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B – Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential22 November 2009Lyon, L. Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential.Open-science-report 2009;V1.0.http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx An in-depth report on Data Intensive Open science and its implications. A host of questions (aided with some […]
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B – How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1 2 3 Easy Steps22 November 2009Trebino R. How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 1 2 3 Easy StepsPhysics World 2009;22(11):56. The history of an ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Trebino to comment on a paper […]
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B – Can the highly cited psychiatric paper be predicted early?2 November 2009Hyett M, Parker G. Can the highly cited psychiatric paper be predicted early? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psichiatry 2009;(43):173-176. Normally, the importance of a scientific contribution is seen […]
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B – Common Weaknesses in Traditional Abstracts in the Social Sciences31 October 2009Hartley J, Betts L. Common Weaknesses in Traditional Abstracts in the Social Sciences Journal of the American Society for information science and technology 2009;60(10):2010-2018. An article by James Hartley on […]
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B – The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles19 October 2009Safer MA, Tang R, The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles Perspective on Psychological Science 2009;4(1):51-53 How important is citation in research papers? Forty nine psychology empirical articles randomly […]
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B – “Strategic Reading, Ontologies, and the Future of Scientific Publishing”17 October 2009Since its first “unseccessful step” – the launch of the “Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials” in1992 – information gathering have become, in the past decade, more and more sophisticated. […]
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B – Does analysis using “last observation carried forward” introduce bias in dementia research?15 October 2009Does analysis using “last observation carried forward”introduce bias in dementia research? CMAJ • October 2008;179 (8). doi:10.1503/cmaj.080820. A very critical standpoint on a widely used analytical technique in dementia research […]
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N – Opening up scholarly research12 October 2009A wiki allowing academics to summarise and discuss published papers has launched in October 2009. AcaWiki makes use of semantic web technology to allow organisation and sharing of summaries, as […]
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N – JAMA revises without correction9 October 2009An editorial in JAMA published online by its editors that outlined the journal’s revised policy on investigating conflicts of interest was replaced by a milder version, without an erratum or […]
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N – Iranian minister’s articles retracted8 October 2009Three journals will retract papers coauthored by Iran’s science and education minister, Kamran Daneshjou, Nature reports (2009;461:578-9, doi:10.1038/461578a). Nature found that substantial text of a paper in Engineering with Computers […]
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N – Green frog for Nobel laureates8 October 2009Since 1976, winners of Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry have been inducted into the Order of the Ever Smiling and Jumping Little Green Frog on 13 December. In the […]
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B – Globalizing Science Publishing3 October 2009Wieland G. Globalizing Science Publishing (Editorial). Science 2009;325 (21):920 DOI: 10.1126/science.1178378 Publishing in scientific journals is the most common and powerful means to disseminate new research findings. But, visibility and […]