Publishing and funding

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1. Publishing and Funding @IanMulvany Head of Technology - eLife DGZ, Regensburg, 2014-03-18
2. • a bit about eLife • how to improve your impact factor • the future of “impact” • what to focus on when you publish - and why you might consider eLife
3. elifesciences.org
5. Airplane icon designed by Nolan Paparelli on the @NounProject.
6. flickr: gromgull
7. This is the best time in history to do science
9. and the worst time in history to be a scientist
10. • http://blog.mendeley.com/academic-life/are- there-too-many-phds/
12. For, to be silent about Your Most Serene Highness's ancestors to whose eternal glory the monuments of all histories testify, Your virtue alone, Great Hero, can by Your name, impart immortality to these stars ! http://www.medici.org/exhibitions/galileo- 1610 (the telescope may prove useful, but to explore future possibilities we recommend that more funding be applied)
15. slide via Graham Steel
16. flickr: kwbridge
17. 28,100 1800000 Ware, Mark, and Michael Mabe. 2009. “The Stm Report Journals Publishing” (September).
18. IF = C(y-1) + C(y-2) A(y-1) + A(y-2)
19. photo: flickr - scottandress
20. IF = C(y-1) + C(y-2) A(y-1) + A(y-2)
21. Acta Crystallographica - Section A IF in 2008 = 2.0 IF in 2009 = 49.9 ! The dramatic rise was due to a single article cited over 6,700 times! Without this article, the IF would have remained < 3.0! via Abd Karim Alias akarim@usm.my
22. International Journal of Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations Arnold, Douglas N., and Kristine K. Fowler. 2010. “Nefarious Numbers”. History and Overview; Digital Libraries (October 1): 5. http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0278.
23. the point that a journal’s IF (an arithmetic mean) is almost useless as a predictor of the likely citations to any particular paper in that journal Kravitz, Dwight J., and Chris I. Baker. 2011. “Toward a New Model of Scientific Publishing: Discussion and a Proposal.” Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5 (December): 1–12. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00055. http:// www.frontiersin.org/ Computational_Neuroscience/10.3389/ fncom.2011.00055/abstract. “Deciphering Impact Factors.” 2003. Nature Neuroscience 6 (8) (August): 783–783. doi:10.1038/nn0803-783. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn0803-783.
24. Seglen, P O. 1997. “Why the Impact Factor of Journals Should Not Be Used for Evaluating Research.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) 314 (7079): 498–502.
25. IF = C(y-1) + C(y-2) A(y-1) + A(y-2)
27. Brembs, Björn, Katherine Button, and Marcus Munafò. 2013. “Deep Impact: Unintended Consequences of Journal Rank.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7 (January): 291. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291. http:// www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=3690355&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract.
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29. When it comes time to evaluating faculty, most people do not have or care to take the time to read the articles any more! Garfield, Eugene. 2005. “The Agony and the Ecstasy — the History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor.” Journal of Biological Chemistry 295 (1): 1–22. http:// garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/jifchicago2005.pdf.
30. Lozano, George a, Vincent Lariviere, and Yves Gingras. 2012. “The Weakening Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers’ Citations in the Digital Age.” Arxiv Preprint arXiv12054328 8: 14. doi:10.1002/asi.22731. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328.
31. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath. Matthew 25:29, King James Bible
32. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
33. Bollen, Johan, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, Luis Bettencourt, Ryan Chute, Marko a Rodriguez, and Lyudmila Balakireva. 2009. “Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science.” PloS One 4 (3): e4803. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone. 0004803. http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/19277205.
34. Bollen, Johan, Herbert Van De Sompel, Aric Hagberg, Ryan Chute, Prototyping Team, Los Alamos National, Mathematical Modeling, and Analysis Group. 2009. “A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures.” Methods: 1–19. doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0006022.
35. Adler, Robert, John Ewing, and Peter Taylor. 2009. “Citation Statistics.” Statistical Science 24 (1) (February): 1– 14. doi:10.1214/09-STS285. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1255009002. flickr: jessica wilson {jek in the box}
36. one of the minor mysteries of our time is why so many scientifically sophisticated people give so much credence to a procedure that is so obviously flawed “Deciphering Impact Factors.” 2003. Nature Neuroscience 6 (8) (August): 783–783. doi:10.1038/nn0803-783. http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nn0803-783.
37. ! ▪ If you include journal impact factors in the list of publications in your cv, you are statistically illiterate. ! ▪ If you are judging grant or promotion applications and find yourself scanning the applicant’s publications, checking off the impact factors, you are statistically illiterate. ! ▪ If you publish a journal that trumpets its impact factor in adverts or emails, you are statistically illiterate. (If you trumpet that impact factor to three decimal places, there is little hope for you.) ! ▪ If you see someone else using impact factors and make no attempt at correction, you connive at statistical illiteracy. • Stephen Curry
38. A new hope flickr: mac_filko
39. Lozano, George a, Vincent Lariviere, and Yves Gingras. 2012. “The Weakening Relationship between the Impact Factor and Papers’ Citations in the Digital Age.” Arxiv Preprint arXiv12054328 8: 14. doi:10.1002/asi.22731. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328.
40. • Sarigöl, Emre, and René Pfitzner. “Predicting Scientific Success Based on Coauthorship Networks”: 1–21.
41. http://am.ascb.org/dora/
43. Journal level Alternative Article level Impact factor Title Editorial board H 5 index Eigenfactor ! Citations Data sets Data reuse Data downloads Data citation Software Reviewing Tools built Grant revenue PhDs supervised Course materials Patents Government service ! Downloads Mendeley readers Tweets Facebook likes Citeulike bookmarks Betweenness centrality F1000 score Wikipedia citations News mentions Lay summaries Length spent reading Annotation density Readership demographic
44. flickr: 24263322@N05
45. $200 billion (an astonishing 85% of the world’s spending on medical research) was squandered on studies that were flawed in their design, redundant, never published or poorly reported The Lancet - via the economist 2014-03-15
46. sharelatex writelatex publons authorea zenodo figshare fidus wrtier publons pubpeer kudos iPython papership shazino github paperscape scholastica peej elife pubchase sciencescape experiment.com sholar.ly sparrho altmetric.com plum-analytics impactstory scienceexchange
47. http://myscicareer.com
48. the best time in history to be an ex-scientist
49. • Publish as fast as possible • Publish in a venue that you respect • Publish in a venue that is not going to make arbitrary decisions about your paper • Make your work open access Efficiency
50. v1 50 Media policy 2 20 Cover letter and single PDF Swift triage process by Senior Editors Full submission BRE member plus external reviewer(s) Decision after peer review Revision assessed by BRE member Consultation Single decision letter
51. v1 Single set of instructions – focused revision Limit rounds of revision Reduced times from submission 
 to acceptance ! No “3rd” reviewer problem
52. 133 1.3 3
53. Yeah, ok but what is eLife’s Impact Factor?
54. flickr: twicepix
55. Picture of the room
56. Submit Now! submit.elifesciences.org
57. Appendix!
58. bit.ly/IFSucks
59. he published little of import between insulin in 1952 and his first paper on RNA sequencing in 1967 with another long gap until DNA sequencing in 1977 - Sydney Brenner
60. says he has … published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work … was published in 1964. • http://www.theguardian.com/science/ 2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson- academic-system