It should never be a rushed afterthought. An awful lot is riding on the quality of scientific abstracts. Most readers will rely…

What should scientific editors be able to do well? We would all be able to agree easily on some basics…

As soon as people started getting serious about systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the 1970s, the bashing started. It’s not…

It’s easy to be a little blinded by the specialized statistical techniques in systematic reviews and meta-analyses. As with any type…

Technically, the “most journals don’t charge authors” statement could well be true. Most open access journals may not charge authors…

There’s a sort of Godwin’s Law for discussions on open peer review. Sooner or later, someone’s going to say, “We can’t expect early…

It was a turning point. The previous year, the US Civil Rights Act had passed. On 26 January 1969 in…

All those “Reviewer 2″s – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em! So how can we improve both the quality of…

It’s not enough to mean well, is it? Principles matter, but so do the effects of acting on our strongly held…

This was the fifth year I tracked events in open access. Sifting through the mass of developments I collected along…

A paper recently dropped a trio of randomized trials of an infographic going head-to-head with text. The reaction to the performance…

It’s way too easy to get a false impression of a study’s results. The combination of jargon and specialized measurement techniques can get…