21st January 2020
The cost of rudeness
Unprofessional review comments affect authors from underrepresented groups disproportionately. Journal editors must take a more active role to minimize the potentially adverse effects of such comments.
20th June 2016
Beyond disciplines: the travails of transcendence
The move toward greater inter- and transdisciplinarity creates opportunities as well as challenges for researchers, publishers, funders and communicators.
6th October 2015
Fixing science’s quality control
The peer review system is vital to the scientific process, yet it is marred by shortcomings related to reliability and bias. Several recent initiatives pushed by science publishers are now…