Author: Shane O'Mara
Neuroscientist, Psychologist, Writer View all posts by Shane O'Mara
A Neuroscientific Blog
Small Steps Toward A Much Better World
Refusing to Stick to the Subject
Free Expression • Humanism • Culture • Politics • Human Rights • Science
Science journalism by Leonid Schneider, on research integrity and academic publishing in life sciences and biomedicine
Legal & Political Commentary, with a slight twist
Articles about the UK Civil Service and Regulation
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. ~ Neil Peart
Thoughts on Brexit from BEERG's Tom Hayes
Shane O'Mara's experimental brain research lab.
A History of the Alt-Right
Town Design and Transportation Planning
Thoughts, Musings, Links and Essays from Perspectiva.
Reviews and commentary on computational biology by Lior Pachter
A methodology blog for social psychology
Companion to Behavioural Public Policy journal (CUP)
Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling
Knowledge That Can Change The World
simple steps to improve statistical analyses in neuroscience & psychology
Really? I must say that I cannot agree that open access journals provide a safeguard against the sorts of problems outlined here and attributed to subscription journals. In my experience, some quite prominent open access journals seem to have exceptionally light refereeing and are willing to publish the most scanty of ‘reviews’ – many essentially opinion pieces – as if they were proper scientific papers. I am not talking about PLOS ONE here, where the refereeing in my experience is reasonably comparable with that in many subscription journals, but there are others where it seems that you simply have to pay over your 1.5 thousand dollars, and hey-presto, you have a publication. Strangely enough, in spite of this apparent policy, some of these journals seem to manage to get reasonably high impact. But I do very much worry about the quality of refereeing for the empirical papers in these journals and in my experience, this is more of a problem in the open-access ones, than in the good subscription ones.