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From data sharing to citizen science and from peer review to professional development the podcasts will explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the current scientific system, and what Open Science practices can do to improve the way we do science. Now on Season 2!
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Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Episode Summary:
In this week's episode, Open Science advocate and researcher Björn Brembs talks about his analysis of and radical solutions to the flaws he identifies in the scientific publishing system. Brembs discusses manipulated impact factors, pseudo-competitions, the evolution of the reproducibility crisis, and what we could all do instead!
Links:
Article on pseudo-competitions in science (in German)
Quotes:
'People strive not to find the next interesting discovery, but to find the next paper'
'Our institutions need to realise that the journal system harms science'
'The publication services the journal system currently provides, when we do it ourselves would be about 10% of what we are currently paying'