Bernard Rentier @bernardrentier@qoto.org
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège 
(2005-2014)
Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège (2005-2014) Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence. Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
End of playtime.
Get back to your wallet.
BMJ Open Science (BMJ OS) ceased publication in December 2022.
https://openscience.bmj.com/about/
[Via @rickypo]
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every 5 days…
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8
Is my study useless? Why researchers need methodological review boards
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04504-8
« Even within the scientific community, the reliability of sources and data is a difficult question to answer » https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352552521001006
Purpose :Analyze the relationships between discourse leading indicators and citations from perspectives of integrating altmetrics indicators. 2. Provide references for comprehending the quantitative indicators of scientific communication in the era of #OpenScience, constructing the evaluation indicator system of the discourse leading for academic journals and then improving the discourse leading of academic journals.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/LHT-09-2021-0296/full/html
The Beatles now have their very own academic journal : https://twitter.com/rickypo/status/1609818781022564353?s=46&t=RF8LFigtzPE-x_hkVaLvwg [via @rickypo].
Bernard Rentier
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Strikes me we really need a better terminology for retractions. Because honest error shouldn’t be thrown in the same bin as deliberate falsehood.
Unless we honour the honourable retraction we promote science-for-glory over science-for-knowledge.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/the-top-retractions-of-2022-70852
HT @ElisabethBik on Twitter
Bernard Rentier
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More evidence that articles published in #OpenAccess journal are cited more often than articles published in #paywalled journals. But at the same time, evidence that availability on #SciHub is reducing the OA citation advantage (#OACA) for OA journals.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2357492/v1
Research Software vs. Research Data I: Towards a Research Data definition in the #OpenScience context - https://f1000research.com/articles/11-118
cOAlition S has officially joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)
https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-has-officially-joined-the-coalition-for-advancing-research-assessment-coara/
Quality, integrity and utility of COVID-19 science: opportunities for public health researchers https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckac183/6889489
#OpenScience is encouraging the publication of null or negative results for it is the best way to avoid spending time, energy and money repeating unnecessary experiments. https://junanaguy.medium.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-shared-null-results-c51d0b09bcf5
“Un digital native n’est pas forcément un scientifique des données”
https://www.lecho.be/partner/commission-europeenne/nextgenerationeu/un-digital-native-n-est-pas-forcement-un-scientifique-des-donnees/10426102.html
« U.S. Biomedical federal funding has offered support to approximately two-thirds of the top-cited biomedical scientists at some point during the last quarter century, but only a small minority of top-cited scientists had current federal biomedical funding.» https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799260
Bernard Rentier
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@bernardrentier @rickypo Yes! "My local council doesn’t bother telling me when a road is open and I am able to drive down it. They only bother to erect a sign when it’s a dead end, a cul de sac, or no entry. Surely the world should by now have shifted to expecting OA without it having to be specifically labelled?" I don't think we're there yet but we should be.
"More than our rank".
This is an initiative that every university would do well to join, regardless of its ranking.
Indeed, each institution, for various reasons, many of which are its own, is worth much more than the rank assigned to it by a limited, indigent and ideologically connoted system of indicators.
https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/
Bernard Rentier
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Update. Now add the U of #Washington and the U of #Pennsylvania law schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/12/03/law-schools-protest-us-news-rankings/
That makes 12 major US law schools that have stopped participating in the USNWR rankings: #Yale, #Harvard, #Berkeley, #Columbia, #Georgetown, #Stanford, #Michigan, #Northwestern, #Duke, #UCIrvine, #Penn, and #UWashington.
« Surely after 20+ years, we have reached the tipping point when OA should be considered the default, if not the norm »
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/open-access-is-dead-long-live-open-access/
#OpenAccess [via @rickypo]
The impact factor of scientific journals, although having long been severely criticised as a tool for evaluating research and researchers, is still broadly used as a gold standard. Now it is caught in its own trap in the excitement of COVID.
https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/43089/accepted
- Virology
- Open Access
- Open Science
- Freedom of expression
Virologiste, ancien Recteur ULiège (2005-2014) Virologist, Rector Emeritus ULiège (2005-2014) Défenseur de l’accès libre aux publications scientifiques, de la Science ouverte et de la liberté d’expression des chercheurs dans leur domaine de compétence. Advocate for Open Access, Open Science and freedom of expression for researchers in their field of expertise.
Joined Nov 2022
