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Innovating the Science of Science: A report of the ICSSI meeting

A new conference explores ways research can turn the scientific method onto improving its own results.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 28, 2022
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Desperately Seeking (Statistical) Significance

Twitter does not increase citations, a reanalysis of author data shows. Did the authors p-hack their data?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 15, 2022
  • 4 Comments

Fill in the Blank Leads to More Citations

When a reputable journal refuses to get involved with a questionable paper, science looks less like a self-correcting enterprise and more like a way to amass media attention.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jun 8, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Next Steps for CRediT – An Interview with the Co-Chairs

With CRediT now formalized as a standard, Alice Meadows interviews Liz Allen, Simon Kerridge, and Alison McGonagle O’Connell (cochairs of the working group) about what’s next for the taxonomy

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 24, 2022
  • 3 Comments

Is Infrastructure Consolidation the Next Step? CCC Acquires Ringgold

In the light of CCCs acquisition of Ringgold last week, three Chefs, Phill Jones, Roger Schonfeld, and Todd Carpenter reflect on the motivations for the move and its implications for PIDs and organisational identifiers.

  • By Phill Jones, Roger C. Schonfeld, Todd A Carpenter
  • May 10, 2022
  • 7 Comments

Guest Post – New Winds from the Latin American Scientific Publishing Community

Ana Heredia and Eloisa Viggiani discuss the founding of the Latin American Association of Scientific Editors, and focus on the use of metrics and the role of the region’s scientific journals in research evaluation.

  • By Ana Heredia, Eloisa Viggiani
  • Mar 28, 2022
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Research Integrity: Ensuring Trust in Global Research   

A look at developments in research integrity, and the attempt to build a universal culture of ethical and responsible practice in research as well as systems within the overall research ecosystem for such a culture to flourish.

  • By Natalie Simon
  • Feb 10, 2022
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How Do We Make Research Assessment More Responsible? – A Multi-stakeholder Discussion

A report on the SSP Publisher-Funder Task Force’s meeting of senior researchers, university administrators, funders, publishers, and representatives from other organizations on the topic of Responsible Research Assessment for the 21st Century.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Feb 9, 2022
  • 1 Comment

The New Clarivate Science: A Second-Order Consequence of Open Access

Today, Roger C. Schonfeld argues that Clarivate’s acquisition of ProQuest, which was completed last week, is another second-order consequence of open access.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 9, 2021
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Guest Post: Scholarly Book Publishing Workflows and Implications for RIM Systems

The ability to harvest and reuse publications metadata at scale is good for STEM journal articles but poor for monographs, with significant implications for RIM systems. Why is this so? 

  • By Rebecca Bryant, Charles Watkinson, Rebecca Welzenbach
  • Dec 6, 2021
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Does the World Need an Academic Integrity Awareness Index? An Interview with Helen Zhang

An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.

  • By Tao Tao
  • Nov 2, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Guest Post — Introducing Demographic Questions during Manuscript Submission at the American Psychological Association

Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, and Nick Paolini discuss APA’s efforts to collect demographic information during manuscript submission. In this interview, they share what they did, why, how, and what this means for other publishing organizations.

  • By Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, Nick Paolini
  • Oct 14, 2021
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Hacking a Top Journals List: A Collective Approach to Developing Metrics?

A hackathon for the Financial Times Top 50 journals list is underway for those who want to shape how metrics are developed. An interview with Andrew Jack.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Aug 31, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box

Article Attention Scores for papers don’t seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 24, 2021
  • 18 Comments

More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers

For smaller and independent publishers, the Transformative Journal route to Plan S compliance seems like a viable option. At least until you see the reporting requirements.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 22, 2021
  • 6 Comments
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