Here I gather up papers and blog posts on the rapid shift in scientific publication and credit
Why you should use beautiful language in papers
Following an amazing talk on how to write by @StephenBHeard of U New Brunswick a Nature reporter picked up @redlipblenny's tweet and wrote
A call for beautiful prose in papers: A blog post urging scientists to write elegantly triggers online discussion.
See comments to find Stephen's work
http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/5310
http://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/
My favorite quote:
"To an individual mite, the world is a series of flowers connected by hummingbirds; the mite is like a perpetual airline passenger required to take all nourishment (and accomplish all reproduction) in airport restaurants", Colwell RK. 1973. Competition and coexistence in a simple tropical community. American Naturalist 107: 751.
A call for beautiful prose in papers: A blog post urging scientists to write elegantly triggers online discussion.
See comments to find Stephen's work
http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/5310
http://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/
My favorite quote:
"To an individual mite, the world is a series of flowers connected by hummingbirds; the mite is like a perpetual airline passenger required to take all nourishment (and accomplish all reproduction) in airport restaurants", Colwell RK. 1973. Competition and coexistence in a simple tropical community. American Naturalist 107: 751.
How to find papers
Make your own twitter bot https://github.com/roblanf/phypapers/blob/master/README.md
Authorship and credit
Contributorship badges: a new project by Mozilla
Allen L, Brand AR, J. S, Altman M, Hlava M. 2014. Credit where credit is due. Nature 508: 312-313.
Allen L, Brand AR, J. S, Altman M, Hlava M. 2014. Credit where credit is due. Nature 508: 312-313.
When a 'reject' is not a 'reject' -- publication times matter to journals
Dear Royal Society, please stop lying to us about publication times
Post-publication and portable peer review
Jeremy Fox from Dynamic ecology on Post-publication “review”: signs of the times
What is portable peer-review Game of Papers: eLife, BMC, PLoS and EMBO Announce New Peer Review Consortium
What is portable peer-review Game of Papers: eLife, BMC, PLoS and EMBO Announce New Peer Review Consortium
#Luxury Journals and measures of impact
The Use of Altmetrics in Promotion and Tenure, Stacy Konkiel,Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Sierra Williams
Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, Rafols 2015 Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Nature 520: 429-431.
Do ‘altmetrics’ correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations
from a multidisciplinary perspective -- paper
Article level metrics (ALM) Many Metrics. Such Data. Wow.
The impact of Randy Schekman abandoning Science and Nature and Cell
Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals The Guardian, 9th December 2013
Şekercioğlu, Ç. H. (2013) Citation opportunity cost of the high impact factor obsession. Current Biology, 23, R701-R702.
Do alternative metrics (Altmetrics) work - see the PLoS Altmetrics Collection
Attribution Stacking -- Flawed citation counts, and the absence of recording data-source citations. An open letter to
An Open Letter to ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and SciVerse Scopus
Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, Rafols 2015 Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics. Nature 520: 429-431.
Do ‘altmetrics’ correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations
from a multidisciplinary perspective -- paper
Article level metrics (ALM) Many Metrics. Such Data. Wow.
The impact of Randy Schekman abandoning Science and Nature and Cell
Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals The Guardian, 9th December 2013
Şekercioğlu, Ç. H. (2013) Citation opportunity cost of the high impact factor obsession. Current Biology, 23, R701-R702.
Do alternative metrics (Altmetrics) work - see the PLoS Altmetrics Collection
Attribution Stacking -- Flawed citation counts, and the absence of recording data-source citations. An open letter to
An Open Letter to ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and SciVerse Scopus
Open access
Is that journal Open access, green access or what? Check out the SHERPA/RoMEO database
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy: How the SFU Library Can Help
Canadian Researchers’ Publishing Attitudes and Behaviours: A Phase 5 Report
Anurag A. Agrawal Four more reasons to be skeptical of open-access publishing
PLOS profits prompt revamp Nature 22nd November 2013
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated
New journals that are changing the way we publish, by Ethan White
The PloS Biology collection on Open Access publishing
PeerJ - author experiences after the first 6 months
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy: How the SFU Library Can Help
Canadian Researchers’ Publishing Attitudes and Behaviours: A Phase 5 Report
Anurag A. Agrawal Four more reasons to be skeptical of open-access publishing
PLOS profits prompt revamp Nature 22nd November 2013
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals, recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated
New journals that are changing the way we publish, by Ethan White
The PloS Biology collection on Open Access publishing
PeerJ - author experiences after the first 6 months
Preprints
British Ecological Society's preprint policy now allows and encourages use of preprint servers, "posting an article on the author’s personal website or in an institutional repository" does not constitute prior publication and hence such articles can be submitted for consideration.
Desjardins-Proulx, P., White, E. P., Adamson, J. J., Ram, K., Poisot, T. and Gravel, D. (2013) The Case for Open Preprints in Biology. PLoS Biol, 11, e1001563
Desjardins-Proulx, P., White, E. P., Adamson, J. J., Ram, K., Poisot, T. and Gravel, D. (2013) The Case for Open Preprints in Biology. PLoS Biol, 11, e1001563
Open data and transparent analysis
Data Citation and Attribution on DataONE
Strasser, C., Cook, R., Michener, W., & Budden, A. (2012). Primer on data management: What you always wanted to know. A DataONE publication
White, E. P., Baldridge, E., Brym, Z. T., Locey, K. J., McGlinn, D. J. and Supp, S. R. (2013) Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data. PeerJ PrePrints, 1, e7v2.
Ram, K. (2013) Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 8, 7.
Examples of transparent analysis
Gamfeldt, L., Lefcheck, J. S., Byrnes, J. E. K., Cardinale, B. J., Duffy, J. E., & Griffin, J. N. (2014). Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what’s known and what’s next? PeerJ PrePrints, 2, e249v1. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.249v1
Earn, D. J. D., Andrews, P. W., & Bolker, B. M. (2014). Population-level effects of suppressing fever. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281(1778), 20132570–20132570. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2570
Strasser, C., Cook, R., Michener, W., & Budden, A. (2012). Primer on data management: What you always wanted to know. A DataONE publication
White, E. P., Baldridge, E., Brym, Z. T., Locey, K. J., McGlinn, D. J. and Supp, S. R. (2013) Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data. PeerJ PrePrints, 1, e7v2.
Ram, K. (2013) Git can facilitate greater reproducibility and increased transparency in science. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 8, 7.
Examples of transparent analysis
Gamfeldt, L., Lefcheck, J. S., Byrnes, J. E. K., Cardinale, B. J., Duffy, J. E., & Griffin, J. N. (2014). Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what’s known and what’s next? PeerJ PrePrints, 2, e249v1. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.249v1
Earn, D. J. D., Andrews, P. W., & Bolker, B. M. (2014). Population-level effects of suppressing fever. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281(1778), 20132570–20132570. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.2570
