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How important is the Impact Factor?
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How important is the Impact Factor?
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October 1, 2014
I recently was sent a report from a university-wide working group on the publishing habits within the Freie Universität Berlin. I don’t think this document is available online, but I think I’m not doing anything illegal if I publish some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Booming university administrations
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January 7, 2015
This is a post loosely based on an article appearing today in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” by Axel Brennicke and me. The raw data for our analysis is available. Please do let us know if you find a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
If only all science were this reproducible
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If only all science were this reproducible
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April 21, 2015
For our course this year I was planning a standard neurogenetic experiment. I hadn’t ever done this experiment in a course, yet, just two weeks ago I tried it once myself, with an N=1. The students would get two groups […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Everybody already knows journal rank is bunk
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June 3, 2013
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...
Everybody already knows journal rank is bunk
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Libraries are better than corporate publishers because…
Björn
Brembs
August 28, 2013
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...
Libraries are better than corporate publishers because…
The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
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The cost of the rejection-resubmission cycle
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September 10, 2013
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
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Brembs
August 30, 2013
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...
The danger of universal gold open access
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Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
Björn
Brembs
June 17, 2014
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...
Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
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How scientific are scientists, really?
Björn
Brembs
February 14, 2014
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...
How scientific are scientists, really?
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Conflicts of interest even for ‘good’ scholarly publishers
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April 17, 2014
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
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June 24, 2014
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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