Publish and perish? – Sveriges Unga Akademi

Bruce Alberts Former Editor in Chief at Science, former President of the National Academy of Sciences, USA

Tony Hyman Research Group Leader and Director, The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)

Arne Johansson Professor in Mechanics, Vice President,the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Catriona MacCallum Senior Advocacy Manager PLOS, and Consulting Editor at PLOS ONE

Tommy Ohlsson Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Brandon Stell Research Associate, CNRS, Co-Team Leader, Laboratoire de Physiologie Crbrale Universit Paris Descartes

09.30 Coffee

10.00 Welcome!

10.10 How can a nation support excellence in scientific research and teaching? Bruce Alberts

11.00 Publication assessment and university governance Arne Johansson

11.30 Encouraging innovation through peer review and evaluation Tony Hyman

12.00 Lunch

12.45 Scientific Communication on Trial Catriona MacCallum

13.15 Open Access Publishing with arXiv Tommy Ohlsson

13.45 Coffee

14.15 Introducing PubPeer Brandon Stell

14.45 Panel discussion 15.30 End

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the longest running scientific journal: The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London). Already at its inception, it had the fundamental functions usually associated with scientific publishing such as registration of submission and publication dates, peer review, and means for dissemination and archiving. Today scientific publishing is more important than ever, with the number of journals rapidly growing, and the perceived success of a scientist to an increasing degree defined by scientific publications, with particular pressure to publish in so-called high-impact journals. In parallel these trends appear to put in question the value of the traditional scientific peer review, both in the publication process where newsworthiness, impact and potential for citations may trump scientific rigor, and in evaluation for tenured positions, where bibliometric indices and impact assessment tools risk reducing a young scientists work to a number.

At the seminar we will discuss the rapidly changing scientific publishing landscape and its implications. How does the increasing number of journals and the increasing focus on journal impact change how science is carried out and how young scientist choose their topics and plan their research? What is the impact of entirely open and non-reviewed pre-publication online archives are they promising new solutions to effective dissemination and open science, or of little value to young scientists when evaluations put a premium on journal impact? Is the pre-publication peer review model faltering under the increasing volume of peer review and the shrinking time and effort available for peer review? Can post-publication peer review offer a more sustainable solution? Are universities over-relying on bibliometric tools when assessing the value of their tenured researchers and when hiring new researchers?

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