Shunning the scoop: Sidestepping the race to publish

Christina Lynggaard; Joanne E Littlefair; Kristine Bohmann; Elizabeth L Clare

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104080

Shunning the scoop: Sidestepping the race to publish

iScience. 2022 Apr 4;25(4):104080. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104080. eCollection 2022 Apr 15.

Authors

Christina Lynggaard¹, Joanne E Littlefair², Kristine Bohmann¹, Elizabeth L Clare^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.
² School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS London, UK.
³ Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada.

Abstract

What happens when a researcher finds out that research very similar to their own is already being conducted? What if they find out that the said research is also very close to being published? First, there is probably anxiety and panic. Maybe, there are frantic calls to collaborators. Perhaps Twitter rants about the phenomenon of scooping that plagues all researchers, especially those early-career researchers who often feel they are in a race to get their best work out to the world.

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News