Björn Brembs

Universität Regensburg

http://brembs.net - @brembs

Björn Brembs

Universität Regensburg

http://brembs.net - @brembs

Scientists produce publications, dataand code

Dysfunctional scholarly literature

• Limited access

• No scientific impact analysis

• Lousy peer-review

• No global search

• No functional hyperlinks

• Useless data visualization

• No submission standards

• (Almost) no statistics

• No content-mining

• No effective way to sort, filter and discover

• No networking feature

• etc.

…it’s like the

web in 1995!

Scientific data in peril

Report on Integration of Data and Publications, ODE Report 2011http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=ODE+Report+on+Integration+of+Data+and+Publications

Non-existent software archives

• Email

• Webspace

• Blog

• Library access card

• ‘Green’ OA repository

• No archiving of publications

• No archiving of code

• No archiving of data

575+ solutions and counting…

Only the best publish in high-ranking journals

• Negotiable

• Irreproducible

• Mathematicallyunsound

Brembs, B., Button, K., & Munafò, M. (2013). Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291

Is journal prestige like astrology?

The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers' citations in the digital age (2012): George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras arXiv:1205.4328

Macleod MR, et al. (2015) Risk of Bias in Reports of In Vivo Research: A Focus for Improvement. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002273

Brembs, B., Button, K., & Munafò, M. (2013). Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291

Munafò, M., Stothart, G., & Flint, J. (2009). Bias in genetic association studies and impact factor DOI: 10.1038/mp.2008.77

Brown, E. N., & Ramaswamy, S. (2007). Quality of protein crystal structures. doi:10.1107/S0907444907033847

“High-Impact” journals attract the most unreliable research

Fang et al. (2012): Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1212247109

Data from: Fang, F., & Casadevall, A. (2011). RETRACTED SCIENCE AND THE RETRACTION INDEX DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05661-11

“Do you trust scientists?”

The disaster that is our digital infrastructure

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Emerald spokesperson

Save time and money by making scienceopen by default as an added benefit

Effortless, low-risk and by default

Software to control the experiment and save the data

Software to analyze and visualize the data

Publikationstätigkeit(vollständige Publikationsliste, darunter Originalarbeiten als Erstautor/in, Seniorautor/in, Impact-Punkte insgesamt und in den letzten 5 Jahren, darunter jeweils gesondert ausgewiesen als Erst- und Seniorautor/in, persönlicher Scientific Citations Index (SCI, h-Index nach Web ofScience) über alle Arbeiten)

Publications:Complete list of publications, including original research papers as firstauthor, senior author, impact points total and in the last 5 years, withmarked first and last-authorships, personal Scientific Citations Index (SCI, h-Index according to Web of Science) for all publications.

1) Publish in the “Journal of Unreliable Research” of your field – or take your chances

#getyourGlam

2) Publish everything else where publication isquick and where it can be widely read

#dontwastetimepublishing

3) Ask your PI what will happen to all the workyou put into your code & data and how you canget as many people as possible to use it

#openscience

1. #getyourGlam

2. #dontwastetimepublishing

3. #openscience

4. #wearyouropenonyoursleeve

(Sources: Van Noorden, R. (2013). Open access: The true cost of science publishing. doi:10.1038/495426a, Packer, A. L. (2010). The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South. Can. J. High. Educ. 39, 111–126)

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Scientific source code

Research data

Narrative

The square traversal process has been the

foundation of scholarly communication for nearly

400 years!