Open access - clear benefits, hidden costs

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

Citations and open access: questionable benefits.

S ome of my recent editorials have dealt with the impact that open access (OA) has on the scientific and economic aspects of the American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR). As is well known, in addition to being a public service, OA allows greater dissemination of articles. In general, medical journals offer these types of access: ● Subscription access—articles only available to those who pay su...

Evaluations: Hidden Costs, Questionable Benefits, and Superior Alternatives

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...

Evaluations : Hidden Costs , Questionable Benefits , and Superior Alternatives Bruno

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, that output evaluations in academic research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover, intrinsic work motivation is crowded out and undesired lock-in effects take place. Secondly,...

Benefits of open and high-powered research outweigh costs.

Several researchers recently outlined unacknowledged costs of open science practices, arguing these costs may outweigh benefits and stifle discovery of novel findings. We scrutinize these researchers' (a) statistical concern that heightened stringency with respect to false-positives will increase false-negatives and (b) metascientific concern that larger samples and executing direct replication...