Are metrics meaningful?
How do we measure the impact of research? And are the metrics we measure of value? These questions, and more, were discussed at this year’s COPE European… Read more »
Elizabeth Moylan
Elizabeth has a PhD and post-doc from the University of Oxford, UK. In 2004, she moved into publishing as an in-house Editor handling peer review on the BMC-series journals. In her present role as Senior Editor (Research Integrity), Elizabeth has oversight of editorial policies and peer review processes and is particularly interested in models of peer review.
Latest posts by Elizabeth Moylan (see all)
- Advancing peer review at BMC - 24th November 2017
- What does transparency in peer review mean to you? - 21st September 2017
- Peer Review Week – it’s back! - 18th July 2016
Inappropriate manipulation of peer review
Following a thorough investigation, we can now provide a further update on our discovery last year of attempts to manipulate the peer review process at several… Read more »
Reducing publication bias in animal research
A workshop on publication bias in animal research reveals the importance of publishing negative results and the role of preclinical study registration. But is… Read more »
Which system of peer review for you?
It’s two years now since the journals BMC Pharmacology and BMC Clinical Pharmacology merged to create BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. Chris Morrey, the… Read more »
Beyond ENCODE – let’s continue the conversation
As the human genome sequence was completed, so the deep analysis of it began in earnest with the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project – intended to… Read more »
BioMed Central announces overall winner of 8th Annual Research Awards
After months of work nominating, whittling down, discussing, dare I say arguing, and finally voting, we can now announce that the winners of BioMed Central’s… Read more »
Are there alternatives to peer review?
There are lots of discussions about peer review happening at the moment, it seems April is a busy month. My colleagues took part in peer review debates in… Read more »
And the winners are…
Each year the BioMed Central Research Awards recognize the best freely available open access research published within our journals. The awards acknowledge… Read more »
The Zoological Code and online publication
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has published a response to Dubois et al. who have criticised the way online journals have… Read more »
Who should be an author?
The question may seem obvious but the area of authorship can be a thorny topic, for researchers and editors alike. As Tim Albert and Liz Wager note in their… Read more »