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Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Autore Matt Wedel

[Note: Mike asked me to scrape a couple of comments on his last post – this one and this one – and turn them into a post of their own. I’ve edited them lightly to hopefully improve the flow, but I’ve tried not to tinker with the guts.] This is the fourth in a series of posts on how researchers might better be evaluated and compared. In the first post, Mike introduced his new paper and described the scope and importance of the problem.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

You’ll remember that in the last installment (before Matt got distracted and wrote about archosaur urine), I proposed a general schema for aggregating scores in several metrics, terming the result an LWM or Less Wrong Metric.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

I said last time that my new paper on Better ways to evaluate research and researchers proposes a family of Less Wrong Metrics, or LWMs for short, which I think would at least be an improvement on the present ubiquitous use of impact factors and H-indexes. What is an LWM?

Pubblicato in wisspub.net

Nach dem ersten Teil über die unterschiedlichen Positionen der EPF Lausanne und der ETH Zürich bezüglich Elsevier-Verhandlungen, folgt hier der zweite Teil. Zur Rekonstruktion der Ereignisse dienen weitere über das Öffentlichkeitsgesetz befreite 65 Seiten Protokolle und Unterlagen des ETH-Rats.

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Like Stephen Curry, we at SV-POW! are sick of impact factors. That’s not news. Everyone now knows what a total disaster they are: how they are signficantly correlated with retraction rate but not with citation count; how they are higher for journals whose studies are less statistically powerful; how they incentivise bad behaviour including p-hacking and over-hyping.

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Weitere über das Öffentlichkeitsgesetz befreite Dokumente zeigen nun, dass es in der Vergangenheit innerhalb des ETH-Bereichs auch schon Kritik an der passiven und ergebenen Haltung gegenüber den Verlagen gab. Die Kritik kam von der Bibliothek der EPFL und entbrannte sich an den Verhandlungen für die Elsevier Lizenz 2011-2013.

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Was zahlt die Universität Zürich an Elsevier, Springer und Wiley? Auf diese Frage weigerte sich die Hauptbibliothek der Universität Zürich (HBZ) im Juli 2014 eine Antwort zu geben. Gegen die Ablehnung rekurrierte ich im August 2014 bei der zuständigen Rekurskommission der Zürcher Hochschulen.

Pubblicato in GigaBlog

Despite the precipitous drop in the price of DNA sequencing, global credit crunches have tightened the science budgets able to properly take advantage of the potential of genomics. While this plummet in cost has led to an explosion of “mega-sequencing” projects carried out by large international consortia, it has also democratized and empowered what can be done outside traditional academia and research funding environments.