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RESEARCH EVALUATION1 November 2006Cockerill M. 2006. Identifying the most important research – Is there more to life than Impact Factor? The Write Stuff 15 (3):82-84 Impact factor has become one of the most […]
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POLITICS OF PUBLISHING31 October 2006Wager E. 2006. Publishing clinical trial results: The future beckons. PLoS Clin Trials 1(6): e31. Why do we publish clinical trials results? Is the present format for reporting results from […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES20 October 2006Farthing, M. J. G. 2006. Authors and Publication Practices. Science and Engineering Ethics. 12(1):41. Not only authors can perpetrate research and publication misconduct, but journal editors and reviewers may also […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006García Landa L. G. 2006. Academic Language Barriers and Language Freedom. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):61.The current trend to publish research predominantly in English acts as an obstacle to […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006Burrough-Boenisch, J. 2006. Negotiable Acceptability: Reflections on the Interactions between Language Professionals in Europe and NNS 1 Scientists Wishing to Publish in English. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):31. This […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006Ammon U. 2006. Language Planning for International Scientific Communication: An Overview of Questions and Potential Solutions. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):1. The recent history of international science communication is […]
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PUBLISHING, INFORMATION29 September 2006Seringhaus M, Gerstein M. 2006. The death of the scientific paper. The Scientist. 20(9):25.The basic currency of science is still the research article, but modern laboratory research results yield enormous […]
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INFORMATION, PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING29 September 2006Rovner S. L. 2006. Online archives on a bumpy road. Chem. Eng. News. 84 (33):50-53 The author explains what digital repositories are, how they are being used at LANL and […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES28 September 2006D. Cyranoski, Named and shamed, Nature, 2006, 441:392-393. Report on how scientific misconduct is dealt with in China, including an unofficial ‘name-and-shame’ website called New Threads (http://www.xys.org/), whichis intended to […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING28 September 2006Michael Banks, of the MPI for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, has calculated the now familiar h-index (or Hirsch index) for some chemical compounds and topics in physics. He proposes […]
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21 September 2006Johnson RK. 2006. Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with theInternet? The Journal of Neuroscience 26(37):9349-9351. The exchange of information enabled by the Internet has swept away many limitations on research […]
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PUBLISHING4 September 2006Pabón Escobar SC, da Costa MC. 2006. Visibility of Latin american scientific publications: the example of Bolivia. Journal of Science Communication. 2:1–8.The discussion on the state of the art of […]