Publishing Director at The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social. Still with a big soft spot for #devbio. Opinions my own. she/her
https://biologists.com
Katherine Brown
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I try not to care about the number itself, but I do care whether researchers are finding, reading and ideally citing the papers we publish in our journals - because that tells us if they’re useful to the community.
Alex and James have done a great job here in articulating the conflicting issues we face with the dreaded Impact Factor. We all know it’s a highly flawed metric for so many reasons, but its influence is so pervasive across the research ecosystem that it’s hard to completely ignore it.
No single metric (or even set of metrics) can fully capture the value of a paper or a journal, but I do wish we could collectively find a more nuanced approach to research assessment. A decade plus of DORA has helped, but we’ve still got a long way to go…
Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Enjoyed a very convincing talk by @seemagrewal.bsky.social explaining why choosing a non-profit publishers benefits the community; revenues are used to support researchers, rather than filling the pockets of the publisher.
Find more reasons here: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re...
Katherine Brown
As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?"
In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF
The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
If you are attending BaCell3D (@bacell3d.bsky.social) from 22-24 June in Basel, Switzerland, Reviews Editor @ingridtsang.bsky.social will also be there.
Don't forget to chat to Ingrid about @dev-journal.bsky.social and @the-node.bsky.social.
We are pleased to welcome 8 new fellows to our Pathway to Independence programme.
Welcome Maëlle Bellec, @iamzico.bsky.social, @evhealy.bsky.social, @josepmercadal.bsky.social, @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social, Jessica Perochon, Yamini Ravichandran & Margherita Zamboni.
Read more⤵️
tinyurl.com/4bk4wrk7
Do you have a manuscript with reviews from another journal?
We can use them to fast track a decision on your submission.
Read more journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/jo...
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Joachim Goedhart
www.biorxiv.org
Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...
Heading off to Amsterdam for the Dutch Society for Cell Biology conference. Happy to chat about @jcellsci.bsky.social and our not-for-profit status and charitable activities!
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Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
