{"id":8093,"date":"2018-08-29T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T21:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mindthegraph.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:48:05","slug":"scientific-paper-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindthegraph.com\/blog\/nb\/format-for-vitenskapelige-artikler\/","title":{"rendered":"Trenger det vitenskapelige artikkelformatet en revolusjon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scientific paper format was a revolution in science. Before it, the scientific communication was made between few academics using letters and rare books.  Then, during the XVII Century, a revolution arises to improve scientific communication. The first scientific magazines allowed the propagation of results, data and new techniques on a larger scale. The scientific paper leveraged scientific and technological progress. That was 350 years ago. Recently, an article from The Atlantic, Den vitenskapelige artikkelen er foreldet<\/a>, <\/em>forslag <\/em>vi trenger en ny revolusjon innen forskningskommunikasjon.<\/p>\n

This is a subject of great importance to be discussed by scientists. Are we succeeding in presenting our results in the current publishing format? Is the scientific paper format enough to present the new data in the 21st Century?<\/p>\n

Since the first scientific papers were published, few changes have taken place. Yes, we publish online. However, We use “virtual paper sheets”, and called pdf. To illustrate the questioning, James Somers, the author of the atlantic article, cites an example given by Bret Victor, a researcher who worked at Apple:  \"Etter Gutenberg ble trykkpressen mest brukt til \u00e5 etterligne kalligrafien i bibler.<\/em> It took nearly 100 years of technical and conceptual improvements to invent the modern book. There was this entire period where they had the new technology of printing, but they were just using it to emulate the old media.\u201d Now,<\/em> Det desidert mest popul\u00e6re verkt\u00f8yet vi har for \u00e5 kommunisere resultatene v\u00e5re, er PDF-filen - bokstavelig talt en simulering av et stykke papir.<\/p>\n

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The first scientific paper format was, usually, more direct, shorter, and less formal than the current papers. It seems that the more advanced science becomes, the more difficult it is to communicate using scientific papers. We use advanced softwares to generate our data and we need to present them in a paper sheet. Programvare er et dynamisk medium, det er ikke papir.<\/em><\/p>\n

I fjor publiserte magasinet Nature en artikkel p\u00e5 nettet Det er ikke bare du: Vitenskapelige artikler blir stadig vanskeligere \u00e5 lese<\/a> <\/strong>for \u00e5 diskutere \u00f8kningen av jargong i dagens vitenskapelige artikkelformat.
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If\u00f8lge Somers, Dagens papirer er lengre enn noensinne og fulle av sjargong og symboler.<\/em> De er avhengige av kjeder av dataprogrammer som genererer data, rydder opp i data, plotter data og kj\u00f8rer statistiske modeller p\u00e5 data. Disse programmene er ofte b\u00e5de s\u00e5 slurvete skrevet og s\u00e5 sentrale for resultatene at det har bidratt til en replikasjonskrise, eller sagt p\u00e5 en annen m\u00e5te, at artikkelen ikke klarer \u00e5 utf\u00f8re sin mest grunnleggende oppgave: \u00e5 rapportere hva du faktisk har oppdaget, tydelig nok til at noen andre kan oppdage det selv.<\/p>\n

I et fors\u00f8k p\u00e5 \u00e5 endre denne situasjonen utvikler mange forskere sine egne programvarer. Eller de flytter fra akademia til private selskaper og oppstartsbedrifter. Somers viser til Galileo for \u00e5 forklare dette: \"Galileo kunne ikke g\u00e5 noe sted for \u00e5 kj\u00f8pe et teleskop, han m\u00e5tte bygge sitt eget.\"<\/p>\n

We agree with that. Mind the Graph arose from the need for present our results in a more understandable way. We are scientists who believe in the revolutionary power of good communication in science.<\/p>\n

Vil du lese mer om forskningskommunikasjon og det vitenskapelige artikkelformatet? Ta en titt p\u00e5 innleggene v\u00e5re:<\/p>\n