Category: 1. Research
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Charging money for an ethics review?
Together with a psychologist, I’m currently performing a comparatively simple interview study about the effectiveness of a software engineering method. Proper procedure is paramount in psychology, so we submitted an ethics review request to my employer’s institutional (ethics) review board. I didn’t think we’d need the ethics approval, and lo and behold the ethics board…
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An unpopular open source grant proposal (in German)
This is the leading motivation for a grant proposal I just filed. Venture-capital funded open source is good for society? Oh no, how dare I. The proposal will probably be rejected for heresy. Kommerzielle Open-Source-Unternehmen sind Unternehmen, welche Produkte und Dienstleistungen auf Basis einer Software bereitstellen, die zu Teilen oder auch vollständig der Welt kostenfrei…
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Some associated editors should grow a spine
There, it happened again. An associate editor of a prestigious software engineering journal rejected our paper, because they wouldn’t overrule a single bogus review. In the current case, all reviewers were on plain accept, with one holdout, reviewer 2, who recommended a plain reject. (The paper was the first revised version of the original submission.)…
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Editorial quality at Elsevier
If you ever wondered about editorial quality at Elsevier, look no further. Original here and in case it gets fixed, on the Web Archive here, and finally the PDF.
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How to extend the authorship list of a research article
Let’s assume you are a scientist, collaborating with another scientist on some research project that will lead to exactly one article (to keep things simple). How should you go about involving further scientists, perhaps to perform even stronger research? The answer is simple, if you work from first principles. Here there are the two key…
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When there is no alternative to inner source (upcoming talk)
I’ve been settling on this talk to motivate our inner source work; I will be holding it a couple of times over the coming year, most notably first at the upcoming Inner Source Summit 2023. Title: When there is no alternative to inner source Abstract: Sometimes, there is no alternative to using inner-source software development. In this talk, I look at the…