Not if you're not the reviewer ON-RECORD. Faculty bosses farming out
aspects of their jobs (grant writing, manuscript and grant reviewing,
etc.) is causing a LOT of problems - and this would be one of them in
such a system: ie: many faculty pass out things they ostensibly review
to their "employees" (students and postdocs). Thus, in a system as
described in the petition, you wouldn't be getting those review credits.
Check out this article:
http://www.miller-mccune.com/science/the-real-science-gap-16191/
Additionally, here is a bunch of related info to check out:
http://grants.nih.gov/training/Reed_Letter.pdf
This PDF is available free if you register with your email address - I
have a copy if you need it - VERY good for postdocs!!! :
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309069963
http://www.amacad.org/arisefolder/ariseReport.pdf
http://www.prouaw.org/home/home.php
http://www.alligator.org/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article_d0dd15d4-79c1-11df-b45c-001cc4c002e0.html
Reshuffling Graduate Education (Science 31 July 2009: Vol. 325. no.
5940, pp. 528 - 530)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5940/528
UNPAID INTERNSHIP REGULATIONS: (some abuse of "trainees" even violates
labor laws):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/fair-unpaid-internships-u_n_547543.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=841075
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
NSF Workshop on the Postdoc Experience Calls for "Culture Change"
(SCIENCE Careers: By Beryl Lieff Benderly, December 03, 2004)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/3360/nsf_workshop_on_the_postdoc_experience_calls_for_culture_change
NSF, NIH Emphasize the Importance of Mentoring (24 AUGUST 2007 VOL 317
SCIENCE)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5841/1016b
NSF Wants PIs to Mentor Their Postdocs (11 AUGUST 2006 VOL 313 SCIENCE)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/313/5788/748b?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=NSF+Wants+Pls+To+Mentor+Their+Postdocs&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
U.S. POSTDOCS: Report Urges Better Treatment, Status (Science 15
September 2000: Vol. 289. no. 5486, pp. 1854 - 1855)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_09_15/noDOI.6638362310300922794
The Evolution of Postdocs (8 OCTOBER 2004 VOL 306 SCIENCE)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5694/232
Tenure: Expiration Time (Science 18 September 2009: Vol. 325. no. 5947,
p. 1496)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5947/1496-b
Tenure: Where to draw the line (Science 18 September 2009: Vol. 325. no.
5947, p. 1496)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5947/1496-a
Tenure and the Future of the University (Science 29 May 2009: Vol. 324.
no. 5931, pp. 1147 - 1148)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/324/5931/1147
An interesting article about the structure and "ecology" of science in
America:
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/orgecosci/
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/orgecosci/org-eco.pdf
Congressional Hearing Scheduled on U Cal Postdoc Union Negotiation
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2010/04/congressional-h.html
Modest Advice for Grad Students
http://nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur/ArticlesPDFs/ModestAdviceGradStudents.pdf
Other advice for graduate students:
http://www.biol.ttu.edu/Biology%20Shared%20Files/On%20Graduate%20Studies%20in%20Biological%20Science.pdf
SCIENCE VOL 308 29 APRIL 2005
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/3570/not_your_father_s_postdoc
Careers and Rewards in Bio Sciences: The disconnect between scientific
progress and career progression
http://www.ascb.org/newsfiles/careers_rewards.pdf
ARISE report (American Academy of Arts and Sciences):
http://www.amacad.org/news/newArise.aspx
http://www.amacad.org/arisefolder/ariseReport.pdf
Postdocs Unionize (SCIENCE VOL 321 11 JULY 2008)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol321/issue5886/s-scope.dtl#321/5886/189c
First Contract for Postdocs (SCIENCE VOL 303 19 MARCH 2004)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol303/issue5665/s-scope.dtl#303/5665/1745c
Dem Union Blues (SCIENCE VOL 314 10 NOVEMBER 2006)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol314/issue5801/s-scope.dtl#314/5801/909b
Authorship articleS:
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/services/yank_article.cfm
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2010_04_1
SCIENCE VOL 311 3 FEBRUARY 2006
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5761/593a
SCIENCE VOL 312 21 APRIL 2006
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/312/5772/349d
SURVEYS:
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/StrategicPlan
http://readerpanel.nature.com/wix2/p399160253.aspx
http://www.ucsusa.org/action/YSSsurvey.html
http://postdoc.sigmaxi.org/
http://www.ucsusa.org/action/ucs-young-scientists.html
Organizations and articles:
http://www.prouaw.org/home/home.php
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Postdoctoral-Researchers-Organize-PROUAW/116074165097340?ref=ts
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/
http://cgeu.org/contacts.php
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/StrategicPlan.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2010/04/congressional-h.html
http://www.amacad.org/arisefolder/ariseReport.pdf
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/StrategicPlan.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5940/528
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/fair-unpaid-internships-u_n_547543.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=841075
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2010_04_16/caredit.a1000039
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/325/5940/528
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html
Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Quresh Latif wrote:
I am a young scientist. I have only one published MS and two are in the review
process. However, I have reviewed 3 or 4 MSs. It seems my name being circulated
via my advisor and colleagues is enough to get me opportunities to review
manuscripts. Therefore, it seems that I would have earned enough PubCreds by
now to earn reviews of my manuscripts given such a system.
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Jonathan Craft <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Jonathan Craft <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] fixing peer review - elegant new proposal and petition
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 8:39 AM
This is an interesting idea, but what
would this entail for young
scientists? Would they have to depend on a more
senior co-author with
PubCreds? Young scientist have to publish some amount
before they would
even get a chance to earn Pubcreds. The Pubcreds
system should be done in a
way that would not prohibit young scientists from being
independent of those
who have had more time to accrue Pubcred wealthy.
All the Best,
Jonathan
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Amartya Saha <[email protected]>
wrote:
Its a good idea; however there is a possibility of the
quality of reviews
deteriorating, whereby reviewers may not assign the
time and effort required
for an indepth review, as their main aim would
be to get as many "PubCreds"
as possible.
cheers
Amartya
Quoting Jeremy Fox <[email protected]>:
The peer review system is breaking down and will
soon be in crisis:
increasing numbers of submitted manuscripts mean
that demand for reviews
is
outstripping supply. This is a classic "tragedy of
the commons," in which
individuals have every incentive to exploit the
"reviewer commons" by
submitting manuscripts, but little or no incentive
to contribute reviews.
The result is a system increasingly dominated by
"cheats" (individuals who
submit papers without doing proportionate
reviewing), with increasingly
random and potentially biased results as more and
more manuscripts are
rejected without external review.
In the latest issue of the ESA Bulletin (July
2010, v. 91, p. 325), Owen
Petchey and I propose a classic solution to this
classic tragedy:
privatizing the commons. Specifically, we propose
that instead of being
free
to exploit the reviewer commons at will, authors
should have to "pay" for
their submissions using a novel "currency" called
PubCreds, earned by
performing reviews. We discuss how this simple,
powerful idea could be
implemented in practice, and describe its
advantages over previously
proposed solutions.
The article is available at
<http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/0012-9623-91.3.325>.
Owen and I are very serious about wanting to see
this idea, or a suitable
alternative, implemented. We have set up a
petition at
<http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fix-peer-review/>.
Please sign if you
support this idea, at least enough to want to see
it further discussed.
The
petition site also has a link to the article, and
a blog where we'll be
updating on progress of the idea and responding to
comments.
PubCreds are already set to be discussed by the
ESA Publications
Committee,
and by numerous other ecology journals. If you're
as frustrated as Owen
and
I by the recent deterioration of the peer review
process, now's the time
to
speak up and take action. Please sign the
petition, and pass it on to your
colleagues and students.
www.bio.miami.edu/asaha
