or no access to academic literature. 89% always use Google to search for literature. 17% had deposited research into institutional repositories. 70% thought that OA research was useful or… - News
Case discussion: self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing
…style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">text recycling guidelines, suggested remedial steps for text recycling in a published paper are correction or, rarely, retraction of the later publication. Currently, no action is expected from the publisher of the first source. However, in the present case, journal A posted a notice in paper A about text recycling, presumably citing/linking to paper B. Perhaps the… Membership application FAQ
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Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…received a variety of nuanced responses. However, no one gave a definite ‘yes’. Respondents mentioned benefits like the discovery of unintended flaws and study limitations, the value of external inspection, the possibility of identifying biases including racism (assuming that peer review is itself sufficiently diverse – which it is generally recognised not to be), and increasing trust in the system and…