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SweetFreedom Posted 11 years ago
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Gaining traction?
(1) Does "gaining traction" mean "gaining momentum"?
(2) Does "his sample" refer to "Siler's sample"?
Context:
One, perhaps radical, solution that seems to be gaining traction is to eliminate prepublication peer review altogether. With the rise of online journals, preprint servers, and academic social networks such as ResearchGate, page space is no longer at a premium, allowing more results to be published than ever before. “I think we’d be a lot better off if we just published everything. That’s probably the direction the world is actually going,” Starbuck says.
Low acceptance rates in journals may foster exclusivity and prestige, Siler says, but if his sample is representative of science as a whole, journals might also be missing important research that is esoteric or unconventional. In the case of the 14 overlooked items, “what the highly prestigious journals decide doesn’t dictate the ultimate value or recognition of the article,” Starbuck notes.
More;
http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/12/does-journal-peer-review-miss-best-and-brightest
(2) Does "his sample" refer to "Siler's sample"?
Context:
One, perhaps radical, solution that seems to be gaining traction is to eliminate prepublication peer review altogether. With the rise of online journals, preprint servers, and academic social networks such as ResearchGate, page space is no longer at a premium, allowing more results to be published than ever before. “I think we’d be a lot better off if we just published everything. That’s probably the direction the world is actually going,” Starbuck says.
Low acceptance rates in journals may foster exclusivity and prestige, Siler says, but if his sample is representative of science as a whole, journals might also be missing important research that is esoteric or unconventional. In the case of the 14 overlooked items, “what the highly prestigious journals decide doesn’t dictate the ultimate value or recognition of the article,” Starbuck notes.
More;
http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-community/2014/12/does-journal-peer-review-miss-best-and-brightest
Top answer
SweetFreedom (1) Does "gaining traction" mean "gaining momentum"? Yes. 'gaining acceptance'; 'becoming acceptable to more and more people'.
- SweetFreedom (1) Does "gaining traction" mean "gaining momentum"?
- Yes.
- 'gaining acceptance'; 'becoming acceptable to more and more people'.
- SweetFreedom (2) Does "his sample" refer to "Siler's sample"?
- Yes.
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SweetFreedom(1) Does "gaining traction" mean "gaining momentum"?Yes. 'gaining acceptance'; 'becoming acceptable to more and more people'.
SweetFreedom(2) Does "his sample" refer to "Siler's sample"?Yes.
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