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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Academia.edu, San Francisco, CA Academia.edu is trying to improve the way that scientific publishing works. Here is the current way it works. A scientist does some experiments and writes up a paper. He sends it to a journal who sends it out
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
I don't know the details here but I'm very sorry for the mistake here - somehow this slipped through the cracks. We will try to do better.
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Academia.edu, San Francisco, CA Academia.edu is trying to improve the way that scientific publishing works. Here is the current way it works. A scientist does some experiments and writes up a paper. He sends it to a journal who sends it out
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Elon Musk on Being Acquainted with Problems(richardprice.io)
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
San Francisco, CA Academia.edu is trying to improve the way that academic publishing works. Here is the current way it works. A scientist does some experiments and writes up a paper. He sends it to a journal who sends it out to two or three
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Peer Review Needs To Expand So That More Scientists Are Reviewing Papers(theguardian.com)
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The Story Behind a Radical New Idea: A Social Network for Academia(inc.com)
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
San Francisco, CA Many problems and opportunities facing humanity require science-based solutions: - Diseases: Curing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cancer, HIV, Malaria - Energy: We need to to find cheap and clean sources of energy
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Academia.edu, The Social Networking Platform For Researchers, Raises $11 Million(techcrunch.com)
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. 4.1m academics have joined Academia.edu, and over 300k join each
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
San Francisco, CA. Full time. Academia.edu is a social platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. 3.7m academics have joined Academia.edu, and over 300k join each
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Agreed. There are many aspects to changing the scientific ecosystem in such a way that sharing data-sets is the default, not the exception. My sense is that the most critical aspect here is the incentives aspect. I think if sharing data-set
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
If your papers are already on Academia.edu, and that is where you share your research output, it's useful to be able to share your data-sets and code too. Of course that doesn't prevent you from uploading data to other places on the web, su
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
You're right to focus on rewards. The rewards have to be there for academics to share their data-sets and code. The feedback loop needs to be closed, so that if you share your data, and that data has an impact, that impact is reflected back
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Do you mean having a reputation system on Wikipedia, or the ability to put data-sets on Wikipedia?
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Currently 75% of the world's scientific data isn't shared. http://codata2012.tw/news/75-of-research-data-is-never-made-... The main reason for that is that there is an established reputation system for papers, namely journals, but there i
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by RichardPrice 13y ago
Another dimension to sharing data-sets along with papers is that papers with data-sets attached get more citations http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.... Readers prefer papers with data-sets attached to them, beca
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Academia.edu Lets Researchers Share Their Raw Data(techcrunch.com)
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Buttonizing social interactions(richardprice.io)
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
Authorea is a great project. I love the idea of helping academics write their papers natively for the web. Good luck Nate and Alberto!
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
You're right that the cost isn't the main issue. It shouldn't be disregarded though: with 2 million articles published a year, a $2,000 cost per article means $4 billion a year that could be spent on more research. To put that in context, t
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
I believe that the two problems you mention, about peer review taking so long, and mathematicians not generally commenting much online, can be solved with reputation metrics. The reason scientists don't blog a lot, or comment on blogs, is t
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
With the time-lag, you have to take into account the rejection rate. Most articles don't get into their first choice journal, and perhaps get into their second or third choice. You can't parallel submit, meaning that the time-lag between fi
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
Open access journals, based on authors paying $1,000-$3,000 to publish a paper, are going to be a temporary stepping stone on the way to the decline of the journal. We need new reputation metrics to encourage the sharing of data-sets, video
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
Yes, that's true. But authors only started including their inbound citation counts on their job applications in the last few years. I think the main reason for this is that Google Scholar's citation metrics were free and openly accessible,
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
You're right that the central challenge here is helping academics evaluate each other's work without relying so heavily on journal titles, closed access journals or otherwise. There is some movement here. Increasingly hiring committees are
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
Anyone can read the entire article in the browser on Academia.edu without logging in or registering. The paper is displayed using HTML5 in the browser, and there is no need to register to read the full text of the article. We require people
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Academia.edu’s Richard Price Is A Founder On A Mission [video](techcrunch.com)
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
You don't have to be a member of a research institution. On the signup page, there is a checkbox to sign up as an independent researcher. See this screenshot http://cl.ly/image/1k2L0u1J1D3L
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by RichardPrice 14y ago
It's a good question. I expect that the Office of Science and Technology is working on it to some extent, but I am not aware of how deep their efforts are.

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