Is academic publishing broken?

None of the latest breakthroughs in science come into mainstream practice without academic publishing - submission of a manuscript based on a study or experiment, which is then peer reviewed to assess its quality. 

Although this might not seem like an issue for sport, much of what goes on in the gymnasiums, playing fields and even front offices of sporting organisations has its roots in something that was once published in a journal somewhere. 

But talk to just about any researcher or journal editor and they’ll tell you that academic publishing is in crisis, and its getting worse. 

On this episode, host Sam Robertson is joined by Journal of Sports Sciences editor Professor Grant Abt and the Executive Chair for the Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology, Associate Professor Vanessa Yingling to determine whether academic publishing actually is broken - and if so - how can we fix it? 

For more on open access publishing models, see https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/green-gold-diamond-black-what-does-it-all-mean/ 

For more on the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) see https://elifesciences.org/articles/58654  

For STORK's webpage, visit https://storkinesiology.org/ 

For information on the 2022 Inaugural STORK Summit see https://sites.google.com/storkinesiology.org/stork-summit-2022/ 

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