Category Archives: Publishing

In Defense of (Some) Large Author Lists

Posted on November 14, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

While I was convalescing, a minor kerfuffle erupted over ‘courtesy authors’ on scientific papers, when the British Medical Journal announced its new rules for authorship inclusion: The uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to medical journals state that authorship credit should … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, Funding, Genomics, Publishing | 4 Comments

Public Data, Publishing, Priority, and Public Health

Posted on July 27, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

While publication is enshrined as the pinnacle of scientific communication, in the case of the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak, it was pretty much irrelevant. It also encouraged bad behavior.
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Posted in E. coli, Genomics, Propaganda, Publishing | 4 Comments

Publishing Should Serve Scientists, Not Publishers

Posted on July 14, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Tenure committees and grant panels need some way of differentiating faculty and proposals. If we move to this brave new world of scientific communication, how will assessment work?
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Peer Review Is an Awful System, but It’s Better Than All of the Other Awful Systems: The McKinsey ACA Report Edition

Posted on June 12, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

There are all sorts of problems with federally-funded research and peer review. But the McKinsey scandal should put things in proper perspective.
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Why Should Publishers Organize Science?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

We do need to rethink project and data management, communication networks, and so on. But I’ll be damned if I let a publisher be involved from the outset.
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Posted in Bioinformatics, Publishing | 3 Comments