Staying Afloat in the Rising Tide of Science by @CarlZimmer
http://www.Cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)30192-1 How can this tide lift all boats & not drown us in Tb?
Posts Tagged ‘epublishing’
Staying Afloat in the Rising Tide of Science: Cell
March 19, 2016Health ROI as a measure of misalignment of biomedical needs and resources : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group
January 10, 2016Health ROI as a measure of misalignment of…needs & resources by @arzhetsky http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n8/full/nbt.3276.html See funding decisions like stock trades
QT:{{"In a recently published letter to Nature Biotechnology, Lixia Yao,
IGSB core faculty Andrey Rzhetsky and colleagues dissect the decisions
made in funding choices. His team compares these choices by funding
agencies to trades in a financial market. In this communication, they
expand on the idea that there exists an imbalance between health needs
and biomedical research investment.
In order to fairly examine the relationship between biomedical need
and biomedical research, they validated a new, insurance based measure
of health burden that enables automatic evaluation of burden and
research investment for many more diseases than have been previously
assessed. "
"}}
Publication delays at PLOS and 3,475 other journals
July 6, 2015#Publication delays at PLOS & 3,475 other[s] by @dhimmel http://blog.dhimmel.com/plos-and-publishing-delays Perhaps journals should provide on-time stats as airlines do
JAMA Network | JAMA | Stealth Research: Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature?
March 23, 2015Is Biomedical Innovation Happening Outside the Peer-Reviewed Literature? http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2110977 Focuses on diagnostics company, #Theranos
QT:{{”
This Viewpoint discusses the need for scientific transparency when biomedical innovation takes place outside of the peer-reviewed literature.
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by J Ioannidis
Is ecology explaining less and less?
September 15, 2014Is #ecology explaining less & less? http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/ecology-explaining-less-and-less Over 100yr & 18k papers: more #pvalues but falling <r2>. What’s P for this trend?
‘Kardashian index’ in science
July 30, 2014A great article discussing the major issue of hyped social media presence:
“Social media makes it very easy for people to build a seemingly impressive persona by essentially ‘shouting louder’ than others. Having an opinion on something does not make one an expert.”
Legislative verbosity: Outrageous bills | The Economist
January 23, 2014A parallel due to word processing: Profs #publish more & congress increases legislative verbosity. Outrageous bills
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21590368-why-congress-writes-such-long-laws-outrageous-bills
Why Congress writes such long laws
Nov 23rd 2013 | WASHINGTON, DC
Missing Links: Access to Papers’ Raw Data Plummets by 17% Each Year – Megan Garber – The Atlantic
December 24, 2013.@jonathanelee Or Link Rot in action in science. Missing Links
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/missing-links-access-to-research-papers-raw-data-drops-17-a-year/282548 #reproducibleresearch
PubMed Help – Searching for specific last and first authors
November 30, 2013From
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3827/#pubmedhelp.Search_Field_Descrip some useful field descriptors, include:
Last author = [Lastau]
First author = [1au]
Grant = [GR]
Here are some examples employing these from the end of 2012:
(1) My overall query {Q} (from papers page, http://papers.gersteinlab.org) =
((Gerstein M[Author] NOT (1957[dp] : 1990[dp])) NOT 10787728[UID] NOT 11744447[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 14730174[UID] NOT 16081066[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 17270657[UID] NOT 21243890[UID] NOT
21406498[UID] NOT 21945273[UID]OR 15499007[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 8877505[UID] OR 8816770[UID] OR 7540695[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7577841[UID] OR 7567917[UID] OR 7643385[UID] OR 8749848[UID] OR 8808580[UID] OR 8120887[UID] OR 8029203[UID] OR 8204609[UID] OR 7922041[UID] OR 7584390[UID] OR 8078776[UID] OR 8428572[UID] OR 8429559[UID] OR 8464069[UID] OR 8234227[UID] OR 8230220[UID] OR 1584800[UID] OR 2067013[UID] OR 20981092[UID] OR 21526222[UID])
==> yields 426 papers (from my total of 449)
(2) Last author papers
(2a) Gerstein M[Lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 242 last author papers
(2b) GM[GR] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 33 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NIGMS
(2c) GM[HG] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 45 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NHGRI
(3) 1st author papers
(3a) Gerstein M[1au] AND {Q}
==> yields 41 first author papers
(3b) Gerstein M[lastau] AND Gerstein M[1au] AND {Q}
==> yields 11 sole author papers
(4) Reviews
Gerstein M[lastau] AND review[PT] NOT PLOS ONE[Journal] AND {Q} ==> yields 19 Reviews
Interesting way to peer review
November 29, 2013Bubble Popper !
By allowing peers to test some of the hypotheses stated in a theoretical paper (or stating that some statement(s) in the paper need additional justification)…
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