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B – Citation violations8 May 2009Gallagher R. Citation violations. The Scientist 2009;23(5):13. The authors of scientific articles do not always cite properly previous research works. The “bibliographic negligence” or “citation amnesia”, as the improper citation […]
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B – The extent of influence2 May 2009Johnston R. The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline’s literature. Scientometrics. 2009 (78)3: 409-420 10.1007/s11192-007-2015-2 Most studies of scholarly influence within disciplines using […]
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B – Are multi-authorship and visibility related?2 May 2009Iribarren-Maestro I, Lascurain-Sánchez ML, Sanz-Casado E Are multi-authorship and visibility related? Study of ten research areas at Carlos III University of Madrid. Scientometrics 2009 (79)1: 191-200 DOI 10.1007/s11192-009-0412-4 Opinions in […]
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B – APS copyright policy still no good20 April 2009Landis, Geoffrey A. APS copyright policy still no good. APS News 2009;18(4):5. Letter querying why the American Physical Society’s “improved” copyright policy (ibid. 2009;18(2):8) still demands transfer of copyright on […]
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In memory of a transformative editor of NATURE19 April 2009Sir John Maddox (or JM), as his colleagues used to refer to him, passed away on the 12th of April 2009. JM first took the reins as the editor of […]
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B – Past performance, peer review, and project selection12 April 2009van den Besselaar P, Leydesdorff L. Past performance, peer review, and project selection: A case study in the social and behavioral sciences. Sigmetrics*. 2009 Do grant allocation decisions correlate with […]
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Being a Science Editor7 April 2009It’s not a very common job if you’re a science graduate, but if you’re good at English and if you have a passion for the written word, maybe it’s a […]
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N – Clarity is everything6 April 2009If something is easy to read about, it seems easier to do. The simplicity or complexity with which a task is described affects our attitude towards the task itself and […]
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B – All data are not created equal2 April 2009Neill Us. All data are not created equal. J Clin Invest 2009; 119: 424-4, doi:10.1172/JCI38802. We continue to screen all figures from accepted manuscripts, and we continue to find irregularities. […]
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B – Impact Factor Wars: Episode V-The Empire Strikes Back29 March 2009Brumback RA.Impact Factor Wars: Episode V-The Empire Strikes Back. Journal of Child Neurology, 2009 (24)3: 260-262 DOI: 10.1177/0883073808331366 http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/24/3/260 A really amazing piece on the war of authors and editors […]
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N – JAMA gags whistleblowers27 March 2009Whistleblowers who spot undeclared competing interests in papers in the top medical journal JAMA will be told that they must “not reveal this information to third parties or the media […]
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B – NFAIS Best Practices for Journal Article Publishing26 March 2009National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) approved the Best Practices for Journal Article Publishing on February 13, 2009. They wish to disseminate the document widely throughout the Information Community […]