Jens Peter Andersen

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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Illustration of the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. An academic, say Alice, first applies for early-career funding in 2015. She received early-career funding, and goes on to reapply for later-career funding in 2020. According to the Matthew effect, the chances of Alice receiving later-career funding is higher when she received early-career funding. Alice showed a high Mean Field Citation Rate (MFCR) before receiving her early-career funding, and similarly a high MFCR in between the early-career and later-career applications. According to the early-career setback effect, had she instead not received funding, her "Between" MFCR would have been higher. We not only study the "Between" MFCR, we also study the MFCR after the early-career application ("Post (early)") and after the later-career application ("Post (later)").

📢 New reviewed preprint, published by @elife.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7554/eLif.... We study two effects in science funding across 14 different funding programmes from 6 research funders across Europe and North America: (1) The Matthew effect; and (2) and the early-career setback effect.

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Is anyone else getting a peculiar email about retracting articles from "Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences"?

- There are a lot of myths and anecdotal knowledge out there - we need to talk more about what we want to use GenAI for; including why, how, and when.

- What this is, varies by field, and especially how you produce new knowledge. What is fine in one field may not be in another - guidelines and policies need to reflect or accomodate this.

- Researchers have a pretty good idea about what they consider good and bad research practice, and tools like GenAI are used in accordance with recommendations about good, ethical practice.

We identified three main perceptions of the role of GenAI in research, and a number of recommendations for writing policies about GenAI for academic research. Some of the most important takeaways here are:

My colleagues and I have been sharing blogs and news about a survey we did on how researchers use generative AI - that study is now published and openly available here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

Yup

Added context, since polls can only be very short:
It seems like a somewhat standard practice now, that editors create reviewer accounts without consent or contact, as a service, so the potential reviewer doesn't have to do it themself. It used to be the opposite. #peerreview #reviewer2

Journal editors create reviewer accounts automatically, with username and password, without prior consent. What are your thoughts on this?

1️⃣ It's a great service, it saves me some hassle.
2️⃣ I don't really care.
3️⃣ It feels icky and predatory.

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If AI is an accelerator, will research need speed limits? - Research Professional News Junior researchers’ enthusiasm for technology needs careful guidance, say Jens Peter Andersen and Serge Horbach

Young researchers have embraced AI as an accelerator of their work. If that is to help science rather than damage it, they need careful guidance, say Jens Peter Andersen @ipoga.bsky.social and Serge Horbach. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

New paper out with @benzpierre.bsky.social @kristofferkropp.bsky.social and Trine Cosmus Nobel in a special issue on Mapping relational structures in culture

it's amazing to have my first post in this social media to share this great paper we just published, lead by @caropradier.bsky.social on topics, local circuits and gender inequality in Latin America.

Full transparency: the open call is open to all applicants, and there are no guarantees for a job offer. I am offering to co-develop an application that addresses disruption in science, with plenty of room for personalising it.
Granted applications are fully funded three-year projects.

a woman says you are being disruptive ALT: a woman says you are being disruptive

What is disruption in science?

I am looking for a prospective PhD student to study disruption theoretically, qualitatively and quantitatively at Aarhus University.

If you are interested in developing your own project under our open call, in collaboration with me, please get in touch.

Updated -largely no exhaustive- list : go.bsky.app/R8RNJgc
Please reply to be added.

Hi Florian, great list, I’d love to be added

With all the new influx of users, I’d love to see a community around #sciencepolicy #scipol #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience. Please share if you want to be part of it, use the tags to find others, or just say hi 👋

Current deadline is February 1st, so perhaps only relevant for those that already have a project description and want to expand where they apply :) for the fall deadline, feel free to get in touch for further information

Interested in writing a PhD in the broad area of “research on research” (responsible research, research integrity, bibliometrics, scientometrics, science funding, research policy, etc.)? We (@cfa_res_pol) have fully funded positions every 6 months: bss.au.dk/en/research/...

The dot in question:

Photo of text reading: “Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by”

The Christian implications of God creating mankind and our Earth, without a mention of other worlds or life in the vastness of the Universe is historically meaningful, but to me, philosophically sorrowful. And as Carl Sagan (in Pale Blue Dot) goes on to argue, grounds for much chauvinism.

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This Danish LinkedIn trend (unintentionally) maintains traditional gender bias | Radboud University Utofts' Research on motherhood on social media encourages reflection on the broader implications of societal expectations on new mothers. It emphasises the collective effort needed to challenge tradit...

A little teaser of my forthcoming paper - co-authored with a former Aarhus University student, Freja 🤞🤓 Hope it will be published early next year. www.ru.nl/en/research/...

This was the tipping point for me - account created on pubpeer and comment submitted.

The Oligopoly’s Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Pro... Abstract. This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sa...

Highly interesting study from the ScholCommLab on how much funding is spent on APCs at the Big 5 journal publishers. It’s a lot, it mostly goes to Springer-Nature and especially Scientific Reports and Nature Communications: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Tomorrow at the Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University, we are delighted to host Ophelia Deroy and Bahador Bahrami.

Two talks, starting at 11 am. You can even join online.

See the link below for talk abstracts & online participation:

interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

I currently have two PhD opportunities available. One is on early EF dev in children born preterm, the other is on the association between attention and early EF dev. Please share or get in touch if interested :-)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Just published this preprint with Tony Ross-Hellauer and Serge Horbach on the special "contributed" article type in PNAS and it's utilisation by NAS members. Open for comments, if anyone has thoughts: osf.io/preprints/so...