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Is it acceptable as a journal to set a standard threshold for acceptable levels of text overlap in submissions?

#COPE very clear and brief: NO. https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/determining-acceptable-levels-plagiarismduplication

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

"In retrospect, these strategies were a form of authorial self-preservation."

Autoethnography of the rhetorical and emotional dimensions of writing about study limitations:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161251363704

The paper draws on 8 manuscripts, 17 drafts, 22 #PeerReview by the author, journal entries, and email exchanges.

Interesting reflections & it illustrates the challenges and questions, especially if one has not written many manuscripts, yet.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting #NightshiftEditor #ECRs

. @alexh talked about letters rejecting #PeerReview requests for specific publishers, e.g., here on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexholcombe_declining-another-review-request-from-an-share-7426356814121689088-N0Kz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAD0JHkBcK9LoDUuScfOpFwbt_UMALGWLV8

@priyasilverstein discussed the role of editors in #OpenScience, and offered the example of the guide for #SocialScience journal editors on easing into #OpenScience
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5
#JEDI #JournalEditing #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

RE: https://fediscience.org/@alexh/116518145538497476

This was really interesting 👏

Some slides from the event have been posted here:
https://zenodo.org/communities/muecos/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

And some of the resources and topics that came up 👇

The #ECR reviewer's platform aims to empower junior reviewers and equip #ECRs with the necessary skills to conduct methodologically rigorous reviews
ecr-reviewers.gitlab.io/guide/
#PostGraduate #PGR

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

Interesting pointer from a #JEDI thread:
Description of a process to integrate evaluation of computational reproducibility into #PeerReview:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-253/v2

I also like the ethos and wonder whether #PeerReview in general could learn from this?

1. Codecheckers record but don’t investigate or fix.
2. Communication between humans is key
3. Credit is given to codecheckers.
4. Computational workflows must be auditable.
5. Open by default and transitional by disposition.

#NightshiftEditor

Got a #PeerReview request from an electronic #OpenAccess journal that charges APCs. So far so normal.

But they charge an additional fee of US$100 per page if a paper exceeds page count limits. Admittedly, those are set realistically (for my field at least). But in an electronic journal?

#NightshiftEditor

I recently had to re-visit SAGE's "Reviewer's Guide"* and was surprised that it still contained these questions to guide the formation of the first impression of a paper:

Is this paper relevant for the journal?

Is this research significant within the field?

Is the work presented novel?

Does it add to the subject area?

Arguably, none of these are questions for reviewers to answer.

#PeerReview #NightshiftEditor
* https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/how_to_become_a_reviewer_new_0.pdf

Great @EASE seminar yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYWGlatYZQ

Really good content also for authors, PIs, #PeerReview -ers & people who consider #RCT methodology for future work.

The discussion was lively and covered some advanced topics.

One key moment:
the broader landscape of registrations, and within that the specific trial requirements, is often not covered well in the literature and such talks - for more, check in at 6:24min

#Registration #PreRegistration #RCT #NightshiftEditor #AcademicWriting

Touching on trials, reporting guidelines, and journal publishing/ editing - this
@EASE science webinar on 30.09. sounds very promising:
https://ease.org.uk/event/ease-germany-webinar-clinical-trial-transparency-from-registration-to-results-reporting/

#NightshiftEditor #AcademicPublishing #RCTs

Brittany Lapin and I edited* the joint publication of the PRISMA-COSMIN guidelines for Outcome Measurement Instruments 2024 in four journals last year:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980635/

It is great to see that this is now also accompanied by table templates for communication of results
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-025-04058-y

#NightshiftEditor #ReportingGuidelines #AcademicPublishing #SysReview #Psychometrics
* https://osf.io/preprints/osf/ukw93_v1

Brittany Lapin and I edited* the joint publication of the PRISMA-COSMIN guidelines for Outcome Measurement Instruments 2024 in four journals last year:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980635/

It is great to see that this is now also accompanied by table templates for communication of results
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-025-04058-y

#NightshiftEditor #ReportingGuidelines #AcademicPublishing #SysReview #Psychometrics
* https://osf.io/preprints/osf/ukw93_v1

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am a researcher at #DundeeUni and interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQoL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethodology and #ResearchMethods with a focus on #Quantitative methods.

I worked for 7yrs as a #NightshiftEditor and I am still mulling over roles in and sense of #AcademicPublishing

This is mainly a work account, but I also post #Dundee stuff such as #DunDeCofaidh and occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig (👉 pure work account at BSky)

Tired of using the same old repository for publishing your #PrePrints and materials?

Maybe a look at the
Directory of #OpenAccess Preprint Repositories*
is helpful:
https://doapr.coar-repositories.org/

#NightshiftEditor #AcademicPublishing
*Talk to (research) librarians. They know stuff!

Having worked with such data, #PeerReview-ed such submissions, as well as been the editor of such papers, I think papers reporting results based on data collected in routine monitoring come with ethical issues. And the above is a core selection of what needs to be clarified when manuscripts are submitted to journals.

#PublicationEthics #NightshiftEditor

#ISOQOL

#1/
Excellent talk by Kevin Weinfurt in #Plenary1 discussing multiple types of measures (go also to #Plenary4 for that!), increased use of high-intensity longitudinal data, and generative AI for assessments.

Start reading his work:
https://rdcu.be/dWXSz
#HRQL #Psychometrics

#2/
Not sure this is what the #ISOQOL_NewInvestigators wanted when asking me to talk about advice for manuscript writing, but this is the slide people talked to me about 👇
#NightshiftEditor #ScientificPublishing

#1/ First day of #ISOQOL started with an interesting symposium on progress when optimizing the collection of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials.

Part of the discussion were desirable changes to the publication system when publishing expert consensus and guidance documents:

1) What does #PeerReview for such a document look like?

2) Static journal publications may not be the best format for such documents.

Both seem solvable, no?
#HTD

#NightshiftEditor #RCT #ScientificPublishing

A #ScopingReview on #MissingData reporting in observational studies that use #MultipleImputation for causal effect estimation:
https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-024-02302-6

Informative read beyond the particular application.

As a #NightshiftEditor I am still working more on the problem that most studies do not even report their sampling and take it for granted that complete-data only analyses are fine.

As noted before 😉
https://mastodon.social/deck/@jrboehnke/111153230472611135

New #AcademicYear - New #introduction

I am interested in health-related quality of life
#HRQL #Psychometrics

I teach #ResearchMethods modules in the #DundeeUni #ProfDoc
#Interdisciplinary #RD62001 #RD62002

I convene our School's #ResearchEthics committee

My terms as academic editor of 'Quality of Life Research' come to an end, and I am mulling over roles and sense in #AcademicPublishing
#NightshiftEditor

There may be some occasional #Deutsch #Svenska #Gaidhlig and local stuff in my feed.

Recommendations for conduct and write-up of observational studies from my #NightshiftEditor threads got some attention on #LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7229141904678887424/

The five suggested papers in brief:

1) STROBE
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

2) Confounder selection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

3) DAG tutorial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821727/

4) Table 2 Fallacy
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/177/4/292/147738?login=false

5) Prediction vs causation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974?login=false

#AcademicWriting #Epidemiology #StudyDesign

Reflecting that I started using #NightshiftEditor 2+ years ago:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7224353965084217344/

Main point of my first post then was that there are tools to help avoiding unwanted references to retracted papers such as the #RetractionWatch data base
https://retractionwatch.com/retraction-watch-database-user-guide/

and you can link tools such as @zotero https://www.zotero.org/blog/retracted-item-notifications/
or since last year even #Endnote:
https://support.clarivate.com/Endnote/s/article/EndNote-20-Retraction-Alerts?language=en_US

#PaperWriting #Retraction #ResearchIntegrity

Discussing null and negative results, Sarahanne Field (EiC at the Journal of Trial & Error, @smirandafield) describes the conundrum well:
They aren't interested in papers in which “you did a shitty study and you found nothing. We’re interested in stuff that was done methodologically soundly, but still yielded a result that was unexpected”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor
HT @cyrilpedia

In my recent "How to publish" workshop I talked about initiatives breaking different aspects of the traditional model to raise awareness for alternatives when planning paper submissions:

Octopus
https://www.octopus.ac/

@PeerCommunityIn https://peercommunityin.org/

@ResearchEquals https://www.researchequals.com/

@CenterforOpenScience https://www.cos.io/lifecyclejournals

Any pointers to what else I should cover?

#AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor #PeerReview #AcademicChatter

Quality of Life Research 05-2024

https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/33-5

#ISOQOL

#HRQL of people w heart failure in #LMICs

https://rdcu.be/dF2sX

#SysReview

#QOL of people living w mental illness in Africa

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03525-8

#SysReview #SMI #Multimorbidity

#NightshiftEditor seven issues to go...

Just my usual #NightshiftEditor reminder that when you are currently working on the (secondary) analysis of a data set and thinking of applying some regression modelling, here are some good resources:

#STROBE for reporting
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

Thinking about confounders
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

Prediction vs causation
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974

And avoiding the #Table2Fallacy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626058/

#HRQL

Today's #NightshiftEditor session was brought to you by #Hiromi #TinyDesk #Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnISpahN2dM

"The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value was 0.94, which means that the sample size is adequate for #FactorAnalysis."

#PeerReview #NightshiftEditor #Psychometrics

At the International Meeting of the Society for #PsychotherapyResearch @milahall and I will present a full day workshop on

"How to establish an equitable #OpenAccess publishing model for Psychotherapy Research"

With support from C Flückiger & R Manubens, inputs from external contributors, and hopefully many and diverse #ECRs and colleagues this workshop promises to be(come) interesting.

#NightshiftEditor

Collaborating with the team of [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03574-z] led to the following letter giving more detail about the proprietary nature of NIH #PROMIS parameters and how to use perturbation to facilitate transparency in measure development
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-023-03572-1

#HRQL #Psychometrics
#NightshiftEditor

Newsletter reporting Quality of Life Research awards and statistics from 2022
https://www.isoqol.org/news-from-quality-of-life-research-2024/

We (+ Brittany Lapin, Richard Skolasky) are immensely grateful to all authors submitting, our team of associate editors, and everyone else supporting the journal (e.g., peer-review, language editing)!

#QualityTALK #ISOQOL #HRQL #NightshiftEditor

It has not been a secret for a while, but now it is official:

My two terms as CoEiC come to an end in Dec 2024, and the deadline for applications has been made public:
🔥 06.05.2024

More information on our parent society's pages here:
https://www.isoqol.org/isoqol-seeks-co-editor-in-chief-qlr-2024/

#NightshiftEditor #HRQL #AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing