Event overview
This Psychology Department Seminar will be given by Professor Zoltan Dienes, University of Sussex. A must for anyone with an interest in academic publishing!
Abstract
In 2021 we launched a process by which Registered Reports submitted on a preprint server could be edited, reviewed and accepted (or not: "recommended" or not in our terms), in a way free for authors, free for readers, and free for institutions, using Peer Community In (PCI). (PCI is funded by a number of universities.) As the resulting manuscript is not published by us as such, it can be published by a standard journal (should an author wish). 112 stage 1s and 32 Stage 2s have already been accepted, with the work of 102 recommenders.
We have (so far) 33 "PCI Friendly" journals, i.e. those that guarantee to accept any paper we have recommended, bar some minor provisions (journal remit, APCs); PCI Friendly journals include Cortex and Royal Society Open Science. The author can thus choose at the end which journal they would prefer to publish in. We hope this novel approach to scientific publishing expands beyond the Registered Reports format -indeed, PCI Psychology is in the process of being set up. We have also introduced important innovations in the Registered Report process itself to deal with some weaknesses.
Biography
Zoltan has been faculty at the University of Sussex since 1990. He promotes the use of Bayes factors for hypothesis testing (following the motto "a B for every p"; and creating the first online Bayes factor calculator in 2008) and is interested in publishing reform (for the last three years, adopting the policy of not authoring, reviewing nor editing for any journal run by a for-profit publisher, excepting society journals). He was an editor on the first Registered Reports editorial team (for Cortex in 2013, sadly giving up his post there when adopting his rule of not dealing with for-profits).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Jan 2024 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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