Assigned Reading (Participation Evaluation)

1. Critical evaluation of peer review

Please review the following two articles (read and try to understand them). You will be asked questions in class. This will then lead to a discussion. Due date: 21-Jan-2014.

• How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science by Randy Schekman. The popular opinion article in the guardian. [PDF]
• Cole, Cole and Simon (1981) Chance and consensus in peer review. Science, 214:p881 [PDF]

2. Evaluating sources of literature

Please review the following two articles (read and understand). You will be asked to answer questions in class.

Due Date: 4-Feb-2014.

• A catalogue of criteria to assess information by in literature review. Hjorland (2012) J. Info. Sci. DOI: 10.1177/0165551512439178
• A critique of journal impact factors Rossner et al. (2007) Show me the data. J. Cell Biol. 179:1091