Media
Review, Promotion, and Tenure
- ‘Collegiality’ influences researchers’ promotion prospects, Nature News, April 25, 2022
- The allure of the journal impact factor holds firm, despite its flaws, Nature Index, August 29, 2019
- Survey findings: Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process, LJ’s infoDOCKET, July 30, 2019 [Reblog]
- Do academics overestimate the importance of journal prestige?, Daily Nous, July 30, 2019
- Academics think, ‘others value journal prestige and metrics, not me’, Times Higher Education, July 26, 2019
- For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?, Science, July 25, 2019
- Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community, LSE Impact Blog, July 17, 2019
- The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, LSE Impact Blog, April 26, 2019 [Reblog]
- The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, PeerJ Blog, April 17, 2019
- ‘Undue reliance’ on journal impact factor in academic evaluation, Times Higher Education, April 16, 2019
- Impact factors are still widely used in academic evaluations, Nature News, April 11, 2019
- As scholars are driven to less prestigious journals, new measures of quality emerge, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2019
- Do universities value public engagement? Not much, their policies suggest, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 8, 2018
- Promotion standards and public engagement, Inside Higher Ed, October 5, 2018
- University tenure decisions still gloss over scientists’ public outreach, Nature, October 4, 2018
Science and Health Communication
- The rise of preprint: How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research, University Affairs, May 4, 2022
- How science moved beyond peer review during the pandemic, FiveThirtyEight, July 8, 2021
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Study reveals lack of consistency in reporting of COVID-19-related preprints, The Publication Plan, May 28, 2021 -
Communicating Scientific Uncertainty About COVID-19 — with Alice Fleerackers, Below the Radar, March 16, 2021 - Journalists ‘gloss over’ preprints’ unreliability, Times Higher Education, February 12, 2021
- News outlets vary widely in how they cover the “Wild West” of Covid-19 preprint studies, Nieman Lab, February 8, 2021
- News media outlets vary widely in how they cover preprint studies, new research finds, Journalist’s Resource, January 26, 2021
- Media outlets inconsistently mention uncertain status of COVID-19 preprints, Science Magazine, January 21, 2021
- Pivotal year for preprints, Inside Higher Ed, January 20, 2021
- Today’s top 10 in higher ed, Academia Group, January 20, 2021
- In the rush for coronavirus information, unreviewed scientific papers are being publicized, National Post, January 14, 2021
- Ever-changing pandemic pressures scientific research publication: SFU study, The Abbotsford News, Jan 7, 2021
- About half of media stories fail to label “preprint” COVID-19 research, Medical Xpress, January 6, 2021
- Don’t hold back the vaccine for a second dose. And more new virus science, The Tyee, January 5, 2021
Preprints Uptake and Use
- Are preprints a problem? 5 ways to improve the quality and credibility of preprints. LSE Impact Blog, September 23, 2020
- To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system, LJ’s infoDOCKET, July 29, 2019 [Reblog]
- To preprint or not to preprint? Research for a more transparent publishing system, ASAPbio blog, July 29, 2019 [Reblog]
President’s Dream Colloquium on Making Knowledge Public
- SFU’s President’s Dream Colloquium explores Making Knowledge Public, Nation Talk, September 6, 2018
- President’s Dream Colloquium explores the importance of making academic knowledge accessible to the public, SFU News, September 10, 2018
- Education is our best weapon against fake news, says information expert, StarMetro Vancouver, September 13, 2018
- Interview with Dr. Jevin West, News Talk 980 CKNW, September 13, 2018
Open Access and Open Science
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Building trust in peer review: A Q&A with Dr Mario Malički, BMC On Medicine Blog, September 18, 2020
- Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the Internet, study found, CNN, September 15, 2020
- Nearly 200 journals suddenly went missing on the internet, about 900 more at-risk, Tech Times, September 10, 2020
- And poof! They are gone, Genome Web, September 10, 2020
- More than 100 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, Nature News, September 10, 2020
- Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps, The Register, September 10, 2020
- Research: Nearly 200 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, and 900 may soon disappear [Finnish], Tekniikan Maailma, September 9, 2020
- Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet, and no one preserved them, Science, September 8, 2020
- ‘Bronze’ open access supersedes green and gold, Nature Index, March 12, 2018
- Des chercheurs se mobilisent pour un accès gratuit aux publications, Le Monde, November 6, 2017
- Study Suggests Publisher Public Access Outpacing Open Access; Gold OA Decreases Citation Performance, The Scholarly Kitchen, October 4, 2017
- Research Results Are Increasingly Available For Free, Al-Fanar Media,
- Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free, Quartz,
- Two studies suggest trouble ahead for paywall journals (Update), Phys.org, August 8, 2017
- Half of papers searched for online are free to read, Nature,
- Open Access On the Rise: Study, The Scientist, August 7, 2017
- The State of Open Access: Some New Data, Open and Shut, Thursday, August 03, 2017
- Trend Watch: The State of Open Access, Nature, August 2, 2017
Open Education
- Opinion: Why we need a socially responsible approach to ‘social reading’, The Hechinger Report, April 11, 2022
Altmetrics and Societal Impact
- You must be joking: funny paper titles might lead to more citations, Nature, April 6, 2022
- Twitter transformed science communication during the pandemic. Will it last?, Science Magazine, March 24, 2022
- Research: “Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?”, LJ’s infoDOCKET, August 22, 2019 [Reblog]
- Web presence and social media metrics from articles shared on Twitter – Interview with Stefanie Haustein, SciELO – in Perspective, June 11, 2019 (Portuguese, Spanish, and English)
- Open Science Program | Social Networks and new ways of communicating science – Interview with Germana Barata, FAPESP (Sao Paulo State Research Foundation) in partnership with Folha de Sao Paulo, June 12, 2019 (Portuguese)
Research Metrics
- Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review, Chemical & Engineering News, January 30, 2020