In 2002, Parks forecast that the new breed of free-to-publish and free-to-read (i.e., so-called ‘platinum’ or ‘diamond’ open access) electronic journals would gain little traction in the research community, who would instead continue to publish their research in high-impact, privately-owned legacy journals (Parks, 2002). According to Parks’ analysis, every actor... [Read More]

In stark contrast to current technologies, the vast majority of scholarly research is still published using pipelines designed for the 18th century printing press. In the traditional publishing pipeline, authors send their article to an editor, who decides to either send it out for peer review or reject it outright.... [Read More]

Recent decades have seen an explosion of interest in moving beyond the traditional pre-publication peer review model – along with its many documented problems (e.g., see Brembs, 2019) – and toward a post-publication peer review / open evaluation (OE) model that would leverage the internet to increase the speed, reliability... [Read More]

This blog is the prelude to a series of posts in which I outline my vision for an information revolution within academia and beyond. In a previous post, I shared the end-goal: tackling misinformation by developing a new knowledge system based on the reliability of information. In this post, I... [Read More]

I recently had a conversation with a friend in which he suggested that Ivermectin had been shown to be an effective treatment for COVID-19. My first instinct was to think that I would probably have heard more about this drug via my research networks if it had been shown to... [Read More]

If you were to ask me what is the single biggest problem in the world today, I would say: misinformation. This is not because I think misinformation itself is a problem – everyone has a right to believe whatever they like, after all – but because misinformation is the principle... [Read More]