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| | markusmeister.com
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| | About a year ago, the life science journal eLife changed its approach to scientific publishing (see detailshere). The goal was tofocus the activities of the journal on peer review. Perhaps the most consequential change was to abandon the accept/reject decision. Instead, eLife reviews get attached to the author's preprint, along with a brief editorial assessment...
| | ferniglab.wordpress.com
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| | The so-called "sting" by Science on Open Access journals has brought a lot of criticism, some of this is here, and here. For me the best has been Micheal Eisen's post, which uses satire to show that Science was well wide of the mark. As the discussion dies down on the subject, I have had...
| | researchwhisperer.org
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| | Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash Recently, Zhejiang Gonggong University announced that articles published with MDPI, Frontiers Media & Hindawi, the three largest open access publishers, would not be included in research performance statistics. Universities have discouraged or banned staff from publishing in individual journals in the past, but this is the first report of...
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