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Peer review innovation lead at Elsevier;
chair of Peer Review Workbench @peerreviewresearch.bsky.social
Vice president of EASE @easeeditors.bsky.social
Posting on #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #PRW #Academiclife #climatejustic
- Reposted by BA}{ARAmong 134 higher-impact journals, 36 required, 98 recommended #datasharing. Most studies intended to share data for purposes and by mechanisms at the discretion of and subject to approval by the PI, without supporting documents or specified timeframes
- When asked what do you do if an author doesn't adhere to your policy Robert Thibault indicates "we provide annual summary of their open science activities: here is what you could have done, and here is what you have done". It works! #openscience #PRC10
- @asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org’s #OpenScience policy and compliance workflow — requiring grantees to post preprints, deposit research outputs, unambiguously i.d. research inputs — led to increases in all outcomes and activities. peerreviewcongress.o...
- Reposted by BA}{AREthical review boards in Sweden handled 20,440 applications 2021-23, mostly amendments, primarily from health care systems (51%), universities (42%), & corporations (3%). COVID-19 studies had expedited processing times (median t to decision, 51 vs 63d; P < .001). @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @ki.se
- Reposted by BA}{ARIn 2014-23 China experienced rapid growth in RCTs, surpassing Japan & the US. Neoplastic, CV, metabolic disease accounted for the largest percentages, each representing ~15-25% of all registered trials. In the US, mental health trials increased, reflecting growing interest in the area.
- Reposted by BA}{AR@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org’s #OpenScience policy and compliance workflow — requiring grantees to post preprints, deposit research outputs, unambiguously i.d. research inputs — led to increases in all outcomes and activities. peerreviewcongress.o...
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- Reposted by BA}{ARThe Peer Review Workbench #dataset is updated with all Elsevier #journals & manuscripts metadata from January 2018 to December 2024! www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... Meet the advisory board at #Metascience2025 next week! #PeerReview #PeerReviewWorkbench #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #Transparency
- How do you check on your loved ones when there is a total operation outage in their country?
- peer review committee of @easeeditors.bsky.social published a new item in its toolkit guiding journals on how to assess peer review quality: ease.org.uk/communities/... @mariomalicki.bsky.social @jadrankaos.bsky.social #Peerreview #quality
- The peer review congress in Chicago @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social announced its program. I won't travel to the US in these uncertain times. Don't miss @mariomalicki.bsky.social presentation of our work #peerreview peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-...
- Are you an author who has gone through a journal peer review process but hasn’t done any peer review? I would like to know what do you think about peer review quality in a 1- hour online interview session. DM me if you’re willing to share #peerreview#quality
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- Peer review workbench dataset is updated! We have all Elsevier jnls and manuscripts metadata from 1-1-2019 to 1-1-2025! Check our updated white paper here: ssrn.com/abstract=421... @peerreviewresearch.bsky.social @mariomalicki.bsky.social @easeeditors.bsky.social @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social
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- Warning!! This is a self-promotion post: @easeeditors.bsky.social has a new president: ease.org.uk/about-us/his...
- A new and insightful systematic review on #peerreviewquality that is a wealth of tips, best practices, guidelines, and instructions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- The editors of Intelligence-based medicine (published by Elsevier) warn about using Gen AI in the manuscript peer review process:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652122500050X #GenAI #peerreview
- Reposted by BA}{ARDay 3 at #easeconference. My colleague @morebrains.coop, @alicemeadows.bsky.social giving the keynote on author identity in the age of misinformation
- Reposted by BA}{ARIryna Izarova of University of Ukraine is presenting on the challenges of conducting scientific publishing in an occupied country. Appropriation of research and publications robs countries of their intellectual identity and violates academic freedom. #easeconference
- Reposted by BA}{ARReally important points by Sofie Wennström, speaking about @thinkchecksub.bsky.social at #easeconference. In the discussion about author behaviour when it comes to predatory journals, poor university / employer support and training isn't talked about enough
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- I’m thinking of putting a working group proposal together for NISO to standardize the terminology @nicolinevdl.bsky.social @nisoinfo.bsky.social
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- EASE conference keynote speaker Camilla Stoltenberg: Only when scientists are open and transparent about their findings and the way science works the public starts to trust science #EASEevent #trustinscience www.linkedin.com/posts/easeed...
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- Another post by @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social on dealing with mis- and dis-information: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Scholarly Communication (Part 2) but this time it can't be opened (see the screenshot) #misinformation #disinformation Is this intentional @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social ?
- An excellent editorial describing what the journal expects from its authors to maintain the quality of the peer review and diversify its reviewer poll #PeerReview @easeeditors.bsky.social www.jasss.org/28/1/6.html
- A new extensive toolkit for editors who use the Find Reviewer Tool is now available online #PeerReview www.elsevier.com/editor/submi...
- you might have seen this paper investigating the effect of Publons' annual to 1% reviewer award on these academics' future reviews: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PeerReview
- I turned our Structured Peer Review questions into a checklist that all interested editors and reviewers can use to evaluate a manuscript #PeerRevieew #ScienceEditing @mariomalicki.bsky.social @easeeditors.bsky.social ese.arphahub.com/article/1376...
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- Good read by @mikethelwall.bsky.social reviewing where #AI and other software can fully or partially automate aspects of the academic publication process, including post-publication quality evaluation #PeerReview #PeerReviewWorkbench #ResearchInPeerReview doi.org/10.1002/leap...
- Reposted by BA}{ARWant to get editing experience? If you have a PhD & are a member of a group that’s historically underrepresented in editorial roles, apply for a 1 yr editorial fellowship at one of APS’s journals (including Psych Science)! Deadline 7 Feb. Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
- Reposted by BA}{ARThe PRC10 abstract submission site is now open! Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority. Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org @jama.com @bmj.com
- Reposted by BA}{ARNot every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
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- Those with common European names won’t get my joy of spotting my Persian name on a Dutch children book 😌 credit goes to my daughter who saw the book and made this picture 🥰
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- My apple tree I grew from the seed of a tasty apple soon will be three yeas old. Seems I have to manage my expectations but luckily not those of the birds and the bees!
- Abstract submission to the 10th Peer Review Congress is open until the end of January. Consider sharing your #PeerReviewResearch through this unique venue! @easeeditors.bsky.social @peerreviewresearch.bsky.social #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #PRC10
- The PRC10 abstract submission site is now open! Abstracts that report new research & findings w generalizable results that can improve scientific research will be given priority. Submit by Jan 31, 2025 at abstracts.peerreviewcongress.org Learn more at peerreviewcongress.org @jama.com @bmj.com
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- "Findings suggest that research assessments could benefit from measuring uptake in policy-related literature, following additional characterization of the Overton database and of the contribution of these interactions within the larger policymaking process." direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
- majour discussion point at WCRI 2024 was that researchers from Africa don't trust sharing their data openly because they don't seem to get the recognition for it. Specifically when the research community of the global north re-useses their data without citing/acknowoledgment #Ethics #OpenScience
- Attitudes of medical journals toward AI-assisted peer review: A minority of journals (32%) allow limited AI use, but disclosure standards varies. Critical areas like innovation, reproducibility, and reference management still underdiscussed." #peerreview #AI jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- "We analyze the computational reproducibility of +1000 empirical answers to 6 research questions in finance provided by 168 research teams. Running the researchers’ code on the same raw data regenerates exactly the same results 52% of the time." #Reproducibility academic.oup.com/rfs/article-...
- "the first large-scale dataset of withdrawn papers from arXiv, containing over 14,000 papers and their associated retraction comments spanning the repository's entire history through September 2024." #researchintegrity #ethcis arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
- Reposted by BA}{AROn this day in 1981, a landmark paper in NEJM described four patients with evidence of immunodeficiency associated with PJP pneumonia, disseminated CMV, and Kaposi sarcoma. The disease would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Revisit the paper: nej.md/41iekKD #MedSky #IDSky
- Reposted by BA}{ARIs anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way.
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- Hats off @abalkina.bsky.social
- This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud Anna Abalkina @abalkina.bsky.social is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024. Holly Else reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Add your comments to the feedback form. We at @ease want to add how to address paper mills to our toolkit to editors. Our draft is open for the public to comment #papermills #researchintegrity
- “access to information is a pragmatic question as well as an ideological one – and this implies the importance of not allowing ideology to blind us (and especially policy makers) to pragmatic realities. ONOS is a shining example of the victory of pragmatism over ideology.” #OpenScience #OpenAccess
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- "As long as the phenomenally perpetual philosophy called ‘publish or perish’ dictates scholarship, there will be no problem in receiving manuscripts for any journal." @irfanullah.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social #ethics #researchIntegrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/09/e...
- our peer review checklist is hot off the press @easeeditors.bsky.social ese.arphahub.com/article/1376... It guides researchers throughout their peer review process. We also provide recommendations to journal editors and publishers on how best to provide it upon sending review invites #PeerReview
- "The Peer Review Workbench dataset offers several years' worth of carefully anonymized journal manuscript and peer review data, containing rich and connected information on more than 5 million authors and reviewers." Check it out: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... #PeerReview #PRW #ResearchInPeerReview
- Peer Review Workbench community on @ssrn.bsky.social is live now: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... Read more about #PRW dataset, currently working applications, and our proposal submission protocol #PeerReview #ResearchInPeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #Bias
- A manifestation of how biases and privileges are presented as "hard work" and "prioritization skills" 🙄 #Academiclife #bias
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- A significant portion of the articles published in 2023 by most of the publishers involved in the ONOS deal were already open access
- “pakjesavond” present to you who make Bluesky a great place to keep updated: youtu.be/Vd7tsQE5aQY?...
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- "When surveyed, our patient and public reviewers told us they valued the BMJ online subscription. This is why we will offer patient and public reviewers the choice between a £50 payment or a 12 month online subscription to another BMJ journal." @bmj.com #peerrview www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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- Do I not know how to get my mouse back from the reference list to the sentence it took me there or is th technology yet to build a solution on pdf/XML format of a paper? Why the escalator is working only one-way? #scholarlypublishing
- The trouble is we tend to forget science is biased towards/against powar, hirarchy, and presetigue #researchintegrity
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- Wow!The best or if I may the one and only scholarly advent calendar I have seen. Open a window a day and learn a new thing on #researcheintegrity #ethics #hijackedjournals #peerreview #scholarlypublishing
- Happy Advent. Day 2. I created a very special Advent Calendar to spot problems with papers and journals. papermills.tilda.ws/advent
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- As a kid I used to ask why all big names in science are male not knowing how suppressive and misogynistic the history of science was
- “Umbrella reviews typically follow a rigorous methodology. This includes a thorough search of the literature, the use of explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria, the assessment of the risk of bias in the included studies, and the use of appropriate statistical methods to synthesize the findings.”
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