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B – The extent of influence2 May 2009Johnston R. The extent of influence: An alternative approach to identifying dominant contributors to a discipline’s literature. Scientometrics. 2009 (78)3: 409-420 10.1007/s11192-007-2015-2 Most studies of scholarly influence within disciplines using citation data do not investigate the extent of an individual’s influence. Using bibliographic data from a series of quadrennial reports into developments in UK geography, […]
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B – Are multi-authorship and visibility related?2 May 2009Iribarren-Maestro I, Lascurain-Sánchez ML, Sanz-Casado E Are multi-authorship and visibility related? Study of ten research areas at Carlos III University of Madrid. Scientometrics 2009 (79)1: 191-200 DOI 10.1007/s11192-009-0412-4 Opinions in the literature on the possible relationship between co-authorship and number of citations vary. The results of this study show that while multi-institutional and multi-national authorship […]
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B – APS copyright policy still no good20 April 2009Landis, Geoffrey A. APS copyright policy still no good. APS News 2009;18(4):5. Letter querying why the American Physical Society’s “improved” copyright policy (ibid. 2009;18(2):8) still demands transfer of copyright on the grounds that “we must have this to continue to provide quality publication” when commercial publishers do not make such a demand. http://www.aps.org/apsnews/ Posted for […]
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In memory of a transformative editor of NATURE19 April 2009Sir John Maddox (or JM), as his colleagues used to refer to him, passed away on the 12th of April 2009. JM first took the reins as the editor of Nature in 1966, served till 1973 and returned in 1980 till November 1995. He was the journal fourth editor. It was during his first stint […]
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B – Past performance, peer review, and project selection12 April 2009van den Besselaar P, Leydesdorff L. Past performance, peer review, and project selection: A case study in the social and behavioral sciences. Sigmetrics*. 2009 Do grant allocation decisions correlate with the pastperformances of the applicants in terms of publications and citations? The findings of the Netherlands Research Council for the Economic and Social Sciences is […]
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Being a Science Editor7 April 2009It’s not a very common job if you’re a science graduate, but if you’re good at English and if you have a passion for the written word, maybe it’s a career that you would enjoy. Being a science editor or sub-editor may not be the most lucrative job in the world but it’s a place […]
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N – Clarity is everything6 April 2009If something is easy to read about, it seems easier to do. The simplicity or complexity with which a task is described affects our attitude towards the task itself and our willingness to do it. Psychologists gave college students information about exercise in either an easy to read font (Arial) or an unfamiliar “brushstroke” font; […]
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B – All data are not created equal2 April 2009Neill Us. All data are not created equal. J Clin Invest 2009; 119: 424-4, doi:10.1172/JCI38802. We continue to screen all figures from accepted manuscripts, and we continue to find irregularities. In several cases, the alterations in the figures led to the discovery of some fundamental problems with the data. Many of the papers suffered from […]
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B – Impact Factor Wars: Episode V-The Empire Strikes Back29 March 2009Brumback RA.Impact Factor Wars: Episode V-The Empire Strikes Back. Journal of Child Neurology, 2009 (24)3: 260-262 DOI: 10.1177/0883073808331366 http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/24/3/260 A really amazing piece on the war of authors and editors to get to the empire of impact factor; cheating and tricks, cutely told in a short story, supported by sound references. Thnks to James Hartley
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N – JAMA gags whistleblowers27 March 2009Whistleblowers who spot undeclared competing interests in papers in the top medical journal JAMA will be told that they must “not reveal this information to third parties or the media while the investigation is under way,” according to an editorial coauthored by JAMA’s editor, Catherine DeAngelis (2009 Mar 20, doi:10.1001/jama.2009.480). The gagging policy comes after […]
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B – NFAIS Best Practices for Journal Article Publishing26 March 2009National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) approved the Best Practices for Journal Article Publishing on February 13, 2009. They wish to disseminate the document widely throughout the Information Community in order to generate discussion and get as much additional input as possible. http://www.nfais.org/Best_Practices_Final_Public.pdf Thanks to James Hartley
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N – Publish in Wikipedia or perish17 March 2009Declan ButlerPublish in Wikipedia or perishJournal to require authors to post in the free online encyclopaedia. Nature News. Published online 16 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1312 http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html Wikipedia, meet RNA. Anyone submitting to a section of the journal RNA Biology will, in the future, be required to also submit a Wikipedia page that summarizes […]
