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The gravitational pull of global rankings consumes university energy and attention. But there had to be a better way to measure their value.
Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
An urgent discussion is needed around the cost of research publications.
These programmes allow institutions to claim they're doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.
Digital publishing hasn't resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars' labor.
Recent hoax papers in humanities don't show what they claim, but need to be taken seriously.
Scientific articles are the way in which scientists communicate their results to their peers.
Politicians on the right surely wipe with their left hand; and vice versa?
Scientists are rewarded with funding and publications when they come up with innovative findings. But in the midst of a 'reproducibility crisis,' being new isn't the only thing to value about research.
If there's a general sense that academic publication is about knowledge dissemination rather than meeting performance targets, academics and universities become less vulnerable to predatory journals.
In our institutions of higher education and our research labs, scholars first produce, then buy back, their own content. With the costs rising and access restricted, something's got to give.
The low share of women revealed in this data is problematic for two reasons: a lack of diversity, and what it shows about women's participation in the social network of informal collaboration.
Scientific truth is based on a body of research which has been tried and tested by many researchers over time. Peer review filters the good science from the bad.
Women can often draw attention to dimensions of thinking that their male perspective may miss. But this will only work if they are in positions that allow them to lead and drive the research agenda.
More must be done to develop mechanisms based on intrinsic motivations of committed, quality academics. It's important to limit the harms currently being caused by rent seeking.
There are major systemic problems associated with peer review that are negatively affecting scientific credibility.
The scientific impact of a research paper increases with every additional commenter who provides feedback – particularly if the comment came from a well-connected academic.
Medical entries on Wikipedia are widely consulted across the world. Doctors and medical researchers need to make efforts to ensure the content on the online collaborative encyclopedia is accurate.
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Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DST-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Post-Doctoral Researcher in Economics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University
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Professor of Management, University of Johannesburg
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MacKenzie Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Executive Editor, Neurology Journal
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Editor-in-Chief of Neurology; Professor of Neurology and Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Rochester
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Distinguished Writer In Residence, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
