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N – Court silences science writer6 July 2009The science writer and broadcaster Simon Singh (www.simonsingh.com) is being sued for libel in the UK courts by the British Chiropractic Association. Singh wrote an article on 19 April 2008 […]
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N – Editor quits after hoax6 July 2009The editor of an open access journal has quit after a fake computer generated paper passed the journal’s peer review process and was accepted. The Open Information Science Journal (www.bentham.org/open/toiscij/) […]
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N – Indian journal’s integrity questioned6 July 2009An academic has branded the Indian journal Scientific Medicine (www.scientificmedicineonline.org) a “scam,” according to reports in the BMJ. A publicity email sent by a student representative wrongly listed Richard Smith, […]
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N – A pedant and proud6 July 2009“Pedant is not a term I choose, but nor is it one that I any longer regard as the insult that is generally intended,” writes Oliver Kamm, in an introduction […]
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N – Help for developing world authors6 July 2009Free editorial feedback for authors in the developing world is being provided by students from leading academic institutions in Canada, Europe, and the United States, reports Naomi Antony on SciDev.Net. […]
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N – Editors must cover climate change6 July 2009That editors must do more to encourage articles about climate change was a recurring theme at the World Conference of Science Journalists, according to Sian Lewis of SciDev.Net. The problem […]
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B – A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures5 July 2009Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R, 2009 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE 2009;4(6): e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006022 An interesting analysis on […]
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B – Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs2 July 2009Allen L, Jones C, Dolby K, Lynn D, Walport M. Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs. PLoS ONE 2009;4(6): e5910. […]
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N – Publisher censors sexuality article26 June 2009Taylor and Francis has prevented an article on pederasty from being published in the Journal of Homosexuality (www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=J082), blogged Harvey Marcovitch on bmj.com. The article had been accepted before the […]
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N – Google affects the brain26 June 2009The act of searching with Google changes patterns of cognition, research has shown. An exploratory study of people aged 55-76 found that internet searching may engage neural circuitry that is […]
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B – I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number21 June 2009Bourne PE, Fink JL. I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 4(12): e1000247. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000247http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000247 The idea of having our scholarly output properly characterized is […]
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Sharing medical research data. Whose rights and who’s right?9 June 2009Greenhalgh, T. Sharing medical research data. Whose rights and who’s right? BMJ 2009;338:b1499 A set of objections to Groves’ article “Managing UK research data for future use”, which include issues […]