Comment from PubMed Commons
Jim Woodgett | Aug 14 2014 12:31 ESTWhile Alberts et al. describe the situation in the USA, they might take a look to their north where the equivalent funding agency to NIH (except with a 30th of the…
Jim Woodgett | Aug 14 2014 12:31 ESTWhile Alberts et al. describe the situation in the USA, they might take a look to their north where the equivalent funding agency to NIH (except with a 30th of the…
I believe one major factor is being overlooked; the recent increase in career longevity. Alberts et. al point out that average age to first tenure-track position and first NIH funding has…
David Colquhoun | Aug 14 2014 04:44 ESTI think that the problems are stated very well in this article. See also 'The Mismeasurement of Science' (http://www...
Melissa Vaught | May 06 2014 19:44 ESTIn this perspective, Alberts et al reference a white paper published by the American Society for Biochemistry
Kenneth D Gibbs | Apr 28 2014 19:09 ESTThe potential, downward impacts of the current system are real. In speaking to recent biomedical science Ph...
L Charles Murtaugh | Apr 18 2014 02:55 ESTI found Dr. Bishop's comments interesting and provocative. In particular, I quite like the idea that granting agencies should "require grantholders to write…
Allison Stelling | Apr 18 2014 13:02 ESTL Charles Murtaugh: "reduce the temptation to package all results into "stories" that compromise messy scientific reality for the sake of superficially…
Allison Stelling | Apr 17 2014 09:10 ESTThe other issue is that the entire United States biomedical endeavor is severely underfunded, by about an order of magnitude...
Greg Lennon | May 09 2014 13:01 ESTThis article is certainly worthy of discussion, not just due to the credibility and experience of its authors, but I hope that future publications will be able to…
Dorothy V M Bishop | Apr 17 2014 02:54 ESTThanks to Alberts et al for opening up this discussion. While I agree with many of their points, I was rather disappointed in their proposed solutions...
The authors put the blame for "the inflated value given to publishing in a small number of so-called 'high impact' journals" squarely on the shoulders of competition for resources...
There's also been a few comments up on PubMed Commons, one by me (below Dorothy Bishop's, which I'm linking to): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24733905#cm24733905_4012 -Allison (@DrStelling)