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Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.
Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
Opinion: In Publishing, Don’t Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good

All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.

All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.

publishing, academia, science publishing

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Q&A: Why eLife Is Doing Away with Rejections
Jef Akst | Oct 21, 2022 | 4 min read
The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.
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Revealing Peer Reviewer Identities Could Introduce Bias: Study
Chloe Tenn | Oct 27, 2021 | 2 min read
An analysis finds that reviewers are more likely to choose to be de-anonymized when their reviews are positive, suggesting instituting a fully open process might discourage negative feedback.
Scientists, Publishers Debate Paychecks for Peer Reviewers
Shawna Williams | Nov 1, 2020 | 8 min read
While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists’ work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea.
Trainees Often Ghostwrite PIs’ Peer Reviews: Survey
Jef Akst | Nov 4, 2019 | 4 min read
Half of early-career researchers say they’d participated in the peer review process with their mentors without getting credit.
Academics Protest China’s Censorship Requests
Shawna Williams | Feb 20, 2018 | 4 min read
Scholars have formed a peer-review boycott to encourage journals to take a firm stance against requests to cull sensitive articles.
ResearchGate Restricts Access to Nearly 2 Million Articles
Catherine Offord | Nov 9, 2017 | 2 min read
The academic social network is bending to pressure from publishing giants that demand it removes copyrighted material from its site.
Lab Size Study Stirs Debate
Bob Grant | Feb 9, 2015 | 1 min read
Do bigger labs churn out more high-impact papers? Not necessarily, according to a new analysis.
Can Publication Records Predict Future PIs?
Tracy Vence | Jun 2, 2014 | 3 min read
Researchers present a tool that uses a scientist’s PubMed data to estimate the probability of becoming a principal investigator in academia.
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