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CANCELED: Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review

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In order to be in alignment with new restrictions regarding meetings and events at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the MSK Library Advancing Authorship event “Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review” scheduled for Thursday, March 12, has been canceled.

We have tentatively rescheduled this event for Thursday, June 4 (1:00 PM-2:30 PM), but please note the situation with COVID-19 is fluid and we’re unable to give a definitive date/time at this time.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Have You Heard of the “Journal Transparency Index”?

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A new metric will be launching from the Center for Open Science focusing on scholarly journals and measuring their commitment to research transparency, according to a recent article entitled, “Journal transparency index will be ‘alternative’ to impact scores.” (January 29, 2020)

The background for this measurement can be found with the Transparency & Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines, a metric that reports the steps that a journal takes to implement open science practices. In reviewing the list of TOP Implementors, as of June 2019, there were over 1,100 journals that have applied one or more TOP-compliant policies including Science (AAAS), and many Nature Springer titles.

The guidelines cover eight transparency standards (citation, data transparency, analytic methods (code) transparency, research materials transparency, design & analysis transparency, preregistration of studies, preregistration of analysis plans, and replication).  Within each standard, there are three levels of implementation (also referred to as levels of increasing stringency), as well as a “not implemented” category. The higher the score in this evaluation rubric, the higher level of support the journal publisher is providing in promoting and encouraging open science.

Among these measures of assessment is data sharing, wherein a journal could score up to three points.  In order for this to happen, a data availability statement must be included, authors would be required to share their data, and the study should be reproducible based on the data provided.

As with any measurement, time ultimately is required to determine the impact of this journal assessment or score.  This ranking system might very well contribute to research transparency and is a step in the right direction in supporting the reproducibility crisis.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

“Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review” – Registration now open

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Join us for our first Advancing Authorship event of 2020 – Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review.

Register now to save your seat. 

Join Dr. Eric Smith as he discusses using multiple myeloma as a model for CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors, including the findings from his 2019 Science Translational Medicine study, “GPRC5D is a target for the immunotherapy of multiple myeloma with rationally designed CAR-T cells.” 

Plus, hear from the journal’s editor, Dr. Lindsey Pujanandez, about the process of working with Dr. Smith on his manuscript from submission to publication, and get advice on how to make it through the editorial triage process.

Location: Rockefeller Research Labs Building (430 E 67th St), Room 116
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020, 1:00 pm—2:30 pm

Complimentary refreshments will be served. Register now. 

Eric Smith, MD, PhD, Director of Clinical Translation,  Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering

 

 

 

 

 

Lindsey Pujanandez, PhD, Associate Editor,  Science Translational Medicine (STM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)