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N – Paradigm shift for clichés2 October 2009“Holy grail” is “the mother of all bad science clichés, the worst offender,” according to wired.com, which reports that Nature has banned the phrase. These cliché police found 2.6 million […]
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N – Nature v science in cartoon2 October 2009The site PhD Comics has two strips devoted to the rivalry between the top science journals Science and Nature. The first compares the journals, joking at the way journals express […]
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N – Live peer review by blog1 October 2009An organic chemist commented “WTF is going on here?” on an unrelated post in the blog Totally Synthetic, after seeing a paper in a respected chemistry journal that didn’t make […]
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N – Journals should police citations1 October 2009Journals should require corresponding authors to formally acknowledge that they take responsibility for the completeness, accuracy, and interpretation of a manuscript’s references, a BMJ editorial argues (2009;339:b2049). Inappropriate citation in […]
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N – BMJ reforms research publishing1 October 2009From January 2010 the BMJ will publish all original research articles first online, with no word limit and open access to the full text. The print journal will contain only […]
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N – Headline is a bum job30 September 2009The subeditors on the Daily Express newspaper must have cringed when they saw that a headline on a two page feature in one edition read “Can Dec anally match Ant?” […]
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N – Plagiarist chairs conference30 September 2009Doctors have called for a boycott of a conference that is to be chaired by a proved plagiarist, the BMJ reports (2009;339:b3545). The fifth annual meeting of the International Academy […]
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N – Scientist sued over missing data30 September 2009A company is suing a researcher who it accuses of committing more than five years of research fraud, it said in a lawsuit filed in a US federal court, reported […]
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N – Professor faces censure over data30 September 2009A UK doctor who authored a paper about an osteoporosis drug is to face a General Medical Council hearing over accusations that he falsely declared that he had seen all […]
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N – Search for the phoniest formula30 September 2009Newspapers often feature mathematical formulas that purport to calculate the perfect biscuit, the perfect marriage, the perfect joke, and so on, complains the science writer Simon Singh in the Guardian […]
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N – PLoS archives ghostwriting documents30 September 2009A US federal court has forced the release of about 1500 documents detailing how articles that include marketing messages written by ghostwriters but attributed to academics are strategically placed in […]
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N – Journal or blog?30 September 2009Researchers need better guidance on the value of different communication channels, the Research Information Network has concluded in a report based on literature review, bibliometric analysis, focus groups, interviews, and […]
