Group 6
My PI doesn’t want me to publish my manuscript in an open science journal
Group 7
Pre-registration is not mandatory to get a grant.
- Pros: 1) Researchers can choose to publish only successful studies and omit negative outcomes.
- Cons: 1) Negative outcomes are not published leading to unnecessary replication of experiments. 2) Researchers willing to give extra feedback about your research cannot since your hypothesis hasn't been published.
Solution ideas:
- Publish data showing how pre-registration is improving the quality of research
- Give rewards for pre-registration (monetary, bonus for future grant applications).
- Publish data showing how pre-registration is improving the quality of research to convince the researchers.
Alternative impact measurements are not officially recognized nor spread in the science community.
- Pros: 1) The current system is well stablished and known so it is easy to refer to. 2) The research impact is not biassed by what the general public find attractive or novel.
- Cons: 1) Some research might be having more impact in the society than what is currently recognized.
Workshop session 2:
Group 4's solution for: My PI doesn’t want me to publish my manuscript in an open science journal
- Problem: scientists look to publish in high impact factor journals, which are, for now, neither free, nor open access. The main brake against stepping to free, open access journals is the big money involved in the process and the kind of lobbying that publicists impose on scientists through impact factor and publication record keeping.
-Solutions: increase impact factor of open science journals: Pushing towards publication in open access journal. The biggest institutions (Cambridge, EPFL... ) should promote publications in open access journals.
- The money spent in journals by universities could be invested to sustain open access journals.
- Screwing with impact factor: Stop citing "closed" journals for two years to drop their impact factor to zero while try citing more open access journals. How to do this while still citing relevant work? Just publish one "last" paper full of relevant citations in an open access journals.
- Rewarding scientists for refereeing/publishing in open access papers (taking this into account in the next generation's h-factor).
Tuesday 26th