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Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adapalmer</span></a></span> </p><p>Holds no punches: "Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation."</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
El Duvelle<p>Looking into <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ScienceAdvances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceAdvances</span></a> as a journal to publish in..<br>Why is there a reference limit, and why is it so low (80 references)? In this day and age? For an online-only journal?</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">science.org/journal/sciadv</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>PS: remember that you can rate the submission &amp; revision process of journals on <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/SciRev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciRev</span></a> <a href="https://scirev.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scirev.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ScientificJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificJournals</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Conversation: AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct. “…while AI is allowing scientists to make technological breakthroughs that are otherwise decades away or out of reach entirely, there’s also a darker side to the use of AI in science: scientific misconduct is on the rise.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/the-conversation-ai-can-be-a-powerful-tool-for-scientists-but-it-can-also-fuel-research-misconduct/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/the-conversation-ai-can-be-a-powerful-tool-for-scientists-but-it-can-also-fuel-research-misconduct/</a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@alexh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alexh</span></a></span> A good initiative. The difference between a blog post and a scientific article is circumstantial. Fact-checking a blog post – or peer reviewing it – should be done anyway always if the post matters at all.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
OpenAIRE<p>Join an exciting event: Couperin Study Days!</p><p>March 19-21, 2025<br>Arts et Métiers, Paris</p><p>Three days of in-depth discussions on AI, tracking, copyright, usage rights, indicators, and digital resource management in scientific publishing. Don’t miss this key event!</p><p>Find all the details here <a href="https://shorturl.at/k1K5G" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shorturl.at/k1K5G</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> or visit the site <a href="https://printempscoup.sciencesconf.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">printempscoup.sciencesconf.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://recurse.social/@lindsey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lindsey</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sigsoft.org/@JonathanAldrich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JonathanAldrich</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> </p><p>I know of a few venues for small papers, some of them across disciplines:</p><p>* microPublication Biology <a href="https://www.micropublication.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">micropublication.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* figshare – for DOIs to figures, data sets, small manuscripts <a href="https://figshare.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">figshare.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* Journal of Open Source Software – often a page or two tops <a href="https://joss.theoj.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">joss.theoj.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* ... and a long list of journals that welcome short communications, like:<br> - PeerJ <a href="https://peerj.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">peerj.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br> - Bioinformatics – Application Note (used to be 2 pages) <a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/pages/instructions_for_authors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/bioinformatic</span><span class="invisible">s/pages/instructions_for_authors</span></a><br> - Journal of Experimental Biology – Short Communication <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/article-types#short-comms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.biologists.com/jeb/pa</span><span class="invisible">ges/article-types#short-comms</span></a></p><p>And of course preprint archives which don't have lower limits on papers and also provide a DOI.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@jonmsterling" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jonmsterling</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://recurse.social/@lindsey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lindsey</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sigsoft.org/@JonathanAldrich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JonathanAldrich</span></a></span> </p><p>A very senior faculty member once told me that "back in the day" (when they were young) an interesting research finding would first get published as a brief note in Nature, and then a year later the lengthy, detailed manuscript with all the data and methods would appear in the Journal of Neurophysiology. And that one wasn't considered a serious scientist if the latter wasn't published, for the former was but the news splash with barely enough substance to understand what the claim was.</p><p>Tragic that this separation of concerns has been lost, with everyone now giving more weight to the flashy bit ("significance of findings"), to the point of not bothering to publish the lengthy, detailed, reproducible study ("strength of evidence").</p><p>These two axes are what eLife's assessment aims at capturing in a pithy paragraph.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
David Lohner<p>Me, July 2023 (see picture for full quote) or click here: <br><a href="https://davidlohner.de/a-fedi-vision/#:~:text=Research%20data%20and,the%20scientific%20community" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidlohner.de/a-fedi-vision/#</span><span class="invisible">:~:text=Research%20data%20and,the%20scientific%20community</span></a>.</p><p>The Internet, March 2025: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fietkau.social/@encyclia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>encyclia</span></a></span><br><a href="https://fietkau.social/@encyclia/114105968363302153" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fietkau.social/@encyclia/11410</span><span class="invisible">5968363302153</span></a></p><p>I like how this whole Academic <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> is taking shape. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@ankrjoe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ankrjoe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@Lambo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Lambo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brembs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brembs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bewegung.social/@neuSoM" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neuSoM</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@melaniebartos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>melaniebartos</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/UnisImFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnisImFediverse</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/UnisInsFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnisInsFediverse</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/Orcid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orcid</span></a> <a href="https://higher-edu.social/tags/scientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://biologists.social/@steveroyle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>steveroyle</span></a></span> "faster, smarter" – I hope they tell the authors which reviews were written by LLMs or aided by LLMs, so that we can ignore such reviews in our rebuttal letters.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Mario Angst<p>The scientific publishing system is fucked up.<br>I believe one of the things you can do as a researcher is only to contribute to journals that don't suck.<br>But what are journals that don't suck™? <br>I've written down my criteria here: <a href="https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/criteria-journals/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/c</span><span class="invisible">riteria-journals/</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bigpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigpublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a></p>
edp sciences<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journals</span></a> | Security and Safety<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewArticle</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a></p><p>“Efficient verifiable searchable encryption with search and access pattern privacy”<br>✍️ Axin Wu et al. From <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateKeyLaboratoryofCryptology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StateKeyLaboratoryofCryptology</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChineseAcademyofSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseAcademyofSciences</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Beijing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beijing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>. <br>Read More➡️ <a href="https://bit.ly/4bijUj1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/4bijUj1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SDGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SDGs</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ScienceScholar</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@academia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdlife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phdlife</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdstudents" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phdstudents</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://science.channel.org/@ScienceAdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ScienceAdm</span></a></span></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@olibrendel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>olibrendel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brembs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brembs</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@neuralreckoning" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>neuralreckoning</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@thetransmitter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thetransmitter</span></a></span> </p><p>In addition to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span> , to add here:</p><p>* the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@scholar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scholar</span></a></span> <a href="https://scholar.archive.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">scholar.archive.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>* <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WorldCat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldCat</span></a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">search.worldcat.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> "provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization".</p><p>* EuropePMC <a href="https://europepmc.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">europepmc.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> , based in Europe and run by EMBL-EBI (EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute).</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@SWC_Neuro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SWC_Neuro</span></a></span> Candid. And clear why scientific publishing needs to change asap.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
AnthonySpeaking of widespread low-quality scientific publication and the need to take care with words: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/</a><br><blockquote>The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several journals when a Russian chemist and scientific sleuth noticed the odd wording in a now-retracted paper in Springer Nature’s Environmental Science and Pollution Research.<br><br>Today, a Google Scholar search turns up nearly two dozen articles that refer to “vegetative electron microscopy” or “vegetative electron microscope,” including a paper from 2024 whose senior author is an editor at Elsevier, Retraction Watch has learned. The publisher told us it was “content” with the wording.<br></blockquote>Note the presence of Nature publishing group, notorious lately for their low-quality AI slop or AI-boosterism, and Elsevier, who is generally terrible.<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=informationoilspill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InformationOilSpill</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicPublishing</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScientificPublishing</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=papermill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaperMill</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=peerreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeerReview</a><br>
@Co_Biologists<p>We are inviting applications for the role of Executive Editor for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://biologists.social/@Dev_journal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Dev_journal</span></a></span> a prestigious not-for-profit journal serving the international developmental and stem cell biology community. This is an exciting opportunity (resulting from an internal promotion) for a talented scientific editor. If you're an experienced editor with a love of developmental biology and its community, this could be the job for you: <a href="https://biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/DEV_ExecEd.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">biologists.com/wp-content/uplo</span><span class="invisible">ads/DEV_ExecEd.pdf</span></a><br>Application deadline: 10 March 2025<br><a href="https://biologists.social/tags/scientificpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificpublishing</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p>Filter before sampling, or, what it can mean when a paper "does the rounds" until finding a journal willing to publish it. By <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mameister4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mameister4</span></a></span> (2018)</p><p><a href="https://markusmeister.com/2018/03/20/death-of-the-sampling-theorem/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSampling%E2%80%9D%20here%20refers%20to%20the,frequency%20components%20from%20the%20signal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">markusmeister.com/2018/03/20/d</span><span class="invisible">eath-of-the-sampling-theorem/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSampling%E2%80%9D%20here%20refers%20to%20the,frequency%20components%20from%20the%20signal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brembs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brembs</span></a></span> When I say this, a question I get often is, how can you tell a paper is good, generically speaking?</p><p>A good paper comes in many forms. Some well-known forms are, based on attention:</p><p>1. A report on findings or tools that other labs are already relying on even before it's even published.</p><p>2. A report that has been ignored for some time, and suddenly starts being referred to, surfacing as late citations. A "sleeper" paper, one that was ahead of its time.</p><p>No. 1 are favourites of journals fishing for citations to boost their impact factor, since they are guaranteed to get many in the first years. But No. 2 signals exceptional, visionary work.</p><p>Some other, overlapping forms of papers, based on how foundational the findings are:</p><p>3. A report whose findings often change the way other labs will from then on approach a particular field or a paradigm within that field.</p><p>4. A report that is referred to from an undergraduate textbook.</p><p>Most of these, except No. 1, share the same "problem": takes years for the field to appreciate them. The impact factor only considers 2 years and it's journal-wise, not paper-wise: there's a lot of noise. But paper-wise, article-level citations take time anyway to build up, and are very field-dependent, so isn't reliable either.</p><p>Truly there are no shortcuts to the evaluation of scientific research. A sensible strategy is hedging one's bets, because the chase for short-term clout can drastically cut out those sweet long-term rewards, and both matter. What also matters a lot is being a scientist yourself, in addition to an administrator, so as to be able to even approach the evaluation problem.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brembs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brembs</span></a></span> The deeper issue is that of evaluation in academia. At the moment, and for quite some years, many have taken "more" as better, in both number of papers and of citations, plus the additional axis of perceived importance, i.e., the glamour journal aura and their impact factor use as rubber stamping credentials.</p><p>This castle of cards falls down quickly when considering that e.g., a large double-digit percent of papers in glamour journals are never cited at all – motivating the article-level metrics –, and that a significant percent ends up retracted – invalidating any claims that more citations means better.</p><p>To evaluate scientists from their published papers, evaluators have to read the papers, discuss them among themselves, contextualize them to the needs and future of their institution, and make up their mind. There are no shortcuts.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>
Daniel S. Katz<p>A new paper about <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@joss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>joss</span></a></span> </p><p>"The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): Bringing Open-Source Software Practices to the Scholarly Publishing Community for Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishers"</p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18285" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18285</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareCitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareCitation</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Software</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RSEng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RSEng</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ResearchSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineering</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p>By the way the tools available nowadays for discovering scientific literature are remarkable. Two examples:</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SemanticScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemanticScholar</span></a> lists actually related and interesting papers:<br><a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cognitive-hyperplasticity-drives-insomnia-Huang-Piao/9b5da8eeed335a34a6f8e5729033b22f07c7cf41#related-papers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">semanticscholar.org/paper/Cogn</span><span class="invisible">itive-hyperplasticity-drives-insomnia-Huang-Piao/9b5da8eeed335a34a6f8e5729033b22f07c7cf41#related-papers</span></a></p><p>And so does <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Sciety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sciety</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@sciety" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sciety</span></a></span> but offering a different set of related papers:<br><a href="https://sciety.org/articles/activity/10.1101/2024.07.16.603670" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sciety.org/articles/activity/1</span><span class="invisible">0.1101/2024.07.16.603670</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a></p>