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B – Peer review delay and selectivity16 June 2010Pautasso M, Schaefer H. Peer review delay and selectivity in ecology journals. Scientometrics 2009;84(2):307-15(doi: 10.1007/s11192-009-0105-z)Relationships among journal reputation, rejection rate, number of submissions received and time from submission to acceptance in 22 ecology/interdisciplinary journals are analyzed. Results show that higher impact factor is positively associated with the number of submissions and that rejection rates are […]
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B – Number of reviewers and editors’ rejection rate16 June 2010Schultz DM. Are three heads better than two? How the number of reviewers and editor behavior affect the rejection rate. Scientometrics 2009;84(2):277-92(doi: 10.1007/s11192-009-0084-0) Five hundred manuscripts submitted to Monthly Weather Review in the years 2007-2008 were examined to investigate whether the number of reviewers used by an editor affects the rate at which manuscripts are […]
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B – Putting gender on the agenda15 June 2010Editorial. Putting gender on the agenda. Nature 2010;465:665 (10 June 2010)(doi:10.1038/465665a) Biomedical reserach continues to use many more male subjects than females in both animal studies and human clinical trials. As a consequence, medicine as it is currently applied to women is less evidence-based than that being applied to men. Some steps can be taken […]
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B – New journal models15 June 2010Cassella M, Calvi L. New journal models and publishing perspectives in the evolving digital environment. IFLA Journal 2010;36(1):7-15(doi: 10.1177/0340035209359559) Open access combined with 2.0 tools is fast changing the traditional journal’s functions and the publisher’s role. The journal is no longer the main referring unit for scholarly output, as it used to be, for scientific, […]
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N – Library outsources proofreading8 June 2010“Real” libraries are struggling for survival in the digital age – but some are fighting fire with fire. The National Library of Wales, for example, is scanning in all its documents relating to Wales. These scans are converted to OCR (optical character recognition) and then need to be proofread. For proofreading, there’s the money-saving possibility […]
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B – Open access biomedical journals in Greece31 May 2010Vlachaki A, Urquhart C. Use of open access journals in biomedicine in Greece. Library Management 2010; 31(1/2):19-26(doi:10.1108/01435121011013368) The impact of open access initiatives on biomedical scientific publishing and scholarly communication in Greece are examined. Findings are preliminary as they come from a longitudinal study that uses bibliometrics, questionnaire surveys and interviews to examine knowledge, awareness […]
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B – Highly cited articles in LIS: analysis of content and authorship31 May 2010Blessinger K and Hrycaj P. Highly cited articles in library and information science: an analysis of content and authorship trends. Library & Information Science Research 2010; 32(2):156-62(doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2009.12.007) Thirty-two high impact journal articles, published in the period 1994-2004 and influential to scholarly communication in library and information sciences (LIS), are identified and examined. In particular, journal […]
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N – Science papers in South Africa31 May 2010Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa has increased its research output and its scientific collaboration with other countries, says an article in Science Watch(http://sciencewatch.com/ana/fea/10mayjunFea/). In March 1995, the country’s scientific profile reflected its isolation from the world community. Since then, its number of published papers and citation impact in various fields has […]
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B – Does a Hierarchy of the Sciences exist?27 May 2010Fanelli D. “Positive” results increase down the hierarchy of the sciences. PLos ONE 2010;5(4):e10068(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010068) The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences in-between is nearly 200 years old. Whether disciplines really differ in hardness and can be ranked accordingly, however, is […]
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B – Are editorial peer reviewers’ recommendations reliable?27 May 2010Kravitz RL, Franks P, Feldman MD et al. Editorial peer reviewers’ recommendations at a general medical journal: are they reliable and do editors care? PLoS ONE 2010; 5(4):e10072 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010072) The relation between reviewers’ publication recommendations and editors’ decisions over a five-year period (2004-2008) at the Journal of General Internal Medicine was examined. Among the 2,264 […]
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N – Publication awards25 May 201014 June 2010 is the closing date for applications for 2010 ALPSP Awards for significant achievement in the field of learned and professional publishing. The awards are for publishing innovation; best new journal; and best ebook publisher. Full details are at http://awards.alpsp.org. Winners will be announced on 9 September. Thanks to Margaret Cooter
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B – Indicators for measuring researchers’ performance25 May 2010Buela-Casal G. Scientific journal impact indexes and indicators for measuring researchers’ performance. Revista de Psicodidactica 2010;15(1):3-19 Scientific productivity is a key factor in granting funding for projects. In the majority of cases, productivity indicators are based on data extracted from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database. The paper describes and classifies the most relevant […]
