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Chris Hartgerink

Chris Hartgerink

"Data upon request" no longer ethical?

"Data upon request" no longer ethical?

A recent paper in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology indicates that researchers in their sample who indicate data is available upon request actually fail to comply with data requests in 93%. This seemed to make a great impression on Twitter, with over 3,000 retweets and 15,000 likes (at

Unarchived research - the case of ScienceMatters

Unarchived research - the case of ScienceMatters

One of the key functions of a scholarly publishing system is archiving the work - something that doesn't happen without effort. One of the documents I like to reference for archival strategy is that by National Digital Stewardship Alliance - it goes from hot archival (easily retrievable but

A future fieldworker

A future fieldworker

While she previously would note data about the behavior of her grackles in a notebook and transcribe them on the computer, she now whipped out her phone. Armed with the most advanced research device she'd ever been able to privately buy, she starts filling out a quick form.

Imagining a future in research

Imagining a future in research

This was my prepared fictional story for a session at the Abraham Kuyper Summer Seminar on Research Integrity Fifteen years from today, wednesday August 27th, 2036. The academic year starts next week. It is a year the northern hemisphere burned in summer and the southern hemisphere burned in winter. People

Constructing business as a research theory

Constructing business as a research theory

As an ex-academic, I've learned many things that do not transfer to outside academia. Sometimes it is a simple mismatch of knowledge, other times it is an idea of understanding that completely misses the mark. Sometimes it's me getting in the way of myself and being

Editor for JOSS

Editor for JOSS

I am pleased to announce that I am starting as an editor for the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) (as of August 1st, 2021). Despite my motto "journals won't solve the problems journals cause", JOSS is doing one of the best jobs possible within this

Pet peeves of peer review

Pet peeves of peer review

I've been doing peer reviews for about six years and for some reason have been invited to do a bunch more recently. During the Munin conference keynote by Dan Quintana and James Heathers on peer review, some of my pet peeves of peer review came to mind. These