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peer review

Ars Technica

Poor journalism is making it harder for preprints

There have been quite a few statements by various scientists on Twitter
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bioRxiv

Distracting from the peer-review problem

From an article entitled ‘The risks of swiftly spreading coronavirus research‘ published
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Acharya Balkrishna

A trumpet for Ramdev

The Print published an article entitled ‘Ramdev’s Patanjali does a ‘first’
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Bioinformatics

The scientist as inadvertent loser

Twice this week, I’d had occasion to write about how science
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arXiv

To see faces where there are none

This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what
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for-profit publishing

The cycle

Is it just me or does everyone see a self-fulfilling prophecy here?
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embargoes

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae
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arbitrariness

A conference's peer-review was found to be sort of random, but whose fault is it?

It’s not a good time for peer-review. Sure, if you’ve
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China

R&D in China and India

“A great deal of the debate over globalization of knowledge economies has
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Analysis

Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science

On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: Excellent comment thread
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