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Scientific collaboration in the era of COVID-19
Alberto Pepe
and 4 collaborators
1,000+ preprints and counting
Alberto Pepe
and 2 collaborators
A preprint is the fastest and most effective way to share early research findings with the scientific community and the public.
NEW! A redesigned equation editor
Alberto Pepe
Embedding videos, music, and other rich media
Alberto Pepe
Insert -> Rich Media
. Then paste a URL.What's new? What are we working on? Authorea's Product Roadmap 2020 🗓
Alberto Pepe
and 3 collaborators
Host articles, preprints, files, data, code, more
Alberto Pepe
and 1 collaborator
DOIs are now free! One-click publishing for preprints, articles, data and code
Alberto Pepe
and 1 collaborator
Writing a response to reviewers
Alberto Pepe
You recently submitted your first manuscript for publication, and you were pleased when the editor decided to send the manuscript out for peer review. Now you have gotten the reviews back, and the editor has asked you to revise your manuscript in light of the reviewers' comments. How should you tackle this task?
Use typography to help the reviewer navigate your response:Use changes of typeface, color, and indenting to discriminate between 3 different elements: the review itself, your responses to the review, and changes that you have made to the manuscript.
Our Product Roadmap 2018-2019 🗓
Alberto Pepe
and 1 collaborator
What the future of research writing and publishing could look like
Josh Nicholson
Getting Started with Authorea🚶
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
Up-Goer Five Challenge: Explain Your Research Using the Ten Hundred Most Common Words
Josh Nicholson
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
The most powerful platform for scientific blogging 💪
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
Q&A with protocols.io
Josh Nicholson
and 4 collaborators
Authorea and the American Association for Cancer Research Partner to Streamline Research Editing & Publishing
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
Authorea and BioRxiv partner to bring preprints into 21st century
Josh Nicholson
and 4 collaborators
Turn-key research writing and publishing with Authorea for groups and teams
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
Authorea and SSRN Partner to Offer Authors a Better Way to Write and Edit Documents
Josh Nicholson
and 4 collaborators
The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv
Alberto Pepe
and 2 collaborators
The American Astronomical Society & Authorea Partner for Enhanced Collaborative Document Editing and Direct Submission
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
From Collaborative Authoring to Collaborative Reviewing
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
The Society for Neuroscience & Authorea Partner for One-Click Submissions
Josh Nicholson
The Preprint Citation Bump
Matteo Cantiello
and 2 collaborators
Why the ArXiv of the future will look like Authorea
Alberto Pepe
and 1 collaborator
Three Scientific Papers With Pets as Authors 🐾
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
Opening Citations to Open Research
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
Authorea Researcher Spotlight - Dr. Joe Bathelt
Adyam Ghebre
and 1 collaborator
Rockefeller University Press & Authorea Make Collaboration and Submission Easier For Authors Through Partnership
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
American Geophysical Union and Authorea Partner to Offer One-Click Submission of Manuscripts
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
Introducing the 21st-century preprint: HTML, versioned, citable, data-rich.
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
A New Version Control System for Research Writing
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
Without Data, Are We Just Telling Nice Stories?
Josh Nicholson
"If people had deposited raw data and full protocols at the time of publication, we wouldn’t have to go back to the original authors," says Iorns. That would make it much easier for scientists to truly check each other’s work.- The Atlantic
The Fitbit of Research Writing
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
eLife and Authorea Partner to Simplify Submission For Authors
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
Sample of Science and Authorea Partner for Better Writing Experience
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
Introducing the Editor of the Future
David Banys
and 3 collaborators
Authorea: accelerating discovery through online collaboration
Alberto Pepe
Authorea Researcher Spotlight: Achintya Rao
Josh Nicholson
Introducing Our New Editor
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
There is a chance that the Beta Editor is already active for your account. Want to turn it on? Go to your User Settings, then click Editor Preferences and if available, select your Default Editor to be Beta. Every new article you will create from the top navbar (Create New) will be in Authorea Beta.
The death of the term paper, the rise of students as authors.
Josh Nicholson
Authorea Acquires Scientific Publisher The Winnower
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
What might peer review look like in 2030? Find out at SpotOn16.
Karolina Mosiadz
Creating a domino effect: what can we all do, however small, to make research more open and reproducible?
Karolina Mosiadz
Open Sourcing Our Exporter
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
A common workflow in submitting scientific work to a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference, is to adhere to specially provided submission guidelines. To many this story is painfully familiar: your document must satisfy a long enumeration of requirements, including an official citation style, font face, margin and font sizes, single- or multi-column, frontmatter arrangements, ... The list goes on.
The work on styling a finished document alone is known to take anywhere from a day to a week, irrespective of which tool you used - Word and LaTeX users alike had to sweat it out. What makes this situation a nightmare rather than an annoyance, however, is that more often than not a manuscript is rejected and needs to be resubmitted to a different venue, where this tedious procedure needs to be repeated from scratch. And that process can repeat for several iterations. As academics are urged to publish their work as quickly and often as possible, this type of friction accumulates.
Essay Contest: How has social media enhanced your research?
Alberto Pepe
The Value of Ignorance in Science
Lucy Chen
and 4 collaborators
Reinventing Peer Review
Josh Nicholson
Publish and Prosper: Reddit AMA with Authorea Co-Founder and CEO, Alberto Pepe
Adyam Ghebre
and 2 collaborators
Do the right thing: 11 Courageous Retractions
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
6 Publisher Policies Antithetical to Research
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
65 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled.
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
The web was built specifically to share research papers amongst scientists. Despite this being the first goal of the modern web, most research is still published behind a paywall. We have recently highlighted famous math papers that reside behind a paywall as well as ten papers that have achieved a near rockstar status in research and the public. Here we systematically look at the top one hundred cited papers of all time and find that 65% of these papers are not open. Stated another way, the world’s most important research is inaccessible from the majority of the world.
A few facts about the top 100 cited papers:
The weighted average of all the paywalls is: $32.33, rounding to the nearest cent.
There are 1, 088, 779 citations of the Open Access articles, so, if they cost the same on average as the Paywalled articles and were paid for individually, they would cost a total of: $35, 199, 108.44–that’s 14 Bugatti Veyrons, or enough to buy everyone in New York City a Starbucks Tall coffee and chocolate chip cookie. In comparison, the total amount for the paywalled articles, assuming everyone bought the paywalled articles individually, is $54, 722, 252.80.
That’s 23 Bugatti Veyrons, or enough to buy everyone in New York City a footlong from Subway.
Although 65% of the most cited papers are paywalled, only 61% of those paper’s citations are from paywalled journals. Thus the open access articles in this list are, on average, cited more than the paywalled ones.
Paywalling the laws of the universe.
Michaeljdklein
and 1 collaborator
Pythagoras’ Theorem | a2 + b2 = c2 | Pythagoras, 530 BC | |
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Logarithms | logxy = logx + logy | John Napier, 1610 | |
Calculus | $\frac{\mathrm{d} f}{\mathrm{d} t} = \lim_{h \to 0} \frac{f(t~+~h)~-~f(t)}{h}$ | Newton, 1668 | |
Law of Gravity | $F = G \frac{m_1 m_2}{r^2}$ | Newton, 1687 | |
The Square Root of Minus One | i2 = −1 | Euler, 1750 | |
Euler’s Formula for Polyhedra | V − E + F = 2 | Euler, 1751 | |
Normal Distribution | $\psi(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2 \pi \rho}} e^\frac{(x~-~\mu)^2}{2~\rho^2}$ | C. F. Gauss, 1810 | |
Wave Equation | $\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial t^2} = c^2 \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2}$ | J. D‘Ambert, 1746 | |
Fourier Transform | f(ω)=∫−∞∞f(x)e−2 π i x ωdx | J. Fourier, 1822 | |
Navier-Stokes Equation | $\rho \left ( \frac{\partial \mathbf{v}}{\partial t} + \mathbf{v} \cdot \nabla \mathbf{v} \right ) = - \nabla p + \nabla \cdot T + f$ | C. Navier, G. Stokes, 1845 | |
Maxwell’s Equations | ∇ ⋅ E = 0 | J. C. Maxwell, 1865 | |
$\nabla \times E = - \frac{1}{e} \frac{\partial H}{\partial t}$ | |||
∇ ⋅ H = 0 | |||
$\nabla \times H = \frac{1}{e} \frac{\partial E}{\partial t}$ | |||
Second Law of Thermodynamics | dS ≥ 0 | L. Boltzmann, 1874 | PAYWALL |
Relativity | E = mc2 | Einstein, 1905 | PAYWALL |
Schrödinger’s Equation | $\mathrm{i} \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \psi = H \psi$ | E. Schrödinger, 1927 | PAYWALL |
Information Theory | H = −∑p(x)logp(x) | C. Shannon, 1949 | PAYWALL |
Chaos Theory | xt + 1 = k xt(1 − xt) | Robert May, 1975 | PAYWALL |
Black-Scholes Equation | $\frac{1}{2} \sigma^2 S^2 \frac{\partial^2 V}{\partial S^2} + r S \frac{\partial V}{\partial S} + \frac{\partial V}{\partial t} - r V = 0$ | F. Black, M. Scholes, 1990 | PAYWALL |
Euler’s Transformation | $\sum_{n = 0}^\infty (-1)^n a_n = \sum_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^n \frac{\Delta^n a_0}{2^{n+1}}$ | Euler, 1755 | PAYWALL |
Russell’s Paradox | Let R = {x ∣ x ∉ x}, then R ∈ R ⇔ R ∉ R | Russell, 1902 | |
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem | G(x):=¬Prov(sub(x, x)) ⇒ PA ⊢ G(⌜G⌝) ↔ ¬Prov(⌜G(⌜G⌝)⌝) | Gödel, 1931 |
Sweet, Sweet Irony: 7 Papers That Should be Open Access But Aren't
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
10 Famous Articles Still Behind a Paywall
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
Interactive and discoverable preprints
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
9th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival x Authorea
Lucy Chen
and 2 collaborators
"The Imagine Science Film Festival is a conversation between scientists, filmmakers, and artists to explore the latest scientific advances and theories in unique and thought-provoking ways." - Nate Dorr, Director of Programming
Research Olympics
Josh Nicholson
and 2 collaborators
8,249 more reasons to use Authorea
Josh Nicholson
Open Science Meetup with Stuart Firestein
Adyam Ghebre
and 1 collaborator
Academics Turned Founders: Andrew Preston, Publons
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
What's Open Access Good For? Absolutely everything!
Josh Nicholson
and 5 collaborators
Scholarly Publishing: Unnecessarily Slow in the Modern Era.
Josh Nicholson
and 3 collaborators
What Really Happened: Fleming's Penicillin Discovery
Lucy Chen
What Really Happened: Darwin's Finches
Lucy Chen
Dear Social Media, Get DNA Chirality *Right*
Lucy Chen
and 1 collaborator
What Really Happened: Benjamin Franklin's Kite Experiment
Lucy Chen
All great truths begin as blasphemies: In Defense of "Silly" Research
Josh Nicholson
and 1 collaborator
The Decline of Accuracy in Science Communication: Who is to Blame?
Lucy Chen
and 1 collaborator
Authorea User Spotlight: Jenna Morgan Lang
Lucy Chen
and 2 collaborators
Nope! 8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize
Josh Nicholson
Interdisciplinarity: Working Together Takes Work
Lucy Chen
A big challenge, but one that I enjoy, is that the important—many of the most societally relevant—problems can no longer be just solved with physics like for the transistor or biology like the for Polio vaccine. It is increasingly the case that we need to bring different groups of people together from very different disciplines to partner and tackle important problems. It is like the analogy that we can no longer act like golf or tennis players—we have to now think in terms of baseball or football. A baseball team will not be successful if it is full of shortstops.
Data Visualization: Create Powerful Infographics
Lucy Chen
and 1 collaborator
7 Crazy Things You Didn't Know About DNA
Lucy Chen
Secure Research Funding With Visuals
Lucy Chen
and 1 collaborator
Essay Contest: How has social media enhanced your research?
Josh Nicholson
and 6 collaborators
Authorea Spotlight: Viputheshwar Sitaraman (Draw Science)
Lucy Chen
Data Visualization: Tools for Creating Infographics
Lucy Chen
When the Obstacle is the Course: Job Security in Academia
Lucy Chen
This post is part of the series called Obstacles in Academia, which aims to highlight the many challenges young scientists face today.