Scientific Communication and Education

Open science saves lives: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

1. Lonni Besançon
2. Nathan Peiffer-Smadja
3. Corentin Segalas
4. Haiting Jiang
5. Paola Masuzzo
6. Cooper Smout
7. Eric Billy
8. Maxime Deforet
9. Clémence Leyrat

Reviewed by ScreenIT, preLights

Life and work of researchers trapped in the COVID-19 pandemic vicious cycle

1. S. Aryan Ghaffarizadeh
2. S. Arman Ghaffarizadeh
3. Amir H. Behbahani
4. Mohammad Mehdizadeh
5. Alison Olechowski

Reviewed by ScreenIT

Do examinations prepare students for higher education? A lesson from the Covid-19 lockdown

1. Harriet L. Jones
2. Valentina Zini
3. Jon R. Green
4. John R. Prendergast
5. Jon Scott

Reviewed by ScreenIT

COVID-19 and the abrupt shift to remote learning: Impact on grades and perceived learning for undergraduate biology students

1. K. Supriya
2. Chris Mead
3. Ariel D. Anbar
4. Joshua L. Caulkins
5. James P. Collins
6. Katelyn M. Cooper
7. Paul C. LePore
8. Tiffany Lewis
9. Amy Pate
10. Rachel A. Scott
11. Sara E. Brownell

Reviewed by ScreenIT

Associations of topic-specific peer review outcomes and institute and center award rates with funding disparities at the National Institutes of Health

1. Michael S Lauer
2. Jamie Doyle
3. Joy Wang
4. Deepshikha Roychowdhury

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper provides the basis for further discussion about the perceived inequities in NIH funding based on race. The strengths of this manuscript are the detailed breakdown of the available data in order to evaluate for biases, the availability of data for multiple years (2011-2015) and the consideration of alternate explanations (e.g. new applications vs resubmissions; single vs multi PI). With that said, given their conclusion that Institute (IC) assignment was the main determinant of funding rates, the approach for IC assignment should have been discussed. Other issues relate to the complexity of statistical analyses and a lack of clarity on confounding issues towards firm conclusions.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

Reviewed by eLife

Gender, Race and Parenthood Impact Academic Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Survey to Action

1. Fernanda Staniscuaski
2. Livia Kmetzsch
3. Rossana C. Soletti
4. Fernanda Reichert
5. Eugenia Zandonà
6. Zelia M. C. Ludwig
7. Eliade F. Lima
8. Adriana Neumann
9. Ida V. D. Schwartz
10. Pamela B. Mello-Carpes
11. Alessandra S. K. Tamajusuku
12. Fernanda P. Werneck
13. Felipe K. Ricachenevsky
14. Camila Infanger
15. Adriana Seixas
16. Charley C. Staats
17. Leticia de Oliveira

Reviewed by PREreview, ScreenIT

Analysing the effectiveness of Twitter as an equitable community communication tool for international conferences

1. Niall W. Duncan
2. Russell Shean

Reviewed by PeerJ

Lots of movement, little progress: a review of reptile home range literature

1. Matthew Crane
2. Inês Silva
3. Benjamin M. Marshall
4. Colin T. Strine

Reviewed by PeerJ

Only two out of five articles by New Zealand researchers are free-to-access: a multiple API study of access, citations, cost of Article Processing Charges (APC), and the potential to increase the proportion of open access

1. Richard K.A. White
2. Anton Angelo
3. Deborah Fitchett
4. Moira Fraser
5. Luqman Hayes
6. Jessica Howie
7. Emma Richardson
8. Bruce White

Reviewed by PeerJ

Insights from a survey of mentorship experiences by graduate and postdoctoral researchers

1. Sarvenaz Sarabipour
2. Natalie M Niemi
3. Steven J Burgess
4. Christopher T Smith
5. Alexandre W Bisson Filho
6. Ahmed Ibrahim
7. Kelly Clark

Reviewed by preLights