COARA (Coalition for advancing research assessment) ha adottato una modalità di lavoro basata su gruppi di lavoro tematici. Quasi tutti hanno già cominciato a produrre documenti o linee guida e il gruppo Recognizing an rewarding peer review ha appena pubblicato il documento Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals: Recommendations …| Open Science @Unimi
Academic journals as gatekeepers| Research Practices and Tools
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In the context of the conference GFP 2019 on polymer chemistry, I am taking part in a roundtable on Open Access. Chemists are coming quite late to the Open Access debate. The preprint archive Chemrxiv is young, not widely used, and not independent from publishers. The traditional subscription-based publishing system, and the standard bibliometric indicators, dominate communication and evaluation. And when chemists are dragged into the debate by discipline-agnostic initiatives such as Plan S, ...| Research Practices and Tools
This post is motivated by a request from JHEP to review a recent article by Anton de la Fuente. I am grateful to the author for stimulating correspondence.| Research Practices and Tools
I have been using this blog for publishing the reviewer reports that I write for journals, since the journals typically do not publish the reports. However, the new journal SciPost Physics does publish the reports for accepted articles. I have recently reviewed an article by Gorbenko, Rychkov and Zan for SciPost Physics, and written about the experience: it would seem that I need not blog about that article, since my report is already online.| Research Practices and Tools