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B – To be an editor is to live dangerously6 September 2012Van Der Weyden MB. On being the Editor of the Medical Journal of Australia: Living dangerously. Mens Sana Monographs 2012;10(1):150-157(doi: 10.4103/0973-1229.91295) Editorial independence is crucial for viability of a journal […]
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B – Ending honorary authorship5 September 2012Greenland P, Fontanarosa PB. Ending honorary authorship. Science 2012;337:1019(doi: 10.1126/science.1224988) Academic institutions, funders, and publishers are exploring new ways to clarify authorship attribution, and many journals have updated their policies […]
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B – Science writers should not fear jargon3 September 2012Quirk T. Writers should not fear jargon. Nature 2012;487:407 Specialized terms capture the complexity and specificity of scientific concepts. The truth tends to be complicated, and jargon offers its most […]
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B – Quality of peer review in biomedical journals3 September 2012Gasparyan AY, Kitas GD. Best peer reviewers and the quality of peer review in biomedical journals. Croatian Medical Journal 2012;53(4):386-389(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2012.53.386) Evidence supporting peer review as a guarantor of the […]
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B – New COPE guidelines3 September 2012Wager E, Kleinert S. Cooperation between research institutions and journals on research integrity cases: guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Acta Informatica Medica 2012;20(3):136-140(doi: 10.5455/aim.2012.20.136-140) It is important […]
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N – Towards open content mining24 August 2012The use of technology to extract data and meaning by ‘mining’ journal content opens up new areas of research and new ways of answering research questions. Researchers in this emerging […]
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N – How to insult a scientist24 August 2012“Mostly publishes in specialist journals” (i.e. his papers are not good enough for a top journal) and “papers are mostly descriptive” (i.e. her work is boring) are just two of […]
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N – Looking into the future24 August 2012An impressive gathering of academics, editors and technologists gathered at Stanford University (California, USA) in March for a colloquium titled Rethinking the future of science communication. The participants considered the […]
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N – PEERing into access24 August 2012PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research), an EU-funded project to explore the impact of large-scale ‘green’ open access (deposition of peer-reviewed manuscripts in repositories) on “reader access, author […]
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N – Indicators for OA journals24 August 2012One of the criticisms levelled at the Finch report was that it supported the gold model of open access (OA) without also acknowledging concerns about the quality of some open-access […]
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N – Reasons not to be a peer reviewer24 August 2012Despite its failings, peer review remains a fundamental component of science editing and publishing. A recent article in Clinical Chemistry article looked at ways of recruiting and keeping peer reviewers. […]
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N – Choosing a journal24 August 2012Writing a research paper is one thing; getting it published and read is another matter. Choosing a suitable journal has always been a challenge for researchers, but with the increasing […]