The function of a journal article (aka scientific paper) is to communicate results. Journal articles also serve as a measure of scientific productivity to evaluate individual researchers for the purpose of recruitment, promotion and tenure decisions. Although the recent advancements in the methods we use to practice scientific inquiry have accelerated and transformed our understanding of problems, the grand scheme of communicating scientific results has not evolved for nearly four centuries. A peer-reviewed scientific article may get published online and we may refrain from using the term ‘paper’ anymore, but a presentation structure is still well preserved.
In this webinar, we will discuss innovative approaches to the traditional journal article that enhance the quality of scientific results as well as reward the authors.
Images: Vinodh Ilangovan, Girija Goyal, Lawrence Rajendran, Courtney Soderberg.
Vinodh Ilangovan, Webinar Chair; Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry; eLife Early-Career Advisory Group
Vinodh studies the role of circadian clocks in organismal physiology at the Department of Genes and Behavior, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen. They are a Max Planck Open Access Ambassador with an interest in the reproducible nature of research outputs in different stages of the research cycle.
Twitter: @InquisitiveVi
Girija Goyal, Co-founder, ReFigure
Girija is an early-career researcher and co-founder of ReFigure.org, a project supported by the eLife Innovation Initiative. Girija wants to drive real change with her science and realized that to do so, science communication would have to change too.
Twitter: @GirijaGoyal
Lawrence Rajendran, Professor, University of Zurich; CEO, ScienceMatters
A recipient of many awards and honors, Lawrence featured in the world’s top 100 scientists in 2009. As an expert in the cell biology of Alzheimer’s disease, he is also one of the founding members of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV). He is currently Velux Stiftung Professor for Systems and Cell Biology of Neurodegeneration, at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and the CEO of ScienceMatters. He founded ScienceMatters in 2015 to fundamentally change the way we publish and communicate science.
Twitter: @SciMts
Courtney Soderberg, Statistical and Methodological Consultant, Open Science Framework
Courtney leads statistical and methodological consulting and training activities at the Center for Open Science (COS; https://cos.io), which aims to increase openness, integrity and reproducibility of scientific research. In this position, she collaborates with researchers and stakeholders across scientific disciplines and organizations to increase awareness of the issues leading to low levels of reproducibility. She also guides researchers through implementing new statistical, methodological and workflow approaches to help increase the reproducibility of their work. Courtney has served as the in-house statistician for COS projects including the Reproducibility Project: Psychology, Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, and Evaluating Registered Reports. She has also delivered over 50 workshops on Reproducible Research Practices and worked with over 200 researchers on individual methodological consultations.
Courtney received her PhD in Social Psychology, with a minor in Quantitative Psychology, from the University of California, Davis. Before that, she earned an MA in Social Psychology from UC Davis and a BA in Psychology from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Twitter: @cksoderberg
