Katie Corker

@katiecorker@scholar.social
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community organizer working towards rigor and openness in scientific research. executive director at ASAPbio; executive officer at SIPS. socially: craft beer, board games, backpacking/nature, academic mama. views my own!
Katie CorkerMar 29
Show threadLudo WaltmanMar 29

Important role of @EuroGeosciences journals and Copernicus Publications in advancing preprinting and open peer review is also visible in recent piece about publish-review-curate model that I co-authored with @katiecorker and @JACoates: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/h7swt.

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OSF

Katie CorkerMar 29
Show threadLudo WaltmanMar 29

I fully support recommendation of authors to "introduce appropriate elements of transparency and open peer review in all peer-reviewed OA publications".

It is depressing that most peer-reviewed articles are still published without the review reports, so with no insight into the peer review process.

Katie CorkerMar 26
Ludo WaltmanMar 26

I just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements.

https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/assessment-reform-and-publishing-reform-need-to-go-hand-in-hand

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Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand

The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful only if they manage to align their agendas.

Show threadKatie CorkerJan 14
The piece is written by us as individuals, not on behalf of any of the many movements that we support and lead, including CoARA, DORA, HELIOS Open, cOAlition S, the Barcelona Declaration, the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Schol. Comm, the INORMS research evaluation group, and ASAPbio.
Show threadKatie CorkerJan 14

We hope that our criteria generate discussion, but also action towards supporting databases that are better aligned with these criteria. We assert "The future success of a bibliographic database will depend on its ability to work with the community to support innovation in scholarly communication."

Thanks to @gin, Caitlin Carter, @JACoates, @KellyCobey, @katiecorker, @lizziegadd, @MsPhelps, Rebecca Lawrence, Eva Mendez, @cameronneylon, @jannepolonen, Bodo Stern, and @LudoWaltman

Show threadKatie CorkerJan 14

In contrast, we propose four criteria that characterize innovation-friendly bibliographic databases.

1. Recognize the broad variety of use cases for bibliographic databases and the need to offer flexibility to address different use cases in appropriate ways.

2. Accommodate diverse approaches to scholarly communication.

3. Acknowledge the importance of open peer review reports and other markers of trust.

4. Ensure involvement of the research community in the governance of the database.

Show threadKatie CorkerJan 14
The problem: "Researchers might expect that bibliographic databases are simply faithfully cataloging the scholarly corpus as it is published, but in actuality, many databases play an active role in choosing what to index and what to avoid. Some databases, notably Web of Science and Scopus, have built their brands on being highly selective, using bespoke (and often opaque) selection processes to determine what research 'counts' and gets to be included in a database."
Show threadKatie CorkerJan 14
Together with 12 colleagues from across the research assessment and scholarly publishing ecosystem, today we propose four criteria for innovation friendly bibliographic databases. The full piece is here: https://upstream.force11.org/criteria-for-bibliographic-databases/
Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databases that support and do not hinder innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.

Upstream
Katie CorkerJan 14
Recent events involving indexing of @eLife articles in Web of Science and Scopus have caused us @ASAPbio to reflect on how databases could better support innovation and experimentation in scholarly publishing. Now, we suggest changes to improve the ecosystem - THREAD 🧵
Katie CorkerOct 29, 2024
Hi @jamesheathers I was trying to tell some people about election sausage and doing a piss poor job at it. Can you please do an AMA for @paulwalk and me?