Improving scientific publishing is often framed as an issue of openness and speed and less often as one of context. In this post, Ludo Waltman and Jessica Polka make the case for a more contextualised approach to open access publishing and preprinting, and introduce the Publish Your Reviews initiative. Launched today by ASAPbio, the initiative allows reviewers to provide richer contextual information to preprints by publishing peer reviews and linking them to the preprint versions of the articles under review
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As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editor...
In a recent Impact Blog post, Jørgen Carling outlined the reasons why he feels the PhD by publicatio...
Justin Gest author of Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media asks why not publish...
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academi...
The current review system for many academic articles is flawed, hindering the publication of excelle...
Extensive revising is required by many journals in the social sciences. It is expected that authors ...
Early-career researchers are subject to higher levels of scrutiny than ever before, with publication...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
Preprints are research reports have that have not yet been peer reviewed and accepted for publicatio...
With more than 34,000 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals, how do authors choose which one to su...
To many authors, the point of publication can feel like the culmination of a process; the moment one...
A recent report from Jisc showcases the upward trend in universities and academics setting up their ...
Academics today have to publish to succeed. In Publish or Perish: Perceived Benefits versus Unintend...
Is the peer review process simply a means by which errors are identified and corrected? Or is it a p...
Professor Fleur Johns offers 10 rules of thumb that have guided her own reviewing efforts and may pr...
As the rate and volume of academic publications has risen, so too has the pressure on journal editor...
In a recent Impact Blog post, Jørgen Carling outlined the reasons why he feels the PhD by publicatio...
Justin Gest author of Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media asks why not publish...