Three problems with scientific publications are presented here: retraction rates are rising, research is increasingly unreproducible and journals are making decisions designed to increase their visibility.
As my university was about to merge with a college in the same region, I began to sense that expectations were being lowered. I wrote this to encourage maintaining ambition.
This excerpt from the introduction to my ebook tells how work to improve gender equality and gender balance are part of a larger program to make universities better.
“Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on.” –Robert Plant
Peer evaluation is the most important tool for quality control in research, but it needs to be better. Here are thirteen suggestions to include in a new system of Open Evaluation.
We’re engaged in science for the service of society, and we can only deliver on that mission if we use all available tools to assure the quality of our results.