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B- Predictive validity of editorial decisions2 March 2011Bornmann L, Mutz R, Marx W et al. A multilevel modelling approach to investigating the predictive validity of editorial decisions: do the editors of a high profile journal select manuscripts that are highly cited after publication? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A (Statistics in Society) 2011;174(Part 4):1-23 Scientific journals need not only […]
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B – E-publication bias2 March 2011Krag Jakobsen A, Christensen R, Persson R et al. And now, e-publication bias. BMJ 2010;340:c2243(doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2243) In open access (OA) publishing scholarly communication is made available free 0f charge on the Internet. In biomedical research, authors or sponsors often pay a fee to a publisher to enable immediate free online access. Other journals use a […]
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B – Is open peer review the fairest system?2 March 2011Groves T. Is open peer review the fairest system? Yes. BMJ 2010;341:c6424(doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6424) The author (deputy editor at the BMJ) argues that telling authors who has reviewed their paper has helped to make the process fairer. Open peer review at the BMJ currently means that all reviewers sign their reports, declare their competing interests, and […]
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B- What price quality?1 March 2011Lyle K. What price quality? Overseas outsourcing of editorial services. SfEP report; February 2011 A report, compiled by Kathleen Lyle, a founder member of the SfEP (Society for Editors and Proofreaders), offers a valuable insight into the outsourcing of editorial work to overseas suppliers. In 2010 the SfEP asked members to report their experiences of […]
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B – Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing15 February 2011Matarese V. Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing: insights from the First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2010;46(4):451-5 doi: 10.4415/ANN_10_04_14 At the First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing (14-16 April, 2010), editors of leading biomedical journals discussed aspects of scientific reporting that favor acceptance or […]
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B – Women’s underrepresentation in science15 February 2011Ceci SJ, Williams WM. Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America February 7, 2011 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014871108 To better understand women’s underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science and its causes, a review of claims of discrimination in the past 20 years and […]
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B – Mimicry in science?15 February 2011Bornmann L. Mimicry in science? Scientometrics 2011;(86):173-7doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0222-8 Scientists apply strategies that should enable them to comply to bibliometric accountability and to secure funds to their own research. Some changes in scientists’ publication behaviour have been reported in the literature: they thend to do research in accordance with the mainstream in their fields and avoid […]
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Wiley Open Access7 February 2011On 1 February 2011 Wiley announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a programme of open access journals, publishing primary research in a range of subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences, including neuroscience, microbiology, ecology, and evolution. The new journals are being launched in collaboration with a group of international professional and scholarly […]
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New social sciences network7 February 2011Socialsciencespace is a new online network, set up with the objective of enhancing the value and relevance of social sciences. It aims to bring together researchers, funders, societies, think tanks, policy makers and government to explore, share and debate the major issues in social science. The digital resource, launched by publisher SAGE in association with […]
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Hey, you, get off of my cloud?7 February 2011Cloud computing is widely seen as the top technological priority for the coming 12 months, with an ever-increasing number of public cloud providers, such as Google and Dropbox. According to a Gartner report of January, 2011 could be the ‘Year of Cloud’. But Vaultium, provider of online file-sharing solutions, has warned that businesses risk falling […]
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UK inquiry into peer review7 February 2011The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the operation and effectiveness of the peer review process. Issues it is likely to examine include: peer review’s strengths and weaknesses as a quality control mechanism for scientists, publishers and the public; measures to strengthen it; its value and use in advancing and […]
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The author–-editor partnership7 February 2011The Society for Editors and Proofreaders hosts its first-ever seminar at the London Book Fair on 13 April 2011. The seminar, entitled The partnership between author and editor, will explore how the relationship between author, in-house editor and freelance editor can work to mutual advantage. The panel comprises two trios, one in fiction and the […]
