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
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

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, September 29, 2017
Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free, Quartz, August 9, 2017
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, August 7, 2017
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