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B – Journals to Print Author Names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean2 March 2008[American Physical Society. 2008 [Heading in Chinese characters!]. APS News 17(2)1. The APS journals now offer authors the option to include their names in either Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters […]
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B – Prediction of citation counts for clinical articles at two years using data available within three weeks of publication28 February 2008Prediction of citation counts for clinical articles at two years using data available within three weeks of publication: retrospective cohort study Cynthia Lokker, K Ann McKibbon, R James McKinlay, Nancy […]
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W – A world mapper according to subject of interest27 February 2008Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.Interesting to see, among many maps, the science research maps, where […]
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W – “Open Access Publishing in European Networks”27 February 2008The European Commission announced that the proposal from Amsterdam University Press together with five European University Presses within the/ e/Content/plus/ Programme, has been selected for negotiations on funding.OAPEN intends to […]
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B – Open-access publishing at what cost?26 February 2008Roth, Dana L., Bronsdon, Robert, Phipps, Thomas E., Jr., and Dylla, H. Frederick. 2008 Open-access publishing at what cost?. Physics Today 61(2)8-9. Letters commenting on Guinnessy, Paul. 2007 Stakeholders weigh […]
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W – SCImago Journal & Country Rank , a new bibliometric indicator23 February 2008SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) a new tool in the universe of bibliometric indicators SCImago is new portal of bibliometric indicators based on citations. Launched in December 2007, it […]
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B – Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors22 February 2008Budden AE, Tregenza T, Aarssen LW, et al. Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2008; 23:4-6. The study reveals that the introduction in […]
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B – Developing a schema for classifying the content of editorial discussion19 February 2008Dickersin K, Ssemanda E, Mansell C, Rennie D. What do the JAMA editors say when they discuss manuscripts that they are considering for publication? Developing a schema for classifying the […]
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B – Effects of Spacing and Titles on Judgements of the Effectiveness of Structured Abstracts19 February 2008Hartley J, Betts L. The Effects of Spacing and Titles on Judgements of the effectiveness of Structured Abstracts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2007;58(14):2335-2340doi: 10.1002/asi.20718 […]
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B – Keeping plagiarism at bay19 February 2008Martin B. R. Keeping plagiarism at bay – A salutary tale. Science Direct 2007;36(7):905-911doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.08.001 The main concern of this editorial is examining whether plagiarism is increasing in social sciences and, […]
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B – Journal Usage factors12 February 2008Peter T Shepherd PT. Final Report on the Investigation into the Feasibility of Developing and Implementing Journal Usage Factors. Sponsored by the United Kingdom Serials Group, May 2007 This report […]
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b – Peer Review: benefits, perceptions and alternatives4 February 2008Ware M. Peer Review: benefits, perceptions and alternatives. Publishing Research Consortium: London; 2008 The Publishing Research Consortium (PRC) is a group of associations and publishers, whichsupports global research into scholarly […]