Virtually all top medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest, but few—just 12%—apply that same medicine to their own editors by publicly disclosing editors’ financial ties to industry, a study has found
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Bioethicists Launch ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’February 25, 2019 |
One of the more innovative recent initiatives in academic publishing is the Journal of Controversial Ideas. Not a single issue has appeared, but already it has created a lively debate in op-ed columns. Its most contentious feature is anonymous or pseudonymous contributions
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It’s a well-known problem with clinical trials: Researchers start out saying they will look for a particular outcome—heart attacks, for example—but then report something else when they publish their results
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Scientists Struggle With Confusing Journal GuidelinesNovember 8, 2018 |
Global survey finds that unclear publishing policies place an additional burden on many scientists who don’t speak English as a first language
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Honors for Racist ScientistsSeptember 7, 2017 |
As debate over statues and building names moves from Confederate generals to researchers, editorial in Nature receives intense backlash
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The Findings of Medical Research Are Disseminated Too SlowlyMarch 24, 2017 |
That is about to change. On January 1st, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation brought into force a policy, foreshadowed two years earlier, that research it supports must, when published, be freely available to all. On March 23rd it followed this up by announcing that it will pay the cost of putting such research in one particular repository of freely available papers
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Predatory Journals Recruit Fake EditorMarch 23, 2017 |
An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered ‘Dr Fraud’ — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board. Katarzyna Pisanski and colleagues report
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Gender Bias Distorts Peer Review Across FieldsMarch 22, 2017 |
In many scientific fields, women publish fewer papers than men, are less likely to be listed as first authors and are less likely to receive glowing letters of recommendation from their advisers. These disparities have decreased over time, but they persist. Now, a study finds that some journal editors might be inadvertently taking gender into account when selecting reviewers for papers.
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