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  1. Point of View: Journal clubs in the time of preprints

    Prachee Avasthi et al.
    Early-career researchers can learn about peer review by discussing preprints at journal clubs and sending feedback to the authors.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Meta-Research: Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations

    Erin C McKiernan et al.
    Almost a quarter of faculty evaluation documents from US and Canadian universities mention Journal Impact Factor and often imply that it measures research quality.

  3. Webinar Report: Alternatives to the traditional journal article as a minimal unit of productivity

    How can researchers share their science without waiting for articles to appear in journals?

  4. Redesigning an online scientific journal from the article up I: Early designs

    Our approach to redesigning a better journal reading experience, starting with the Research Article.

  5. Research: Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

    Daniel S Himmelstein et al.
    The availability of almost all articles from toll access journals in the Sci-Hub repository will disrupt scholarly publishing towards more open models.

  6. Meta-Research: A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals

    Diana Herrera-Perez et al.
    An analysis of more than 3000 randomized controlled trials published in JAMA, the Lancet and NEJM has identified 396 medical reversals.
    1. Human Biology and Medicine

    Meta-Research: Gender variations in citation distributions in medicine are very small and due to self-citation and journal prestige

    Jens Peter Andersen et al.
    In studies of gender disparities in academia, increased focus is required on within-group variability and between-group overlap of distributions when interpreting and reporting results.

  8. Plain-language Summaries: Journals and other organizations that produce plain-language summaries

    We have compiled a list of over 50 journals and other organizations that publish plain-language summaries of scientific research.

  9. Research funder open-access journal, eLife, celebrates first year of publication.

  10. Website for new open-access journal, ‘eLife', introduced today (Wellcome Trust)

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