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Category Archives: peer review
Even scientists have birthdays
What do you get for a scientist who has everything? Except, perhaps, all the grants and papers he wants….
Posted in Birthdays, grants, humor, manuscripts, peer review, Research, reviews, science, scientists
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Opening peer review for inspection and improvement
For me the most memorable event at last week’s ASAPbio-HHMI-Wellcome meeting on Peer Review, which took place at HHMI’s beautifully appointed headquarters on the outskirts of Washington DC, was losing a $100 bet to Mike Eisen. Who would have guessed he’d know … Continue reading
Posted in Academic publishing, asapbio, hhmi, peer review, science, Wellcome Trust
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Why we need to better educate the public about science–and stop bill “S. 1973, The Basic Research Act”
The 20th and 21st centuries have arguably been the “Golden Age” for science in the US and other developed countries. Within a generation we have gone from people routinely dying as a result of simple bacterial infections to the power … Continue reading
Posted in bill S. 1973, biomedical research, CRISP/Cas9, Darwin, education, enzymes, funding, grant review, medical advances, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NIH, NSF, peer review, Rand Paul, Research, science, taxpayer advocate, The Basic research Act, vaccinations
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Six questions about preprints
2017 is shaping up to be the year that preprints in biomedical sciences go mainstream. At the beginning of the year MRC and Wellcome Trust both moved to accept preprints in grant applications and scientific reviews. Another major UK biomedical … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, peer review, Preprints
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Rapid or vapid?
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the open access journal Molecular Metabolism. I had just delivered a short talk to a group of researchers as a reminder about our open access policy and what my team could do … Continue reading
Posted in Journal publishing, Open Access, peer review
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Paying for peer review? No thanks, I’m outta here…
I spent Friday traveling west of Omaha to the University of Nebraska at Kearney, in of course, Kearney, Nebraska–about 3 hours west of Omaha. The University of Nebraska has 4 major campuses: 1) The University of Nebraska Medical Center (where … Continue reading
Posted in compensation, editor, editorial board, editors, journals, nature, peer review, publishing, Research, review, rubriq, science, scientific reports
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Call for Papers?
A few days ago I received an email from “The American International Journal of Contemporary Research“–now there’s an oxymoronic journal title: American International. Make up your minds! Apparently, this journal is not good at ‘making up its mind,’ as the … Continue reading
Posted in American-International, broad-specific, fed up with BS, get serious, humor, journals, oxymoron, papers, peer review, pretend peer review, Research, science, scope
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Sheket!
A little while ago I was with a group of family and friends discussing the Bilderberg Group, a kind of un-conference in which the world’s movers and shakers can get together and discuss matters of great import in an informal … Continue reading
Posted in angry birds peace conference, bilderberg group, former mesenteric republic of euthenasia, Israel, News, news editors, Palestine, peer review, Politicrox, scoop, syria, Writing & Reading
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Are scientists becoming an endangered species? The way we live–now
What spurred me to put pen-to-paper, if that phrase has any remaining meaning, was reading about the recent proposals at the US National Institutes of Health to again revamp the grant review system. The previous revamp, just several years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in endangered species, grant review, grants, peer review, Research, reviews, science, scientists, survival, the way we live now
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In defense of journal hierarchy
Plagued with an unbelievably busy schedule, I have been a mostly passive follower of the excellent dialog that has resulted from several outstanding blogs on the peer review system, many of them “high impact blogs” by my esteemed colleague, Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in high tier, impact factor, journals, papers, peer review, Research, science
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