Sunday, 6 December 2020

Faux peer-reviewed journals: a threat to research integrity

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  Despite all its imperfections, peer review is one marker of scientific quality – it indicates that an article has been evaluated prior to ...
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Sunday, 16 August 2020

PEPIOPs – prolific editors who publish in their own publications

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I recently reported on a method for identifying authors who contribute an unusually high proportion of papers to a specific journal. As I ...
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Monday, 27 July 2020

TEF in the time of pandemic

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An article in the Times Higher today considers the fate of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).  I am a long-term critic of the TEF, on...
Sunday, 12 July 2020

'Percent by most prolific' author score: a red flag for possible editorial bias

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(This is an evolving story: scroll to end of post for updates; most recent update 19th Sept 2020) This week has seen a strange tale unfold...
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Saturday, 6 June 2020

Frogs or termites? Gunshot or cumulative science?

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"Tell us again about Monet, Grandpa." The tl;dr version of this post is that we're all so obsessed with doing new stud...
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Friday, 29 May 2020

Boris Bingo: Strategies for (not) answering questions

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On Wednesday 27th May, the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, appeared before the House of Commons Liaison Committee, to answer questions a...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Manipulated images: hiding in plain sight?

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Many years ago, I took a taxi from Manchester Airport to my home in Didsbury. It’s a 10 minute drive, but the taxi driver took me on a ro...
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Friday, 8 May 2020

Attempting to communicate with the BBC: A masterclass in paltering

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My original blogpost from October 2019 is immediate below - scroll to the end for latest response from BBC A couple of weeks ago there was...