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The future of the science publishing ego- system

The future of the science publishing ego- system. Jan Velterop – LIBER 2013 – June 26 – München. The future of the science publishing ego- system. E go-system? . Advertising scientific prowess. Publish or Perish. Read or Rot. Changes to the Current Publishing System.

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The future of the science publishing ego- system

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  1. The future of the science publishing ego-system Jan Velterop – LIBER 2013 – June 26 – München

  2. The future of the science publishing ego-system

  3. Ego-system?  Advertising scientific prowess

  4. Publish or Perish

  5. Read or Rot

  6. Changes to the Current Publishing System • Increasing Open Access — new models • Separation of Peer Review and Publishing • Changes to Peer Review — more open • More arXiv-oids • “Extrajournaleous” articles • User-defined formats • Et cetera, et cetera

  7. User-defined Formats

  8. Image courtesy of KavehBazargan

  9. Image courtesy of KavehBazargan

  10. Image courtesy of KavehBazargan

  11. However Changes to journals or articles are not addressing the core of the problem

  12. Scholarly Articles Growth

  13. Last 12 months • 989195 new abstracts in PubMed • 525,600 minutes • i.e. a new article every half minute

  14. Datarrhoea Publicatarrh

  15. Not just the difficulty, mind, but the impossibility

  16. search: ‘diagnostic imaging’ AND ‘cardiovascular system’: 195 106 limited to: human studies, core clinical journals, Medline: 159 661

  17. Assume you read: 5 papers/hour 8 hours/day 5 days/week 50 weeks/year 10 000 papers/year.

  18. Being an expert in echocardiography Reading all existing papers: 11 years and 124 days. Meanwhile 82142 more papers added: another eight years and 78 days. Before catching up, you need to read 408049 papers devoting 40 years and 295 days to it. You would finish just in time to retire.

  19. Speed of new relevant articles appearing Speed of being able to read articles

  20. Read it all? — Signal to noise low!

  21. Top journal Filter, Distill? The fire of peer review? Or of marketing? Bottom dweller

  22. How are we filtering or choosing anyway? 35

  23. Lens, Focus

  24. Or maybe something more sophisticated?

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