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Is the scientific enterprise too big?

Today, I came across two very different but equally interesting and telling things to read. One was a letter from our funding agency (DFG) explaining why our main grant wasn't renewed and one was this ...[more]
metrics   science evaluation   data   journal rank   
Posted on Friday 31 August 2012 - 16:56:45

The cost of knowledge - in 2003?

My former supervisor (in 1993!) Göran Englund may not be a Field's Medalist (he's an ecologist!), but already in 2003, he saw corporate publishers behaving in the same way which gave rise to the ...[more]
cost of knowledge   boycott   publishing   impact factor   journal rank   englund   
Posted on Thursday 29 March 2012 - 17:16:47

Are we incentivizing hype in science? A case study

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Now also cross-posted at homolog.us (and slightly edited here to remove any potentially misleading, unintentional implications).

There is a lively discussion going on right now in various forums on the ...[more]
drosophila   octopamine   flight   choice   publishing   journal rank   impact factor   
Posted on Friday 25 January 2013 - 13:20:40

Journal Impact Factors are silly and everybody knows it

I wasn't planning to write anything on Stephen Curry's latest piece on the negotiated, irreproducible and mathematically unsound Impact Factor sold by Thomson Reuters to gullible university administrators. I agree with m...[more]
impact factor   metrics   journals   science publishing   publishing   journal rank   
Posted on Tuesday 14 August 2012 - 11:36:21

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