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B – What researchers want16 March 2011Feijen M. What researchers want. Utrecht: SURFfoundation; February 2011 As part of SURFfoundation’s SURFshare programme, this study aimed at investigating what researchers need to enable them to store their research […]
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B – PrestigeRank: A new evaluation method for papers and journals15 March 2011PrestigeRank: A new evaluation method for papers and journalsSu Cheng, Pan YunTao, Zhen YanNing, Ma Zheng, Yuan JunPeng,Guo Hong, Yu ZhengLu, Ma CaiFeng,Wu YiShanJournal of Informetrics 5 (2011) 1–13doi:10.1016/j.joi.2010.03.011 The […]
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B – Gender mainstreaming in editorial policies15 March 2011Heidari S, Eckert MJ, Kippax S. et al. Time for gender mainstreaming in editorial poliocies. Journal of International AIDS Society 2011;14:11doi:10.1186/1758-2652-14-11 Despite proven sex and gender differences, women continue to […]
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B – Multiple open access availability and citation impact11 March 2011Xia J, Myers RL, Wilhoite SK. Multiple open access availability and citation impact. Journal of Information Science 2011;37:19-28(doi: 10.1177/0165551510389358) The research examines the relationship between open access (OA) availability of […]
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B – Impact factors and editing of medical journals10 March 2011Gasparyan AY. Editorial. Thoughts on impact factors and editing of medical journals. Inflammation & Allergy – Drug Targets 2010;9(1):2-5 In our times editing of medical journals is gaining more importance […]
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B – Open online review4 March 2011Mandavilli A. Trial by twitter. Nature 2011;469:286-287 The idea of open, online peer review is hardly new. In some fields scientists seem not willing to get involved in pre-publication discussion. […]
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B – Unpublished results hide the decline effect4 March 2011Schooler J. Unpublished results hide the decline effect. Nature News 2011;470(437)(doi:10.1038/470437a) Many scientifically discovered effects published in the literature seem to diminish with time. Some scientists attribute the decline effect […]
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B – Collaborator proximity as a predictor of scientific impact3 March 2011Lee K, Brownstein JS, Mills RG et al. Does collocation inform the impact of collaboration? PLoS ONE 2010;5(12):e14279(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014279) This study investigated whether the physical proximity of collaborators was a strong […]
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B – Are scientists good communicators?3 March 2011Radford T. Of course scientists can communicate. Nature 2011;469(445)(doi:10.1038/469445a) There are reasons why scientists, in particular, should be and often are good communicators. One is that most scientists work with […]
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B – Public access to publicly funded research3 March 2011Giglia E. Public access to publicly funded research: how and why mandatory policies by funders? European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2010;46(4):603-607 In the latest years several funders and […]
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B – Scientists prefer reading over publishing open access papers2 March 2011Vogel G. Quandary: scientists prefer reading over publishing ‘open access’ papers. ScienceInsider 14 January 2011 The EU-sponsored Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP Project) surveyed 50,000 researchers for their opinions […]
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B – OA Repositories: the researchers’ point of view2 March 2011Theodorou R. OA Repositories: the Researchers’ point of view. The Journal of Electronic Publishing December 2010;13(3)(doi: 10.3998/3336451.0013.304) A study examined how researchers consider and use open access (OA) publications. A […]