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B – UK scientific papers rank first in citations6 December 2011Marshall E, Travis J. U.K. Scientific papers rank first in citations. Science 2011, October 28;334:443 The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills released a citation analysis that found that […]
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B – Are journal editors an anachronism?6 December 2011Davis P. Have journal editors become anachronisms? Scholarly Kitchen blog 2011, 19 SeptemberAre journal editors an anachronism? On the Guardian a recurring revolutionary theme has been recently reported: publishing must […]
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B – How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct6 December 2011Wager E. How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct. Notfall+Rettungsmedizin German Interdisciplinary Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011, 30 October:1-3(doi: 10.1007/s10049-011-1543-8) Editors of science journals are sometimes reluctant to […]
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N – Wolters Kluwer acquires Medknow5 December 2011Medknow Publications, an open-access publisher based in Mumbai, India, has been acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health, the home of Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins, UpToDate and Ovid, and other brands. Medknow […]
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B – Reproducible research in computational science5 December 2011Peng RD. Reproducible research in computational science. Science 2011;334(1226)(doi: 10.1126/science.1213847) Computational science has led to exciting new developments in many scientific areas. The availability of large public databases has allowed […]
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B- Making the journal abstract more concrete29 November 2011Hartley J. Making the journal abstract more concrete. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2011;43(1):110-115(doi: 10.3138/jsp.43.1.110) Abstracts in social science journals have been criticized in the past for being imprecise. They need […]
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B – Costs and benefits of transitions to gold open access25 November 2011Jubb M. Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications. Liber Quarterly 2011;21(1):102-104 This article reports on a study investigating the drivers, costs and benefits […]
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B – Performance of scientific peer reviewers25 November 2011Callaham M, McCulloch C. Longitudinal trends in the performance of scientific peer reviewers. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2011;57(2):141-148 Editors at the Annals of Emerging Medicine rated the quality of every […]
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B – Peer reviews: make them public25 November 2011Mietchen D. Peer reviews: make them public. Nature 2011;473(452)(doi:10.1038/473452b) A public-review policy would help editors and increase a journal’s reputation, particularly if others in the field publicly shared their own […]
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B – Peer review accuracy: cooperation between referees and authors25 November 2011Leek JT, Taub MA, Pineda FJ. Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. PLoS ONE 2011;6(11):e26895doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026895 Researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published results of […]
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B – Public access and use of health research: a NIH study25 November 2011O’Keeffe J, Willinsky J, Maggio L. Public access and use of health research: an exploratory study of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy using interviews and surveys […]
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B – The virtues of correct citation25 November 2011Mertens S, Baethge C. The virtues of correct citation: careful referencing is important but is often neglected even in peer reviewed articles. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 2011;108(33):550-552 doi:10.3238/arztebl.2011.0550 References in scientific […]
