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Tag Archives: Open Access
AI slop clears peer-review
Here’s an image from a paper that was published by Nature Scientific Reports on November 19 and retracted on December 5: This paper made it through peer review at the journal. Let that sink in for a moment. Perhaps the … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, gold OA, megajournal, Nature Scientific Reports, Open Access, retraction
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An odd paper about India’s gold OA fees
A paper about open-access fees in India published recently in the journal Current Science has repeatedly surfaced in my networks over some problems with it. The paper is entitled ‘Publications in gold open access and article processing charge expenditure: evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged Achal Agrawal, APC discount, APC waiver, article processing charge, Current Science, Elsevier, gold OA, Hindawi, MDPI, Moumita Koley, Open Access, Plan S, Springer-Nature
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News coverage in India of open access papers
In a study published in November 2021, Teresa Schultz, of the University of Nevada, Reno, reported that gold, green and hybrid open-access (OA) modes of publishing of scientific papers were correlated with more mentions in the news. Gold OA refers … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged gold OA, green OA, hybrid OA, Open Access, Sci-Hub, science journalism, subscription journals
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Are preprints reliable?
To quote from a paper published yesterday in PLOS Biology: Does the information shared in preprints typically withstand the scrutiny of peer review, or are conclusions likely to change in the version of record? We assessed preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv that had … Continue reading
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Tagged Open Access, peer review, PLOS Biology, preprint papers
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Citations and media coverage
According to a press release accompanying a just-published study in PLOS ONE: Highly cited papers also tend to receive more media attention, although the cause of the association is unclear. One reason I can think of is a confounding factor … Continue reading
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Tagged citations, Open Access, paywall, PLoS ONE, positivity bias, preprints, scientific publishing
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Preference for OA research by income group
Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers with authors based in low income countries, and papers resulting from international collaboration are … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged Amelica, article processing charge, arXiv, bronze OA, coalition S, GDP per capita, gold OA, green OA, hybrid OA, income groups, K VijayRaghavan, Latin America, Open Access, Plan S, PLoS ONE, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank
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On that Poynter debate about stock images and ethical visual journalism
Response to Mark Johnson, Article about free images ‘contradicts everything I hold true about journalism’, Poynter, February 9, 2018. ∞ Let’s get the caveats out of the way: The article to which Johnson is responding did get some of its messaging wrong. … Continue reading
Are the papers behind this year’s Nobel Prizes in the public domain?
Note: One of my editors thought this post would work for The Wire as well, so it’s been republished there. “… for the greatest benefit of mankind” – these words are scrawled across a banner that adorns the Nobel Prize’s … Continue reading
Are the papers behind this year's Nobel Prizes in the public domain?
Note: One of my editors thought this post would work for The Wire as well, so it’s been republished there. “… for the greatest benefit of mankind” – these words are scrawled across a banner that adorns the Nobel Prize’s … Continue reading
No Space Age for us
We are proud of ISRO’s being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases. Continue reading