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Are Open Data Actually Reusable?

Are Open Data Actually Reusable?

Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.

Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability

Practical Tools and Strategies for Researchers to Increase Replicability

This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.

 

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Harassment Charges: Injustice Done?

Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

Top Geneticist Loses 3.5-Million GBP Grant in First Test of Landmark Bullying Policy

The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chief of Europe's 1-Billion EUR Brain Project Steps Down

Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.

BlockchainForScience.com

BlockchainForScience.com

Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.

Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations in 252 Subject Categories

Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A Systematic Comparison of Citations in 252 Subject Categories

Preprint suggests that in all areas Google Scholar citation data is essentially a superset of Web of Science and Scopus, with substantial extra coverage.

Despite Becoming Increasing Institutionalised, There Remains a Lack of Discourse About Research Metrics Among Much of Academia

Despite Becoming Increasing Institutionalised, There Remains a Lack of Discourse About Research Metrics Among Much of Academia

The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.

Science Under Trump: Voices of Scientists Across 16 Federal Agencies

Science Under Trump: Voices of Scientists Across 16 Federal Agencies

What does the Trump administration's assault on federal science look like to the people who experience it every day in their workplaces?

Survey of U.S. Government Scientists Finds Range of Attitudes Toward Trump Policies

Survey of U.S. Government Scientists Finds Range of Attitudes Toward Trump Policies

A survey suggests U.S. government scientists views are hard to pigeonhole and fall short of documenting widespread unhappiness with the Trump administration.

Science Under Trump: Voices of Scientists across 16 Federal Agencies

Science Under Trump: Voices of Scientists across 16 Federal Agencies

We asked federal scientists what it's like to work in the Trump administration. Their answers point to widespread, serious problems that should concern all of us.

This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize

This Woman Discovered Scintillating Deep-Space Objects, and Her Male Colleague Got the Nobel Prize

Jocelyn Bell Burnell's skills on the radio telescope were on point. Following the discovery of pulsars, Bell Burnell faced casual sexism from the media and public as well.

How We Judge Research Outputs When Making Funding Decisions

How We Judge Research Outputs When Making Funding Decisions

Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, and Jim Smith, Director of Science, discuss the steps Wellcome is taking to fulfil the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Boycott the Journal Rankings

Boycott the Journal Rankings

Journal rankings are a rigged game. The blacklist of history of economic thought journals isn’t a fluke nor a conspiracy - it exposes how citation rankings really work.