The transmission of new scientific ideas and knowledge is needlessly slow:
| Flow slower | Solution |
|---|---|
| Journal subscription fees | Open access mandates |
| Competition to be first-to-publish motivates secrecy | Open Science mandates |
| Jargon | Increase science communication; science blogging |
| Pressure to publish high quantity means no time for learning from other areas | Reform of incentives in academia |
| Inefficient format of journal articles (e.g. prose) | Evidence charts, ? |
| Long lag time until things are published | Peer review post publication, not pre publication |
| Difficulty publishing fragmentary criticisms | Open peer review; incentivize post-publication commenting |
| Information contained in peer reviewers’ reviews is never published | Open peer review or publication of (possibly anonymous) reviews; incentivize online post-publication commenting |
| Difficulty publishing non-replications | Open Science |
UPDATE: Daniel Mietchen, in the true spirit of open science, has put up an editable version of this very incomplete table.
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I forgot to include data-sharing.
I would like to set up an editable version of that but couldn’t find your licensing information. Thanks for any pointers.
Sorry Daniel, I was actually thinking it’s kind of embarassing I haven’t put up licensing info anywhere, as that’s rather antithetical with open science! Let’s call this post CC Zero and I’ll think about what to adopt for the rest of the blog. An editable version would be great! I know I’ve missed some things, many of which you could fill in
Thanks. I put it up at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Obstacles_to_efficient_communication_of_scientific_research .