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B – A longer paper gathers more citations8 October 2008Ball P. A longer paper gathers more citations. Nature 2008;455:274-275Doi: doi:10.1038/455274a In an analysis of 30,027 peer-reviewed papers published between 2000 and 2004 in top astronomy journals, astronomer Krzysztof Stanek […]
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B – Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship8 October 2008Evans J A. Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Science 2008;321(5887):395-399DOI: 10.1126/science.1150473 Electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. As more journal issues came […]
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B – Applying the author affiliation index to library and information science journals8 October 2008Cronin B, Meho Lokman I. Applying the author affiliation index to library and information science journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2008;59(11):1861-1865Doi: 10.1002/asi.20895 The authors […]
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B – Conference proceedings as a source of scientific information8 October 2008Lisée C, Larivière V, Archambault É. Conference proceedings as a source of scientific information: A bibliometric analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008;59(11):1776-1784Doi: 10.1002/asi.20888 This […]
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B – What Does it Take for a Canadian Political Scientist to be Cited?8 October 2008Montpetit É, Blais A, Foucault M. What Does it Take for a Canadian Political Scientist to be Cited? Social Science Quarterly 2008;89(3):802 – 816Doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2008.00561.x The article examines the factors […]
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B – Cyberabstracts8 October 2008Pinto M. Cyberabstracts: a portal on the subject of abstracting designed to improve information literacy skills. Journal of Information Science, 2008;34(5):667-679DOI: 10.1177/0165551507086262 An academic portal specifically centred on abstracts and […]
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B – Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation8 October 2008Sagi I. Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation. Journal of Information Science, 2008;34(5):680-687DOI: 10.1177/0165551507086261 The present study examines whether the use of humor in scientific article titles is […]
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N – Where are the negative results?6 October 2008“In their own way, academic journals are exactly as selective as the tabloid health pages,” claims the doctor and journalist Ben Goldacre in the Guardian newspaper on 20 September (http://tinyurl.com/4lyrq2). […]
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B – Don’t release other people’s data without their consent3 October 2008Frank DN. Don’t release other people’s data without their consent. Nature2008:455:589. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/full/455589a.html Letter commenting on Nature’s report that data photographed during aconference publication were later published without the presenter’sconsent. The […]
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B – Science journals have been slow to make themselves audible3 October 2008Achten WMJ. Science journals have been slow to make themselves audible.Nature 2008;455:590. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/full/455590a.html Podcasting holds huge potential for visually impaired people and others;listening to scientific articles read aloud could increase […]
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B – Better reporting of randomized trials1 October 2008Sally Hopewell, Anne Eisinga, Mike Clarke, Better reporting of randomized trials in biomedical journal and conference abstracts, Journal of Information Science, XX (X) 2007, pp. 1-12 Well reported research published […]
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N – Law demands patients’ consent30 September 2008Biomedical journals must always have explicit consent to publish medical information about an identifiable living patient, insists UK data protection legislation, Jane Smith explained in the BMJ (2008;337:a1572). Doctors should […]