OpinionStop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions
By Bert Bakker & Jakob Kasper
Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common
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NewsVideo: Professor Peter Bergeijk's 'On the inaccuracies of economic observations'
By Marcel Hobma
Video: Professor Peter Bergeijk's On the inaccuracies of economic observations
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NewsJOTE Has a New Publishing Format: Registered Reports
By Marcel Hobma & Sarahanne Field
We will welcome submissions for registered reports (RRs)! We see moves to publishing RRs as part of a broader, cultural move in academia towards more rigorous and transparent research.
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InterviewJOTE in Conversation: Michael Burke. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"
By Marcel Hobma & Stefan Gaillard
Professor of rhetoric at Utrecht University Michael Burke talks about failure and academic publishing. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"
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OpinionEvaluative Measures or Game-Able Targets? Academic Competition Can Turn Even Qualitative Measures into Targets for Researchers
By Marcel Hobma
Although the global switch from quantitative to qualitative evaluation measures is certainly necessary, without lowering academic competition they too might become game-able targets.
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OpinionHow 'Recognition and Rewards' in Dutch Academia Turned Metrics into Incentives
By Martijn van der Meer
In recent attempts to reform research assesment, metrics have explicitly become “incentives”. Yet, the Dutch debate about this transition focussed on the wrong elements.
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OpinionNot All That Shines Is Diamond: Why Open Access Publication Favors Rich Authors, Prestigious Universities and Industry-Funded Research
By Marcel Hobma
More and more researchers pay processing costs for publishing in Open Access, but these costs disadvantage authors who are female, early in their career or, from low-income countries.
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