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Articles for tag: Publishing
New Open Index of Scholarly Articles Helps Researchers Connect
We have all needed scholarly articles to cite in our academic careers. Now, there is a place where researchers can get millions of them, all on one site. Named after the Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex is an index of over 200 million scientific documents including publication sources, author information and research topics that can be ...
‘Behind Closed Drawers’: The File Drawer Effect
In psychology, “the file drawer effect,” coined in 1979 by Robert Rosenthal, refers to the fact that in science, many results remain unpublished, especially negative ones. Publication bias is more widespread than scientists might like to think.
Citation Farms and Circles of Self-citation
Self-citation is a sensitive topic in some circles. Especially circles that are known disdainfully as “citation farms,” which consist of authors who routinely and massively self-cite or cite each other in order to boost the impact of their publications. While these “citation farms,” also known as “citation cartels,” are thought to be the hallmark of ...
Reproducibility, Rigor and Rigmarole
Imagine a hypothetical “Dear Abby” letter to the science community: “I am the principal investigator and corresponding author on a paper detailing research findings in our lab. A leading investigator at another university contacted me and states that she cannot duplicate our results. I re-ran the samples analyzed by my post-doc and I couldn’t either. ...
