Company hopes to incentivize peer review
No Comments“Peer review underpins the entire academic enterprise. It is the main method of quality control employed by journals. By offering drafts of a paper to anonymous experts, poor arg...
“Towards greater reproducibility f...
The international weekly journal of science Nature released a statement on their website on the 31st of May 2017 declaring a new reporting summary is required alongside every paper published. This new reporting summary is requested in order to encourage transparency, ensure that papers contain suffi...
Contributorship over Authorship
“Publications are an important measure of research productivity for scientists across all disciplines. Publications, and citations to them, are in fact the coin of the realm. Despite the importance of scientific authorship to the professional prospects of scientists, the concept of “authorshipâ€...
The ten principles of using university rankings
No CommentsOn the 17th of May, 2017 the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) released its annual CWTS Leiden Ranking. As a response to the criticism on other well-known rankings such as the Shanghai Ranking and the World University Rankings of Times...
“A scientific organization should be moulded to the needs of science, rather than constrained by organizational traditions”
No CommentsOn the 16th of May 2017 an article of Steven Hyman was released on the website of Nature. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, expresses his view on the way a research institution coul...
Defending Biomedical Science in an Era of Threatened Funding
No Comments“Supporting scientific research should be a top priority of any society that aims to make progress and thrive. Reducing funding for research will adversely affect individual and population health. However, mounting pressure for budget cuts for ...
Funding streams and prioritisation in Dutch university research
No CommentsOn the 1st of May the Rathenau Instituut published a report called Spinning Plates – Funding streams and prioritization in Dutch University research. According to authors Dr. Elizabeth Koier and Prof. dr. Barend van der Meulen “the report offers ...