Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #criticalappraisal, aggregated by home.social.
Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.
#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo
📢 New Book Alert!
📚 '‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’: Reading the Poems of #AlexanderPope' by William Hutchings is now available!
This book offers a chronological journey through #Pope's poetic masterpieces, from #Pastorals to the #Dunciad.
👉Each of the 26 chapters provides a close and insightful look, demonstrating how close reading can generate an understanding of a whole #poem and how #criticalappraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire #poetic career.
Scholarly yet accessible, this book is a must-read for #scholars, #students, and anyone enchanted by #Pope's timeless #poetry.
Look what I just found! A website that reports and classifies #criticalappraisal tools ❤️
https://www.catevaluation.ca/index.php/en/ #UsefulTool
Reading Clinical Studies: Taking off the rose colored glasses and the peril if we don’t. Today, 5pm, by Consilium Scientific.
Prof Nathan Cherny on systematic critical evaluation of clinical studies to find common biases in oncology research:
1. Surrogate endpoints
2. Study design & implementation that exaggerate survival
3. Post hoc & subgroup analyses, confirmatory vs conjectural findings
#ClinicalResearch #CriticalAppraisal #HowToReadAPaper #Webinar #MedMastodon
@karolina @pwgtennant If meta-science involves careful critical appraisal and an assessment of methodological and reporting quality, then bad science doesn't prevent meta-science from proceeding. Naïve analyses will admittedly be GIGO. #MetaScience #BadScience #ResearchQuality #CriticalAppraisal
@aidanhorner - the widely cited #MetaAnalysis of workplace h&s training lacks #CriticalAppraisal - my uni doesn't enforce compliance, so I lack the motivation. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JWL-11-2015-0087/full/html