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N – Write for peer reviewers6 January 2010“The real readers that matter are the peer reviewers. Peer reviewers are specialists and for them to get excited, you’re going to be speaking a language that is not necessarily […]
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N – UK libel law risks patient harm6 January 2010A Danish radiologist says that the lives of patients are being put at risk because libel laws are preventing doctors and scientists from speaking in public about their clinical experiences, […]
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B – The textual characteristics of traditional and Open Access scientific journals are similar6 January 2010Verspoor K, Cohen KB, Hunter L. The textual characteristics of traditional and Open Access scientific journals are similar. BMC Bioinformatics 2009,10:183 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-183 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/183 The authors collected two sets of documents, […]
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N – European university presses fold5 January 2010University presses in Europe are facing funding cuts, with one press having closed and others cutting back on the number of titles they’re publishing, and a European university press association […]
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N – Cell highlights proteins and genes5 January 2010The journal Cell has piloted technology that highlights proteins, genes, and small molecules in research articles. Clicking on these entities opens pop-up windows that contain relevant contextual information, with additional […]
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B – On the need to distinguish between author and journal self-citations.4 January 2010Hartley J. On the need to distinguish betwen author and journal self-citations.Scientometrics 2009;81(3):787-788. Prof. James Hartley, on this ‘letter to the Editor’, with regard to his book on Academic Writing […]
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B – Never mind the impact factor: colleagues know better!4 January 2010Hartley J. Never mind the impact factor: colleagues know better!Publication databases disc 77Keele University In this article Prof. James Hartley, points the finger to the present system and standards of […]
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B – “Down’s syndrome” or “Down syndrome”?23 December 2009Jana N, Barik S, Arora N. Current use of medical eponyms–a need for global uniformity in scientific publications. BMC Med Res Methodol 2009;9:18. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/9/18 Eponym indicates the name of a […]
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B – Personal knowledge management The role of Web 2.0 tools for managing knowledge at individual and organisational levels20 December 2009Razmerita L., Kirchner K., Sudzina F. Personal knowledge management The role of Web 2.0 tools for managing knowledge at individual and organisational levels. Online Information Review 2009;33(6):1021-1039. www.emeraldinsight.com/1468-4527.htm Knowledge Management […]
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A slippery slope13 December 2009Editorial. A slippery slope. Nature 2009; 462(7274):699http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7274/pdf/462699b.pdf After what appears to be an “arbitrary and ad hoc” decision to cancel a funding committee-approved, animal-use committee-approved study using baboons to test […]
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A question of integrity13 December 2009Editorial. A question of integrity. Nature 2009; 462(7274):699 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7274/pdf/462699b.pdf This editorial highlights allegations of plagiarism against the authors of research papers in which members of the Iranian government were co-authors. […]
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B – Systematic Differences in Impact across Publication Tracks at PNAS7 December 2009Rand DG, Pfeiffer T, Systematic Differences in Impact across Publication Tracks at PNAS. PLoS ONE 2009; 4(12): e8092. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008092 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008092 Citation data can be used to evaluate the editorial policies […]