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Author Archives: Stephen
Higher Education and Research Bill – Letter to my MP
Science is Vital this week launched a campaign to seek amendments to the Higher Education and Research Bill 2016. The bill is a rather dry and procedural piece of legislation but hidden amongst its many sections and schedules are real … Continue reading
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Ways of Seeing
It is the weekend and I have been treating myself to some time with the paper. I usually buy the Saturday Guardian. Occasionally, I will also get The Observer on a Sunday but I don’t often have the time to … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Documentary, John Berger, Kenneth Clark, Science & Art, television, Ways of Seeing
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Pride and Prejudice and journal citation distributions: final, peer reviewed version
Today sees the publication on bioRxiv of a revised version of our preprint outlining “A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions.” Our proposal, explained in more detail in this earlier post, encourages publishers to help mitigate the distorting … Continue reading
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ICYMI No.7: a day in the life of a naked scientist
In case you missed it last week, I had a segment in the Naked Scientist’s 15th anniversary radio show. Or rather, three segments, based on a day-in-the-life-of-a-scientist piece that I wrote a few months back on the Guardian, that were … Continue reading
Posted in communication, History of Science, ICYMI
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ICYMI No. 6: What is the meaning of Brexit?
Today EMBO Reports has published my commentary on the implications for scientific research of Britain’s recent decision to leave the EU. Although it should be freely available, the piece is temporarily stuck behind a paywall. So, for those without a subscription, here is the … Continue reading
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Pride and Prejudice and journal citation distributions
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a researcher in possession of interesting experimental results, must be in want of a journal with a high impact factor. It is also true – and widely understood – that journal impact factors … Continue reading
Posted in Academic publishing, Citation distributions, impact factor, Open Access, scientific publishing
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For your consideration: a preprint on open access and public engagement
I have just posted a preprint of a book chapter on the interactions of open access and public engagement with science. It’s called “Open Access: the beast that no-one could – or should – control?” and is my contribution to an upcoming … Continue reading
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Letters from Europe
This weekend’s Guardian has a quite wonderful feature comprised of letters to Britain from European writers about the decision to be made in the upcoming referendum. It offers a fresh and little-heard perspective on a debate that has become worn … Continue reading
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How to look at Art?
I was sneered at on Twitter yesterday for sneering at people taking pictures of the Impressionist paintings on display at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris. Fair enough perhaps. I had adopted an exaggerated version of the pontifical tone that comes … Continue reading
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ICYMI No. 5: Asking universities to be open about research assessment
I first wrote about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) when it was launched in May 2013. DORA is a simple statement asking the different players in the business of academic research to free themselves from the damaging … Continue reading
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