Today, finally, our manuscript on journal rank is accepted for publication at Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. One may wonder how a paper that reviews the empirical findings around journal rank ends up in a journal about human neuroscience. After all, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Academic publishers have been parasitizing the public purse for long enough now. Steffen Böhm, director of the Essex Sustainability Institute, said it best: By cutting out the parasitic publishing middle men, the academy could reclaim control of its knowledge, funding […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posted on June 2, 2013
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While our own manuscript on journal rank is almost through the peer-review process, this morning I received several messages announcing the DORA (San Francisco declaration on research Assessment), which I signed immediately. Echoing some of the sentiments we also refer […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posted on May 17, 2013
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