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Early Career Academics, Early career researchers, open peer review, peer review, Reward and recognition
Highlight or hide – What role should peer review have in researcher development?
As part of Peer Review Week, Rebecca Furlong and Eleanor-Rose Papas draw on their in-depth knowledge of peer review to offer Early Career Researchers (ECRs) advice on how to develop the impact of their research and profile through peer review, both as …
Academic Publishing, double-blind peer review, gender bias, peer review, Research Ethics, single-blind peer review, Status bias
Double-anonymous review is an effective way of combating status bias in scholarly publishing
Discussions around improving peer review often focus on openness as a mechanism to reduce bias. Drawing on a recent study of double and single anonymisation at the British Ecological Society, Charles Fox argues for the benefits of double anonymisation …
Academic Publishing, Featured, Funding Models, Non-profit, publishing ethics, Research Ethics, Retraction watch
Making retraction data freely accessible – Why Crossref’s acquisition of the Retraction Watch database is a big step forward
Since its launch Retraction Watch has done much to highlight the value of research integrity and publishing standards. Discussing the recent acquisition by Crossref of Retraction Watch’s database of retracted articles, Ivan Oransky and Rachael Lammey h…
Can generative AI add anything to academic peer review?
Although generative AI applications promise efficiency and can benefit the peer review process, given their shortcomings and our limited knowledge of their innerworkings, Mohammad Hosseini and Serge P.J.M. Horbach argue they should not be used independ…
agricultural data, agriculture, biodiversity, biodiversity data, biology data, Climate, clinical data, Data, Data reuse, Data science, Data Sharing, Ecology, ecology data, evolution data, Featured data, informatics, medicine, metabolomics, neuroscience, neuroscience data, open data, open data digest, physiology, proteomics data
Open Data Digest special edition: Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture
Compelling data at the intersection of climate and culture. A collaboration with the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Continue reading →
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