“Learn what they don’t want you to know.” That pretty much captures the conspiracy-laced journey into data you often see…

A couple of heavy-duty battering rams have hit the journal subscription system in Europe. And they are so big, this…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We have a serious problem with errors and irredeemably flawed studies: there’s a lot of them, and they keep leading…

I get linked into a lot of thought-provoking debates about blinded peer review because of a post I wrote a couple…