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B – The introduction of the 5-year impact factor: does it benefit statistics journal?22 February 2010van Nierop E. The introduction of the 5-year impact factor: does it benefit statistics journals? Statistica Neerlandica 2010;64(1):71-6(doi:10.1111/j.1467-9574.2009.00448.x) Impact factors for statistics journals are low compared with those in other disciplines. In 2008, the Thomson Institute for Scientific Information introduced the 5-year impact factor (IF5), that uses the 5-year window instead of the traditional 2-year […]
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N – Winners of US publishing awards19 February 2010Among the 40 winners of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) are these science related publications: multivolume reference: Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology (John Wiley & Sons); single volume reference: The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics (Springer Publishing Company); journal/best design in print: Physiology (American Physiological Society) ; journal/science, […]
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B – Q&A: Carl Zimmer on writing popular-science books19 February 2010Jones N. Q&A: Carl Zimmer on writing popular-science books. Nature 2010;463:737(doi:10.1038/463737a) Second in a series of five interviews with authors who write science books, Carl Zimmer – with his eight popular-science books – describes how passion has been breeding his popular success. He chooses subjects that other people have not written about but also something […]
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B – Guidance for submission of raw clinical data for publication19 February 2010Hrynaszkiewicz I, Norton ML, Vickers AJ, Altman DG. Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers. BMJ 2010;340:c181. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jan28_1/c181 Many journals and funding bodies require researchers to make their raw data available, but there is a need for guidance on data sharing in clinical medicine. For any data relating […]
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B – Q&A: Peter Atkins on writing textbooks19 February 2010Opinion. Q&A: Peter Atkins on writing textbooks. Nature 2010;463:612 An interview to Peter Atkins, who wrote the classic textbook Physical Chemistry, first published in 1978. It is the first of five interviews with authors of science books. According to Atkins, the author of a good science textbook should imagine himself as a student and capture […]
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B – Are you an honest scientist? Truthfulness in science should be an iron law, not a vague aspiration18 February 2010Editorial. Are you an honest scientist? Truthfulness in science should be an iron law, not a vague aspiration. Medical Hypotheses 2009;73:633-5(doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.05.009) In the last 20 years there has been a progressive decline in the honesty of scientific communications. In science truth should be the primary value, and truthfulness the core evaluation. Everyone should be honest […]
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B – Bibliometrics, impact factors and manual therapy: balancing the science and the art15 February 2010Smith DR, Rivett DA. Bibliometrics, impact factors and manual therapy: balancing the science and the art. Manual Therapy 2009;14(4):456-9(doi:10.1016/j.math.2008.11.004) History of bibliometrics is presented and description of the most widely known method, citation analysis, is described. Impact factors have today a powerful influence in the publishing of scientific research articles. As impact factor calculation is […]
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B- Ethical issues in publishing.10 February 2010Price R. Editorial. Ethical issues in publishing. Radiography 2009;15(2):95-6(doi:10.1016/j.radi.2009.03.001) Research involving human subjects and including identifiable human material and data (images, photographs, names, initials, hospital numbers) should comply with the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki. Editors have the responsibility to ensure that research articles submitted for publication meet these standards. No information should […]
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B – The development of a ranking tool for refereed journals in which nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work10 February 2010Crookes PA, Reis SL, Jones SC. The development of a ranking tool for refereed journals in which nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work. Nurse Education Today. In press(doi:10.1016/i.nedt.2009.09.016) Publication in quality journals has long been a criterion for measuring academic performance. For some time the primary tools for assessing “journal quality” have been the […]
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B – Publishing in accounting journals: a fair game?10 February 2010Moizer P. Publishing in accounting journals: a fair game? Accounting, organizations and society 2009; 34(2):285-304(doi:10.1016/j.aos.2008.08.003) In social sciences authors, reviewers and editors adopted the criterion that a quality researcher publishes in quality journals. This paper considers what is the purpose of publishing in academic journals and what are the motivations of the above mentioned parties. […]
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B – Successful publishing: how to get your paper accepted.10 February 2010Audio RA, Stahel RA, Aapro MS et al. Review. Successful publishing: how to get your paper accepted. Surgical Oncology 2009;18(4):350-6(doi:10.1016/j.suronc.2008.09.001) Starting from an historical perspective, ethical issues in publishing are discussed and technical suggestions on how to get the final draft accepted for publication are outlined.The rejection of a manuscript is a frustrating experience and […]
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B – Editorial. Scientific fraud: action needed in China.10 February 2010Editorial. Scientific fraud action neeeded in China. The Lancet. 2010; 9709(375):94(doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60030-X) Editors at Acta Crystallographica Section E alerted the scientific community to a fraud involving papers they had published in 2007. It is surprising that wrongdoing evaded detection during the peer-review process and that the truth was discovered very slowly. The China’s Government controls almost […]
