reading, technology, stray thoughts
the handling and citing of the scientific literature is not an afterthought or side activity in the conduct of science. The ability to do so rigorously and with integrity is, after all, why the National Library of Medicine exists. Unfortunately, we don’t treat the handling of the literature as having the same prestige or impact [ ]
While I m in Cambridge, today members of my Information Quality Lab present a talk and 9 posters as part of the iSchool Research Showcase 2024, noon to 4:30 PM in the Illini Union. View posters from 12 to 1; during the break between presentation sessions 2-2:45; and 4-4:30 PM. TALK by Dr. Heng Zheng, based [ ]
Check my latest piece, Retract Now: Negating Flawed Research Must Be Quicker — Incentives and streamlined processes can prevent the spread of incorrect science in Second Opinions , the editorial section of MedPage Today. I argue that It is urgent to be faster and more responsive in retracting publications. Retract Now: Negating Flawed Research Must Be [ ]
Prof. Jodi Schneider’s Information Quality Lab https://infoqualitylab.org seeks a paid graduate hourly researcher ($25/hour) to be a chemistry expert for a computer information system design project. Your work will help us understand a computational chemistry protocol by Willoughby, Jansma, and Hoye (2014 Nature Protocols), and the papers citing this protocol. A code glitch impacted part of [ ]
Part 2 of an occasional series on the Empirical Retraction Lit bibliography Our systematic search for the Empirical Retraction Lit bibliography EXCLUDES retraction notices or retracted publications using database filters. Still, some turn up. (Isn t there always a metadata mess?) While most retraction notices and retracted publications can be excluded at the title screening stage, a [ ]
My newest piece is in The Hill today: Science is littered with zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread. Many people think of science as complete and objective. But the truth is, science continues to evolve and is full of mistakes. Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted. They either contained [ ]
I m pleased that the draft Recommended Practice, NISO RP-45-202X, Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) is open for public comment through December 2, 2023. I m a member of the NISO Working Group which is funded in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in collaboration with my Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science [ ]
Part 1 of an occasional series on the Empirical Retraction Lit bibliography In 2020, my team released the first version of the Empirical Retraction Lit bibliography, updated a number of times. The last updates are July 2021 (content); September 2021 (taxonomy); December 2022 (JSON/web design giving access to the taxonomy). The bibliography is part of [ ]
What policymakers need are things that we [researchers] don t value so much. Meta-analyses. What do we know about a given topic. If we survey 1000 papers on a given topic, what does the preponderance of the evidence say about a thing? Obviously the incentive structures in academia are about smaller mechanisms, or about making those [ ]
My Information Quality Lab presents 14 posters as part of the iSchool Research Showcase 2023, Wednesday noon to 4:30 PM in the Illini Union. View posters from 12 to 1; during the break between presentation sessions 2:15-2:45; and 3:30-4:30 PM. Visualizing Race in MedicineChris Wiley Three-Dimensional Archiving of Native American Artifacts at the Spurlock MuseumDavid [ ]