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B – Rewards of predatory publications25 September 2017Pyne D. The rewards of predatory publications at a small business school. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2017;48(3):137-160(doi: 10.3138/jsp.48.3.137) This study is the first to compare the rewards of publishing in predatory […]
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B – A survey on predatory publications25 September 2017Moher D, Shamseer L, Cobey K, et al. Stop this waste of people, animals and money. Nature 2017;549:23-25 Predatory journals have shoddy reporting and include papers from wealthy nations. The […]
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B – Improving transparency at meetings25 September 2017Silberberg SD, Crawford DC, Finkelstein R, et al. Shake up conferences. Nature 2017;548:153-154 The role of scientific conferences, where much work gets its first airing, is crucial for communication. Hence greater […]
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B – Science journalism25 September 2017N. Pitrelli. Science journalism: in search of a new identity. Medical Writing 2017;26(2) Science journalism is undergoing a major transition due to changes in the relationship between science and society […]
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B – Tackling wordiness in medicine and science25 September 2017 B. Every. Writing economically in medicine and science: tips for tackling wordiness. Medical Writing 2017;26(1) In this article, the author describes three ways for medical writers and editors to tackle wordiness: […]
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New Style Author Toolkit!24 September 2017Hot on the heels of the Peer Reviewer toolkit, comes a revised Author Toolkit! In the same style as the PR Toolkit, I have organised all the resources in the […]
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New Style Author Toolkit!24 September 2017Hot on the heels of the Peer Reviewer toolkit, comes a revised Author Toolkit! In the same style as the PR Toolkit, I have organised all the resources in the […]
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B – Scholarly publishing like a bubble21 September 2017Bariç H, Baždariç K, Glasnoviç A, et al. Why scholarly publishing might be a bubble. Croatian Medical Journal 2017;58(1):1-3(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2017.58.1) Scholarly publishing is expanding in all directions, like a bubble. […]
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B – What is PubMed now?21 September 2017Anderson K. A confusion of journals – what is PubMed now? The Scholarly Kitchen September 7, 2017 PubMed Central used to be a credentialing system, an online port of the MEDLINE […]
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B – Manuscript submission systems21 September 2017Hartley J, Cabanac G. The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process. Learned Publishing 2017;30(2):167-172(doi: 10.1002/leap.1092)The authors described the frustrations that many authors feel when using manuscript submission […]
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B – Senior scientists victim of predatory journals21 September 2017Cobey K. Illegitimate journals scam even senior scientists. Nature September 7, 2017;549:7 The author has seen a litany of researchers preyed on by predatory journals, even those who recognize a […]
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B – Core competencies for scientific editors21 September 2017Moher D, Galipeau J, Alam S, et al. Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement. BMC Medicine 2017;15:167(doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0927-0) The authors describe the development of a minimum […]