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Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…

Steven Hill (@stevenhill), Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, responds to a recent publication by Steven Hrotic and me here: Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…. Here is the original publication, which is available open … Continue reading

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Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?

An interesting summary of presentations on altmetrics, including a set of interesting questions: BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?.

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Assessing the Value of Team Science: A Study Comparing Center-and Investigator Initiated Grants – Team Science Toolkit

The [initial] lag in productivity among the transdisciplinary center grants was offset by their overall higher publication rates and average number of coauthors per publication, relative to investigator-initiated grants, over the 10-year comparison period. The fındings suggest that transdisciplinary center … Continue reading

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Research Bought, Then Paid For – NYTimes.com

Catchy title for an argument against the Research Works Act. Research Bought, Then Paid For – NYTimes.com.

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Does open access really threaten peer review?

Here, I mean peer review in the sense of pre-publication review by experts in a relevant field of manuscripts submitted for publication in scholarly journals. Peer review, in this sense, has been the backbone of scholarly publishing at least since … Continue reading

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The Association of American Publishers endorses Research Works Act

The Association of American Publishers endorses the Research Works Act. I want to explore their argument a bit here. First, their characterization of H.R. 3699: The legislation [the Research Works Act] is aimed at preventing regulatory interference with private-sector research … Continue reading

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Research Works Act is an anti-entrepreneurial bill

A bill has been introduced by Representative Darrell Issa — H.R. 3699 — in order “To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector.” The Research Works Act would outlaw open access policies, such … Continue reading

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Industrial Medical Technoscience

Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it’s not available to you | Video on TED.com. Very interesting lecture that opens up some intriguing questions concerning how the technoscience progress machine, or Westernizing Transnational economics, … Continue reading

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Drinking from a Fire Hose

Dispatch from the fourth meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) – Washington, D.C. After releasing its report on synthetic biology, today the PCSBI took on a new topic: emerging diagnostic and predictive tools. In … Continue reading

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