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This is the first empirical study of major academic journals’ willingness to publish a cohort of comparable and objective correction letters on misreported high-impact studies.
Concern for and interest in research integrity has increased significantly during recent decades, both in academic and in policy discourse.
On the task of changing scientific research into open scientific research and commiting to Open Science principles.
An easy to apply, universally comparable and fair metric to measure and report co-authors contribution in the scientific literature.
How to make widespread open data a reality.
A recently published study in Research Integrity and Peer Review, that surveyed 178 trainee doctors, finds that although peer review is perceived as an important means of quality control by this community, there is little value placed on being able to scrutinize peer review themselves.
What results-free review might mean for authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
The report from SpotOn, 'What might peer review look like in 2030?' has now been published. This blog contains a section on the history of peer review from Frank Norman. Read the full report from SpotOn 2016 here.
Withholding results to address publication bias in peer-review
Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data.
Many reviewers feel that some form of public acknowledgment is more valuable than monetary payment when it comes to their services.
How editors conduct peer review, how this process is evolving and whether we can trust the new players entering the field, the responsibilities of reviewers and how to recognize and reward all the effort put in to peer review.
This study outlines the development of a gender index, focused on gender roles and institutionalised gender, using secondary survey data from the Canadian Labour Force survey. Using this index we then examined the distribution of gender index scores among men and women, and changes in gender roles among male and female labour force participants between 1997 and 2014.
Launch of Research Integrity and Peer Review, a new open-access journal that will provide a home to research on ethics, reporting, and evaluation of research.
Towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials
We discuss the views and experiences of our Editorial Board Members towards open peer review on this biomedical journal.
