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The Science Opinion Games: New Conversations, Same Old Voices?
“Women scientists seem to be underrepresented in science activities that make their reflections public.” I wrote that glum-making sentence. It was in an editorial for PLOS Medicine about...
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Peer Review BC (Before Citations)
In theory, science isn’t just self-interested. We’re all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and solve problems. Which is true. But it’s for...
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Weighing Up Anonymity and Openness in Publication Peer Review
Scientists are in a real bind when it comes to peer review. It’s hard to be objective when we’re all among the peer reviewing and peer-reviewed, or plan to be. Still, we should be able to mobilize...
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A Reader’s Guide to Conflicts of Interest in Biomedicine
The academic clinician in this cartoon needs 15 slides to list all the drug and device manufacturers he’s received money from recently. By the time he gets to the end of all that, will you think...
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Flying Flak and Avoiding “ad hominem” Response
It was easy to work out where I stood in a fairly recent outburst of name-calling from one of the pillars of science. I’m totally a data/research parasite! It wasn’t quite so easy to work out where...
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Between Science’s Secretive, Elitist Past and Open, Accessible Future
Editor’s note: Read Hilda’s October 26, 2016 @redditscience conversation on Open Access in Action here plos.io/OAweek16AMA An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an...
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Repost: Weighing Up Anonymity & Openness in Publication Peer Review
“Transparency” is the theme of this year’s Peer Review Week (11-17 September). Moving to transparency in peer review is a major cultural shift for scientific publishing. A cloak of secrecy firmly...
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Bias, Conflicts, Spin: The 8th Olympiad of Research on Science & Publishing...
Once every 4 years editors, publishers, and meta-researchers assemble in Chicago for the Peer Review Congress – an intense researchfest about “enhancing the quality and credibility of science”. I’m...
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Good Enough? Editors, Statistics & Grant Peer Review
Over 500 science journal editors, publishers, and meta-researchers are gathered in Chicago for the 8th Peer Review Congress (#PRC8), a once-every-4-years researchfest about “enhancing the quality and...
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Innovations in Peer Review and Scientific Publishing
Over 500 science journal editors, publishers, and meta-researchers are gathered in Chicago for the 8th Peer Review Congress (#PRC8), a once-every-4-years researchfest about “enhancing the quality and...
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The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals
I get linked into a lot of thought-provoking debates about blinded peer review because of a post I wrote a couple of years ago. It’s kept me thinking and digging into research about bias in...
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Transparency, Recognition, & Innovation: The ASAPbio Peer Review Meeting
All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the quality of “the scientific literature” and the role of peer review in it? ASAPbio has gathered...
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Signing Critical Peer Reviews & the Fear of Retaliation: What Should We Do?
There’s a sort of Godwin’s Law for discussions on open peer review. Sooner or later, someone’s going to say, “We can’t expect early career researchers to sign peer reviews, because of fear of...
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Off to a Patchy Start: Milestones in Journal Peer Review Research, Part 1...
You would think that something as critical to science as peer review in journals would itself have a strong grounding in science, wouldn’t you? But it doesn’t. The quantity of research is meagre,...
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Trials At Last & Even More Questions: Milestones in Journal Peer Review...
The scientific community invests a huge amount of time into peer review at journals, and it’s critical to what we end up reading, and to scientists’ careers. Yet, as we saw in part 1, the...
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5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019
For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into editorial peer review to get off the ground. The earliest experimental study...
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