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B – Avoiding plagiarism5 December 2012Roig M. Avoiding unethical writing practices. Food and Chemical Toxicology 2012;50(10):3385-3387(doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2012.06.043) It has been noted that more articles have been published with the word “plagiarism” in their title since […]
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B – Measuring the societal impact of research4 December 2012Bornmann L. Measuring the societal impact of research. EMBO reports 2012;13(8):673-676(doi: 10.1038/embor.2012.99) While research is less and less assessed on scientific impact alone, the increasingly important contributions of science to […]
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B – Authorship disagreements4 December 2012Dance A. Who’s on first? Nature 2012;489:591-593(doi: 10.1038/nj7417-591a) When scientists collaborate on an experiment and a paper, it can be hard to decide who gets the credit and how much. […]
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B – Selection of journals by A&I services4 December 2012Scott-Lichter D. New journal selection by A&Is – still valuable after all these years. Learned Publishing 2012;25:245-246(doi: 10.1087/20120401) Well-established and carefully crafted abstracting and indexing (A&I) services are still very […]
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B – Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices29 November 2012Loan FA. Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and choices. Webology 2012;9(1) A study was conducted to identify the impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and […]
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B – Anatomy of open access publishing27 November 2012Laakso M, Björk B. Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure. BMC Medicine 2012;10:124(doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124) This is the first study to provide comprehensive gold […]
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B – Ghostwriting27 November 2012Bosch X, Ross JS. Ghostwriting: research misconduct, plagiarism or fool’s gold? The American Journal of Medicine 2012;125(4):324-326(doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.07.015) Ghostwriting and guest authorship practices are thought predominantly to occur when academic […]
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B – How to acknowledge crediting contributors27 November 2012Rohlfing T, Poline JB. Why shared data should not be acknowledged on the author byline. Neuroimage 2012;59(4):4189-95 According to this article, the author byline should not be used to acknowledge […]
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B – Authorship problems in scholarly journals27 November 2012Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Kitas GD. Authorship problems in scholarly journals: considerations for authors, peer reviewers and editors. Rheumatology International 2012 Nov 4 (Epub)(doi: 10.1007/s00296-0’12-2582-2) Authorship problems in scholarly journals […]
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B – Duplicate publication and plagiarism27 November 2012Maina S, Di Napoli M. Duplicate publication and plagiarism: is RHC safe? Reviews in Health Care 2012;3(4):225-227 While plagiarism obviously represents scientific misconduct, the so-called “self-plagiarism”, or duplicate publication, is more controversial. […]
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N – The life of a Nature paper11 October 2012Watch a new video from Nature, explaining the life of a scientific paper, from the lab notebook to the published article and beyond. ;
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B – Open access publishing models27 September 2012Morgan C, Campbell B, Teleen T. The role of the academic journal publisher and open access publishing models. International Studies Perspectives 2012;13(3):228-234(doi: 10.1111/insp..2012.13.issue-3/issuetoc) This article explores the role and value […]