bims-skolko 2022-03-13 papers

Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2022 Mar 07. 15347346221084784

Alice through the Looking-glass: Can We Improve Peer Review?

Nikolaos Papanas, Dimitri P Mikhailidis.

Peer review is an essential component for the evaluation of material submitted to medical and scientific journals. This process usually involves single blind, double blind or open peer review. In the present Editorial, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these peer review options. Our comments are influenced by our experience as Editors-in-Chief. We also outline new developments in the field of peer review.

Keywords: articles; journals; medical writing; review process

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/15347346221084784

Front Res Metr Anal. 2022 ;7 822453

The Essence and Transcendence of Scientific Publishing.

José L Medina-Franco, Edgar López-López.

Keywords: dissemination; ethics; open science; publishing; scientific writing

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.822453

Scientometrics. 2022 Feb 27. 1-17

Factors affecting time to publication in information science.

Zehra Taşkın, Abdülkadir Taşkın, Güleda Doğan, Emanuel Kulczycki.

Publication speed is one of the important aspects of scholarly communication since various research performance evaluation systems are based mostly on published papers. This study aims to reveal the factors affecting the publication speed of journals. In this context, six information science journals: ASLIB Journal of Information Management, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Informetrics, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Online Information Review, and Scientometrics are analysed in terms of time to publication (from submission to decision). Our results show that publication time is significantly shorter when an editorial board member or a productive author of a given journal is one of the authors, in compare with the articles. submitted by other authors. The number of authors has a time-prolonging effect on publication time, as expected. On the other hand, publications with more citations were accepted in a shorter time. The papers with authors from central countries and high-income countries have an advantage of shorter publication time. Thus, this study shows that researchers who publish papers with popular and successful researchers from central countries have the advantage of the speed of publication which may have substantial effects on the future academic work, especially of early career researchers.

Keywords: Information science; Publication delay; Publication time; Scholarly communication; Time to publication

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04296-8

J Exp Biol. 2022 Mar 08. pii: jeb243559. [Epub ahead of print]225(Suppl_1):

Paths towards greater consensus building in experimental biology.

Dominique G Roche, Graham D Raby, Tommy Norin, Rasmus Ern, Hanna Scheuffele, Michael Skeeles, Rachael Morgan, Anna H Andreassen, Jeff C Clements, Sarahdghyn Louissaint, Fredrik Jutfelt, Timothy D Clark, Sandra A Binning.

In a recent editorial, the Editors-in-Chief of Journal of Experimental Biology argued that consensus building, data sharing, and better integration across disciplines are needed to address the urgent scientific challenges posed by climate change. We agree and expand on the importance of cross-disciplinary integration and transparency to improve consensus building and advance climate change research in experimental biology. We investigated reproducible research practices in experimental biology through a review of open data and analysis code associated with empirical studies on three debated paradigms and for unrelated studies published in leading journals in comparative physiology and behavioural ecology over the last 10 years. Nineteen per cent of studies on the three paradigms had open data, and 3.2% had open code. Similarly, 12.1% of studies in the journals we examined had open data, and 3.1% had open code. Previous research indicates that only 50% of shared datasets are complete and re-usable, suggesting that fewer than 10% of studies in experimental biology have usable open data. Encouragingly, our results indicate that reproducible research practices are increasing over time, with data sharing rates in some journals reaching 75% in recent years. Rigorous empirical research in experimental biology is key to understanding the mechanisms by which climate change affects organisms, and ultimately promotes evidence-based conservation policy and practice. We argue that a greater adoption of open science practices, with a particular focus on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable) data and code, represents a much-needed paradigm shift towards improved transparency, cross-disciplinary integration, and consensus building to maximize the contributions of experimental biologists in addressing the impacts of environmental change on living organisms.

Keywords: Behavioural ecology; Comparative physiology; GOLT; OCLTT; Ocean acidification; Open data; Transdisciplinary; Transparency

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243559

Adv Child Dev Behav. 2022 ;pii: S0065-2407(22)00001-5. [Epub ahead of print]62 37-59

Show your work: Tools for open developmental science.

Rick O Gilmore.

Since grade school, students of many subjects have learned to "show their work" in order to receive full credit for assignments. Many of the reasons for students to show their work extend to the conduct of scientific research. And yet multiple barriers make it challenging to share and show the products of scientific work beyond published findings. This chapter discusses some of these barriers and how web-based data repositories help overcome them. The focus is on Databrary.org, a data library specialized for storing and sharing video data with a restricted community of institutionally approved investigators. Databrary was designed by and for developmental researchers, and so its features and policies reflect many of the specific challenges faced by this community, especially those associated with sharing video and related identifiable data. The chapter argues that developmental science poses some of the most interesting, challenging, and important questions in all of science, and that by openly sharing much more of the products and processes of our work, developmental scientists can accelerate discovery while making our scholarship much more robust and reproducible.

Keywords: Data repositories; Data sharing; Materials sharing; Open science; Transparency

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.01.001

Nature. 2022 Mar 09.

A guide to the Nature Index.

Keywords: Databases; Publishing

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00575-9

J Hum Lact. 2022 Mar 11. 8903344221082598

Operationalizing the Journal of Human Lactation's Gendered Language Policy.

Joan E Dodgson, Paige Hall Smith, Ethan T Bamberger.

Keywords: breastfeeding; gendered language; non-binary; publication ethics; publication standards

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08903344221082598

Wilderness Environ Med. 2022 Mar;pii: S1080-6032(22)00002-3. [Epub ahead of print]33(1): 1

The Nature of the Editorial.

Neal W Pollock.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2022.01.002

J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2022 Mar;28(2): 115-116

Our Responsibility for Understanding Retractions.

Geraldine S Pearson.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10783903221077269

JCO Glob Oncol. 2022 Mar;8 e2100299

Global Oncology Authorship and Readership Patterns.

Maria T Bourlon, Brenda Jiménez Franco, Francisco J Castro-Alonso, Christianne Bourlon, Charbel F Matar, Emilie Gunn, Ophira Ginsburg, Gilberto Lopes, Eva Segelov.

PURPOSE: Global Oncology is the movement to improve equitable access to cancer control and care, recognizing challenges because of economic and social factors between high-, middle-, and low-income countries (HIC, MIC, and LIC, respectively). The JCO Global Oncology (JCO GO) is a major platform dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed research relevant to populations with limited resources. To assess the success of its goals of encouraging global interaction and increasing MIC and LIC engagement, we analyzed authorship and readership patterns.
METHODS: Metadata of logged views between January 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, of articles published in 2018 by JCO GO were identified using Google Analytics. The country of origin of each author and those who accessed the journal were categorized according to the 2019 income group World Bank Classification (WBC).
RESULTS: One hundred thirty-two articles were published in JCO GO in 2018. Corresponding authors came from 34 nations: 35% HIC, 47% MIC, and 18% LIC. The top publishing countries were the United States, India, Brazil, Mexico, and Nigeria. Article authors were solely from within one WBC group in 41% (23% HIC, 16% MIC, and 2% LIC). In those with mixed-WBC authorship origins, collaborations were 42% HIC + MIC, 11% HIC + LIC, and 6% HIC + MIC + LIC, but none with MIC + LIC. Regarding viewing, 87,860 views originated from 180 countries (82% of the WBC list): 35% HIC, 51% MIC, and 14% LIC. The most common accessing nations were the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Ethiopia.
CONCLUSION: More than half of JCO GO's authorship comes from mixed WBC groups, with viewership extending to most of the world's nations. Areas to address are low level of LIC corresponding authors, few papers from authors across all WBC groups, no publications from MIC + LIC collaborations, and a low percentage of readership by LIC. These data provide focus to target interventions aimed at reducing the academic segregation of LIC and improving interactions across all WBC countries.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1200/GO.21.00299

Clin Ther. 2022 Mar 05. pii: S0149-2918(22)00056-X. [Epub ahead of print]

Pledging to Address Scientific Bias in Published Literature.

Jill L Maron.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2022.02.005

J R Soc Med. 2022 Mar 09. 1410768221084080

Citation bias: questionable research practice or scientific misconduct?

Bram Duyx, Miriam Urlings, Gerard Swaen, Lex Bouter, Maurice Zeegers.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768221084080

Perspect Med Educ. 2022 Mar 08.

Writing for the reader: Using reader expectation principles to maximize clarity.

Lorelei Lingard.