Björn Brembs
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Everybody already knows journal rank is bunk
Björn Brembs June 3, 2013
doi:10.59350/rwwae-9g815
Today, finally, our manuscript on journal rank is accepted for publication at Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. One may wonder how a paper that reviews the empirical findings around journal rank ends up in a journal about human neuroscience. After all, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Libraries are better than corporate publishers because…
Björn Brembs August 28, 2013
doi:10.59350/jfyhf-jgs20
During my flyfishing vacation last year, pretty much nothing was happening on this blog. Now that I’ve migrated the blog to WordPress, I can actually schedule posts to appear when in fact I’m not even at the computer. I’m using […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
Björn Brembs September 10, 2013
doi:10.59350/24dd3-87b04
Rejection is one of the unpleasant but inevitable components of life. There are positive components to rejection: they build character, they force you to deal with negativity and sometimes they force you to change your life to avoid future rejections. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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The danger of universal gold open access
Björn Brembs August 30, 2013
doi:10.59350/sqek8-kqr58
During my flyfishing vacation last year, pretty much nothing was happening on this blog. Now that I’ve migrated the blog to WordPress, I can actually schedule posts to appear when in fact I’m not even at the computer. I’m using […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
Björn Brembs June 17, 2014
doi:10.59350/kgdgs-4yz55
There is an interesting study out in the journal PNAS: “Evaluating big deal journal bundles“. The study details the disparity in negotiation skills between different US institutions when haggling with publishers about subscription pricing. For Science Magazine, John Bohannon of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How scientific are scientists, really?
Björn Brembs February 14, 2014
doi:10.59350/b9m99-pw746
In what area of scholarship are repeated replications of always the same experiment every time published and then received with surprise, only to immediately be completely ignored until the next study? Point in case from an area that ought to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Conflicts of interest even for ‘good’ scholarly publishers
Björn Brembs April 17, 2014
doi:10.59350/hx2pe-z0607
Thinking more generally about the “Recursive Fury” debacle, something struck me as somewhat of an eye opener: the lack of support for the authors by Frontiers and the demonstrative support by their institution, UWA (posting the retracted article). Even though […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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No need to only send your best work to Science Magazine
Björn Brembs June 24, 2014
doi:10.59350/13ewc-vy568
The data clearly show that publications in Cell, Nature or Science (CNS for short), on average, cannot be distinguished from other publications, be it by methodology, reproducibility or other measures of quality. Even their citation advantage, while statistically significant, is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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If you comment online, you’re on stage
Björn Brembs May 8, 2014
doi:10.59350/b0e9k-ahc61
Apparently, the outrage of science denialists over their exposure in a recent psychological paper shows no signs of abating. It was denialists’ complaints and legal threats of libel/defamation suits that started the investigation of the paper and also in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Why use fruit flies to study a gene involved in language?
Björn Brembs June 26, 2014
doi:10.59350/ksrvn-c1w22
This is the story behind our work on the function of the FoxP gene in the fruit fly Drosophila (more background info). As so many good things, it started with beer. Troy Zars and I were having a beer on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Humanized FoxP2 and the timing of habits
Björn Brembs September 15, 2014
doi:10.59350/aznad-2ha95
Last week, Elizabeth Pennisi asked me to comment on the recent paper from Schreiweis et al. entitled “Humanized FoxP2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance”. Since I don’t know how much, if anything, of my answers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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