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Newswise: PeerRef Joins Plan P Community as a Trusted Partner in Delivering Rapid Peer Review of Preprints, Increasing the Speed and Rigor of Emerging Scientific Research
Released: 20-Apr-2022 6:05 AM EDT
PeerRef Joins Plan P Community as a Trusted Partner in Delivering Rapid Peer Review of Preprints, Increasing the Speed and Rigor of Emerging Scientific Research
JMIR Publications

Plan P is offering institutional, departmental, and individual memberships to academic institutions, departments, funders, and individual researchers that enable them to receive a rapid peer-review of a preprint from a Plan P partner journal or from an independent peer-review service like PeerRef. As multisided platform and matchmaker sitting between preprint servers, peer-review services, and journals, Plan P offers a true transformation to open access and open science, while supporting traditional journals and journal publication pathways. For publishers, Plan P is providing tools to supplement traditional manuscript submission workflows with an editorial prospecting platform.

     
Newswise: University of California Libraries and JMIR Publications Renew Multi-Payer Open Access Agreement
Released: 12-Apr-2022 12:05 PM EDT
University of California Libraries and JMIR Publications Renew Multi-Payer Open Access Agreement
JMIR Publications

We are very excited by the early promise of this project, which offers unlimited peer review of preprints published by authors of enrolled institutions. We look forward to continuing our conversations with the University of California and all of our partners in developing a program that serves the research community’s needs.

   
Released: 8-Apr-2022 2:15 PM EDT
Pre2Pub—Tracking the Path From Preprint to Journal Article: Algorithm Development and Validation
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Background: The current COVID-19 crisis underscores the importance of preprints, as they allow for rapid communication of research results without delay in review. To fully integrate this type of publication into library information ...

Released: 8-Apr-2022 1:10 PM EDT
True or false: studying work practices of professional fact-checkers
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Online misinformation has developed into a critical societal threat that can lead to disastrous societal consequences. Researchers at NYU Tandon and NYU Abu Dhabi interviewed professional fact-checkers from 19 countries to gather information about the fact-checking profession, fact-checking processes and methods, the use of computation tools for fact-checking, and challenges and barriers to fact-checking.  The study, "True or False: Studying the Work Practices of Professional Fact-Checkers," found that most of the fact-checkers felt they have a social responsibility of correcting harmful information to provide “a service to the public,” emphasizing that they want the outcome of their work to both educate and inform the public. Some fact-checkers mentioned that they hope to contribute to an information ecosystem providing a “balanced battlefield” for the discussion of an issue, particularly during elections.

Newswise: JMIR Publications Announces Open Access Agreement with Jisc
Released: 7-Apr-2022 9:50 AM EDT
JMIR Publications Announces Open Access Agreement with Jisc
JMIR Publications

Adrian Stanley, General Manager at JMIR Publications, said: “We’re delighted to partner with an organization as innovative and respected as Jisc. This is an exciting opportunity to protect diversity in the publishing landscape and to offer members a simple path to OA publishing in high-impact journals.”

   
Newswise: New Podcast Series to Confront COVID-19 Disinformation
Released: 31-Mar-2022 9:50 AM EDT
New Podcast Series to Confront COVID-19 Disinformation
George Washington University

The four-part series, hosted by award-winning journalist and GW Professor Frank Sesno, will examine how falsehoods about COVID-19 are spread and what can be done to combat misinformation

   
Released: 29-Mar-2022 9:00 AM EDT
Endocrine Society to launch JCEM Case Reports journal
Endocrine Society

The Endocrine Society announced it will launch a new open access, online-only journal featuring reports on clinical cases and clinical problem solving from across the field of endocrinology.

Newswise: MBoC to offer authors an open access option
Released: 28-Mar-2022 10:30 AM EDT
MBoC to offer authors an open access option
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) now offers authors the option of having their Article or Brief Report made open access immediately upon publication. The new option offers greater flexibility to authors, many of who are required by their funders to make their work open access.

   
Released: 25-Mar-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Yes, microplastics have been found in human blood
Newswise

An article says that microplastics have been found in human blood for the first time. We rate this claim as true, although more studies are needed to determine if these substances in humans are associated with a public health risk.

Released: 24-Mar-2022 9:00 AM EDT
MBoC introduces Preprint Highlights to recognize selected papers
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) has begun publishing MBoC Preprint Highlights, a new type of editorial content that provides brief summaries and structured recognition of selected preprints. This effort leverages the expertise of MBoC and the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) to promote the curation of the preprint literature for the benefit of the scientific community.

Newswise: The Permanente Federation Announces New Editor-in-Chief of The Permanente Journal
Released: 22-Mar-2022 8:40 AM EDT
The Permanente Federation Announces New Editor-in-Chief of The Permanente Journal
The Permanente Federation

G. Richard Holt, MD, assumes leadership of The Permanente Journal, with a renewed focus on health care delivery science, value-based and high-value care, and applied clinical research.

Released: 17-Mar-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Penn Nursing Researchers Co-Edit Special Journal Issue About Social Determinants of Health
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) faculty J. Margo Brooks Carthon, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Adriana Perez, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, are guest editors of the April 2022 special edition of the journal Research in Nursing & Health. The Issue “Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health” is the first of its kind published by a nursing research journal.

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Released: 14-Mar-2022 11:40 AM EDT
Pat Mitchell: A ‘dangerous woman’
University of Georgia

This story is part of a series, called Georgia Groundbreakers, that celebrates innovative and visionary faculty, students, alumni and leaders throughout the history of the University of Georgia – and their profound, enduring impact on our state, our nation and the world.

Newswise: MRS Names Ramamoorthy Ramesh New Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Research
Released: 11-Mar-2022 10:45 AM EST
MRS Names Ramamoorthy Ramesh New Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Research
Materials Research Society (MRS)

MRS is pleased to announce the appointment of Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as the next Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Research.

   
Released: 10-Mar-2022 11:05 AM EST
Wolters Kluwer Partners with Women’s Dermatologic Society to Publish International Journal of Women’s Dermatology
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Wolters Kluwer, Health announced today that it will publish International Journal of Women’s Dermatology (IJWD) under its Lippincott open access portfolio as part of its new partnership with the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS).

Released: 3-Mar-2022 3:30 PM EST
Endocrine Society streamlines name change policy for journal authors
Endocrine Society

The Endocrine Society has introduced a policy to make it simpler for authors of articles published in its peer-reviewed journals to update their names following a name change.

Released: 24-Feb-2022 1:55 PM EST
Expert sources for your Ukraine-Russia conflict stories
Newswise

Expert sources for your Ukraine-Russia conflict stories

Released: 23-Feb-2022 8:05 PM EST
UCI’s Forum for the Academy and the Public brings together multidisciplinary scholars for two-day symposium on growing global impact of People’s Republic of China
University of California, Irvine

EVENT:  UCI’s Forum for the Academy and the Public will host a two-day symposium on “Global China in an Anxious Age.” More than 30 speakers from a variety of academic and non-academic backgrounds (including law, humanities, glaciology, pharmacology, journalism, tech, public policy and more) will discuss the complicated relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the wider global order.

Released: 21-Feb-2022 12:30 PM EST
A News Media Outlet’s Perceived Credibility Can Affect How Gun Violence Headlines Are Received
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The more credible that people perceive a news source to be the more they will believe a headline on a story they publish about gun violence, according to researchers at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers.

Released: 16-Feb-2022 2:55 PM EST
Fact checks, not false tags, counter COVID-19 misinformation
Cornell University

New Cornell University research finds journalistic fact checks are a more effective counter to COVID-19 misinformation than the false news tags commonly used by social media outlets.

Released: 15-Feb-2022 1:05 PM EST
Former NYS Court of Appeals Judge available for Palin v. New York Times dismissal decision
Albany Law School

Former New York State Court of Appeals Associate Judge Leslie Stein is available to speak about the recent procedural developments in Sarah Palin's defamation suit against New York Times.

Released: 9-Feb-2022 4:05 PM EST
The inference that a 40 percent increase in the death rate of Americans 18 to 64 is caused by vaccines is baseless
Newswise

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk suggested that COVID-19 vaccines are contributing to higher mortality rates in the U.S. over the last few years.

Released: 9-Feb-2022 11:20 AM EST
Association for Molecular Pathology and The American Society for Investigative Pathology Announce New Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
Association for Molecular Pathology

The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, molecular diagnostics professional society, today announced the appointment of Ronald M. Przygodzki, MD as the incoming Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD). Barbara Zehnbauer, PhD, who has served with distinction as Editor-in-Chief since January 2015, will retire from the position effective March 1, 2022.

Released: 7-Feb-2022 4:20 PM EST
Pacira’s Lawsuit Against Anesthesiology Dismissed
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is gratified that the lawsuit filed against ASA, the editor-in-chief of Anesthesiology – the official peer-reviewed journal of ASA – and 11 contributing authors by Pacira Biosciences Inc., has been dismissed by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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Released: 27-Jan-2022 3:35 PM EST
Trump’s Tweets: Telling Truth From Fiction From the Words He Used
Association for Psychological Science

Sometimes the words we choose say more than we intend. New research on a fact-checked collection of tweets from former president Donald Trump uncovered telltale word choices when he was being deliberately misleading.

Released: 26-Jan-2022 5:10 PM EST
American Academy of Ophthalmology Appoints Russell N. Van Gelder, MD, PhD, as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal, Ophthalmology
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

The American Academy of Ophthalmology today announced the appointment of Russell N. Van Gelder, MD, PhD, as Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal, Ophthalmology, the most widely read clinical publication within the medical specialty of ophthalmology.

Released: 26-Jan-2022 5:05 PM EST
Free Speech Center at MTSU celebrates Rascals’ Felix Cavaliere Feb. 23 with award, free concert
Middle Tennessee State University

The Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University will present Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals with its Free Speech in Music Award Wednesday, Feb. 23, in Tucker Theatre on campus in a free public evening of music and celebration.

Released: 25-Jan-2022 12:20 PM EST
What drives vaccine hesitancy?
University of Delaware

University of Delaware researchers have looked at how targeted and strategic messaging can cut through the confusion and misinformation about vaccines. The professors and graduate students investigated how age, education and attitudes influence behavior and affect public health during the pandemic.

   
Released: 21-Jan-2022 3:05 PM EST
CDC Director was referring to vaccinated people when she mentioned 75% of COVID deaths were among those with at least four comorbidities
Newswise

Welensky did not say 75% percent of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. had at least four comorbidities. The shared social media posts imply that deaths from COVID-19 are being over-counted. We find this claim to be misleading, having taken Walensky's interview out of context. It is clear from watching the full clip, Dr. Welensky was referring to the percentage of fully vaccinated people who died from COVID-19.

Released: 20-Dec-2021 4:20 PM EST
To say "climate change applies to any change in the weather" is false
Newswise

"Climate change applies to any change in the weather. If it rains, it's climate change, if there is a storm, it's climate change. Record snowfall? Climate change," says a widely shared tweet. We find this claim as false. Weather and climate are two different things.

Released: 15-Dec-2021 4:45 PM EST
The Latest Mental Health Research and Feature News in the Mental Health Channel on Newswise
Newswise

The Latest Mental Health Research and Feature News in the Mental Health Channel on Newswise

       
Released: 15-Dec-2021 1:05 PM EST
NYU researchers secure $200,000 grant to bring novel AI-tool to support under-resourced newsrooms across the U.S.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Mona Sloane, faculty at NYU Tandon and Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible AI (R/AI), and Hilke Schellmann, professor of journalism at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, have been awarded $200,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to bring an innovative AI tool to under-resourced newsrooms to significantly scale up their investigative capacity and democratize access to FOIA records.

Newswise: Joanna Chikwe Is Named Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Released: 13-Dec-2021 3:30 PM EST
Joanna Chikwe Is Named Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has appointed Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and its soon-to-be-launched open access journal, Annals Short Reports. She will step into this role on January 1, 2022.

Released: 10-Dec-2021 4:05 PM EST
Headlines about a "concerning" asteroid that will "skim" Earth on Saturday are not giving us an accurate picture
Newswise

"NASA says huge, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will break into Earth's orbit next week" reads a headline from The Hill posted on December 1st. "ROCKY HORROR: Giant asteroid will skim Earth’s orbit tomorrow in hair-raising near miss" reads another headline posted on December 9th in The Sun (UK). These are some of the many headlines describing 4660 Nereus, an asteroid that is around 1,083-feet long (330-meter), will come within 2.4 million miles (3.9 million km) of Earth, still about 10 times farther away than the moon.

Released: 3-Dec-2021 3:45 PM EST
Claim that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are global superspreaders of the new omicron variant is misleading
Newswise

Kim Iversen, a popular political talk show host with over 27K followers on Twitter, claimed that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are global superspreaders of the new omicron variant. “I can’t believe that after fully vaccinated travelers have been found to be the global spreaders of the omicron variant, we’re STILL talking about forcing people into being vaccinated,” she wrote on Twitter. We find this claim to be misleading. There is very little data on how the new variant is being spread.

30-Nov-2021 2:45 PM EST
COVID-19 pandemic puts spotlight on science misinformation ‘triggers’
University of Sydney

Pandemic highlights existing issues in our health information ecosystem.

   
Released: 29-Nov-2021 2:05 PM EST
The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Online Only in 2022
Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior

Beginning in January 2022, the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior will become an online journal.

   
Released: 29-Nov-2021 12:00 PM EST
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Initiates Call for Entries for 2022 Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence Awards
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) invites journalists and print, online and broadcast news outlets to submit content to be considered for the 2022 Media Orthopaedic Reporting Excellence (MORE) Awards.

   
Released: 23-Nov-2021 11:00 AM EST
Open access content from Rockefeller University Press now available on ResearchGate
The Rockefeller University Press

ResearchGate and Rockefeller University Press (RUP) today announced the completion of the first phase of a content syndication pilot partnership. ResearchGate users can now find full-text Immediate OA articles and a subset of five years of archival content published in the Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and Journal of General Physiology (JGP) between May 2016 and April 2021 on the network — approximately 2,800 articles in total.

Released: 10-Nov-2021 1:05 PM EST
Conflicting Health Information Compromises Attention and Emotional Responses
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The 24-hour news cycle and social media bombardment often resulting in conflicting messages about health issues might be making it harder than ever for people to make critical decisions, according to a Rutgers-led study.

Released: 10-Nov-2021 12:40 PM EST
Viral true tweets spread just as far as viral untrue tweets
Cornell University

Viral, true tweets spread just as far, wide and deep as viral untrue tweets, according to new research from Cornell University that upends the prevailing assumption that untruths on Twitter move faster.

Released: 9-Nov-2021 8:55 AM EST
Political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal information and spread misleading information
University of Washington

University of Washington researchers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021. Political ads used multiple tactics that concerned the researchers, including posing as a poll to collect people’s personal information or having headlines that might affect web surfers’ views of candidates.

Released: 3-Nov-2021 1:45 PM EDT
Pictures, videos can send viewers down a ‘rabbit hole’
Cornell University

They found that three factors – similarity, repetition and consecutiveness – drove the rabbit hole effect. When these three characteristics of media consumption are combined, they found, consumers become immersed in the category and expect to derive continued enjoyment from similar media.

Released: 28-Oct-2021 8:50 AM EDT
Gender gap revealed in academic journal submissions during first COVID-19 wave
Elsevier

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, a study of 2,329 academic journals has found that fewer manuscripts were submitted by women than by men, with this gender gap being especially prominent in the medical field and for women in earlier stages of their careers.

Newswise: New study shows intimidation and military rhetoric in the media during the pandemic make people pessimistic
Released: 25-Oct-2021 9:00 AM EDT
New study shows intimidation and military rhetoric in the media during the pandemic make people pessimistic
Scientific Project Lomonosov

When talking about COVID-19, television, newspapers, magazines, and social media turn to battle metaphors that make the fight against the pandemic feel like a war. Also, the coronavirus is often discussed in an excessively alarming and threatening tone. This problem is so acute that there is even the term for that — infodemia. It describes the panic in the media and social networks. A linguist of RUDN University studied how such a language affects the notions of people regarding COVID-19.



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