We have recently published a paper introducing the Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI, @dpjedi.org) in IASSIST Quarterly (@iassistdata.bsky.social) ✨

doi.org/10.29173/iq1...

It's tomorrow! Make sure you're registered and join us for this great discussion! #SciPub #JournalEditors #OpenAccess

An image announcing the webinar, titled "Journal Editors' Relationship with Publishers", a virtual event on January 30 at 12pm ET. On the top left there are logos for the co-hosts, Center for Open Science and JEDI, the Journal Editors Discussion Interface. The right side of the image includes headshots of the panelists Anna Stilz, Johan Rooryck, Jon Gurstelle, Moin Syed, and the moderator, Sebastian Karcher.

Want to know how editors balance independence with publisher demands? Join us on Jan 30 to discuss challenges and strategies for navigating the complex dynamics between journal editors and publishers — or ditching your publisher altogether!
Register: is.gd/3x1XzE

#SciPub #JournalEditors #OpenAccess

An image announcing the webinar, titled "Journal Editors' Relationship with Publishers", a virtual event on January 30 at 12pm ET. On the top left there are logos for the co-hosts, Center for Open Science and JEDI, the Journal Editors Discussion Interface. The right side of the image includes headshots of the panelists Anna Stilz, Johan Rooryck, Jon Gurstelle, Moin Syed, and the moderator, Sebastian Karcher.

Want to know how editors balance independence with publisher demands? Join us on Jan 30 to discuss challenges and strategies for navigating the complex dynamics between journal editors and publishers — or ditching your publisher altogether!
Register: is.gd/3x1XzE

#SciPub #JournalEditors #OpenAccess

Submit your metascience preprint and we will get it reviewed, and you can then take those reviews to journals, or just use them to improve your work prior to submitting to a journal.

Disappointing decision by Clarivate to use its status to attempt to squash innovation in science publishing.

I was asked to comment on behalf of ASAPbio for a journalist's write-up of the situation, but my quote got cut. I'll share it here instead (below).

We're getting ready to launch MetaROR and make peer review faster, more transparent, and more efficient 💪

Join us for the official launch of MetaROR, a new open platform for reviewing and sharing metaresearch operating with an innovative publish-review-curate model.

Launch Events ⬇️

A group of @asapbio.bsky.social Fellows & I have just posted a white paper with guidelines on adopting preprint friendly policies for various institutional stakeholders (individual PIs to hiring and promotion)

We'd love feedback and input: zenodo.org/records/1398...

#preprints #Scipub #AcademicSky

Hey #AcademicSky #EpiSky & friends:
What would you say is the MOST IMPORTANT function of a scientific, academic journal? (in 1-2 words)
Here's how our Peerspectives peer review training course participants responded during today's kick-off lecture #peerreview #scientificpublishing #publishorperish

New blog post I cobbled together for the Bristol Reproducibility Network

Ethical Academic Publishing: How to Make Academic Publishing Fairer, More Open and Less Wasteful

openresearchbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/09/23/e...

Shout out to #UniversityOfSussex for a great overview of #openpeerreview on their site: www.surrey.ac.uk/library/open... #openaccess #openscience #peerreview #academia

We're excited to announce a major update to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines—TOP 2025! These guidelines streamline research practices and provide greater clarity around openness in research.

The preprint is now available. Your feedback is welcome! www.cos.io/blog/new-pre...

S4E2 – Preprint Review with Jonny Coates from ASAPBio In this episode, we welcome Queen Saikia as a host of the podcast! She and Will Ngiam are joined by Jonny Coates, Associate Director of ASAPBio, a non-profit organisation seeking to Accelerate Science

Know when peer review at scientific journals began? Check out the latest @reproducibilitea.bsky.social podcast episode, where first-time host @qsaikia.bsky.social and I are joined by @jacoates.bsky.social from @asapbio.bsky.social to discuss how preprints and preprint review can accelerate science!

The 450 Movement I do peer review and I want you to pay me four hundred and fifty dollars. I’ll even say please.

The ancient Q of paying for #PeerReview resurfaced on 💙☁️, most recently with the antitrust lawsuit against publishers, & so I thought is a good moment to re-vamp my (X)🧵 on the 450 Movement. Before you start: read the post from James Heathers #AcademicSky 1/
jamesheathers.medium.com/the-450-move...

Coming up today and tomorrow: two sessions on reproducibility at #FSRDC2024
#dataeditortips
hosted by University of Utah in Salt Lake City Sept 12 and 13, 2024! Join us, first session is this afternoon! rdc.nexus.utah.edu/2024-fsrdc-c...

JEDI is an online community for journal editors across the social sciences focused on increasing open science policies, practices, and procedures at journals.

Here's our new preprint introducing @dpjedi.org and summarising some data from the first two years!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

An #EditorialQuestion: how do you deal w/ a senior author who insist on insulting editorial staff in every email to the journal for no reason (and in this case, I literally mean no reason) while keeping all their student co-authors in cc #OverlyDisgruntledEditor #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky 1/

Some cool new tools in here for making retractions more transparent! #ScientificPublishing

A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Many interesting points about our current #AcademicPublishing system in this thread!

Open Science at Clinical Psychological Science: Reflections on Progress, Lessons Learned, and Suggestions for Continued Improvement - Andrea L. Howard, Tess M.S. Neal, Olivia J. Kirtley, Heather L. Ur... Open science is challenging and frequently time-consuming work, but the payoff is greater assurance that published research is transparent, conducted rigorously...

Your morning read: New editorial with @jnfrltackett.bsky.social , @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social , @heatherurry.bsky.social , and Tess Neal on our experiences managing open science at Clinical Psychological Science.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Didn't know this paper...

>300 people refereed the same econ paper, with author listed as

1. an early career scholar
2. anonymous
3. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1)

Recommendations:
65% reject for early career scholar,
23% reject for Nobel laureate
😑

www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

What are some journals in your field that allow for the publication of data papers or similar data documentation? 🧪

After asking the government (or private foundations) to pay for the costs of doing research, we conduct the research and write papers about it that our peers review for free, then we donate those papers to for-profit companies that sell them back to us at high prices. This is considered normal.

Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read. Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spe...

Kudos to #Japan for adopting a national #OpenAccess policy, for requiring OA through #repositories rather than #journals — #GreenOA rather than #GoldOA — and for funding to upgrade and standardize the country's institutional repositories.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“A bizarre failure in the review process at PNAS”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/16/a...

introducing theory and social inquiry The below is a letter from the editorial board of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry. Here is the statement in its original PDF form. While I had no hand in this, I wholly endorse the endeavor. ...

Springer Nature decides to "change the direction" of sociology journal Theory and Society and asks the editorial board to resign...which they do and set up their own new open access journal: Theory and Social Inquiry.

#Sociology

Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results New data repositories and alternative journals and workshops offer routes for sharing negative results — which could help to solve the reproducibility crisis and give machine learning a boost. New dat...

"The editor-in-chief of the Journal of Trial & Error, Sarahanne Field wants to publish the messy, null and negative results sitting in researchers’ file drawers."

#MetaSci #Methodology 🧪

Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts An ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say. An ‘at a glance’ approach to publicatio...

Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts: An ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Announcing *Lifecycle Journals* a new model for scholarly publishing that meets the existing needs of the reward system, integrates many innovations in scholarly communication, and provides a values-aligned, community-led solution.

Read more and sign-up for updates:

www.cos.io/lifecyclejou...