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B – Externally cited impact factor for Non-ISI journals17 January 2008Leydesdorff L. Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and journal evaluations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008;59(2):278-87. Non-ISI journals (i.e. journals that are not included in the ISI dataset) can be evaluated with an “externally cited impact factor”, by using ISI databases anyway. Actually, in order to […]
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B – Publishing perils include single-blind review17 January 2008Williams L. Publishing perils include single-blind review. Physics Today 2007; 60(11)12. The Letters section contained a discussion about the exacting and often confusing electronic paper submission process as an obstacle to getting published. Here Williams states that a much more important and corrosive impediment to publication is single-blind peer review, as this system has a […]
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B – Journal to support astronomy outreach17 January 2008Jeandron M. Journal to support astronomy outreach. Physics World 2007; 20(12)9. The International Astronomical Union (IAU)launched a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal designed to support the burgeoning field of astronomy communication. Communicating Astronomy with the Public (CAP) contains research papers written by experienced astronomy communicators as well as news, reviews and opinion articles. The current issue, […]
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B – Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics14 January 2008Towards Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics. Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party. CERN, Geneva 2007 High Energy Physics (HEP) pioneered OA through “repositories” containingcollections of “pre-prints” freely accessible on the Internet, but there still is a strong consensus in the scientific community about the need for high-quality journals that provide: quality control through […]
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B – The E-only Tipping Point for Journals6 January 2008Johnson RK,Luther J. The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone. Washington. Association of Research Library, 2007 This report issued by the US Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in December 2007, examines the issues associated with the migration from dual-format publishing to electronic-only publication of journals.It provides a synthetic analysis […]
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B – Periodical Price Survey 2007: Serial Wars28 December 2007Van Orsdel L C, Born K. Periodical Price Survey 2007: Serial Wars. Library Journal 2007 As the open access movement stands now alone as an alternative to the existing system of journal publication, which most say is unsustainable as it is, publishers of scientific, technical and medical journal vigorously defend the adequacy of the current […]
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B – Assuring the confidentiality of shared electronic health records21 December 2007McGilchrist M, Sullivan F, Kalra D. Assuring the confidentiality of shared electronic health records. BMJ 2007;335:1223-1224 (15 December)doi:10.1136/bmj.39421.544063.BE In health care, the collection and storage of sensitive personal data is essential for delivering a high quality clinical service and for research, that is why, considered the recent scandals related to losses of sensitive data, we […]
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B – Is Content of Medical Journals Related to Advertisements?19 December 2007Vlassov V V. Is Content of Medical Journals Related to Advertisements? Case-control Study. Croat Med J. 2007;48:786-90doi:10.3325/cmj.2007.6.786 A case-control study was performed on a convenience sample of 7 journals subscribed by Central Medical Library in Moscow, 4 international and 3 Russian peer-reviewed journals to assess the relationship between the content of the journal and paid […]
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B – Monuments and instruments7 December 2007Marris E. Monuments and instruments. Nature 2007;450:592-593 doi: 10.1038/450592a Architecture has always been used to make statements about what science is and how it should be done, and consequently the architecture of buildings influences the fruit of researchers’ work. From the concept of the “dry” or “wet” lab to the openness of spaces and the […]
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B – An exploratory study of Google Scholar6 December 2007Mayr P, Walter A K. An exploratory study of Google Scholar. Online Information Review 2007;31(6):814-830DOI: 10.1108/14684520710841784 The purpose of the paper is to discuss the new scientific search service Google Scholar (GS), born to search exclusively scholarly documents, and to test its functionality. The study, based on queries against different journal lists, showed some deficiencies […]
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B – The strike rate index: a new index for journal quality2 December 2007Barendse W. The strike rate index: a new index for journal quality based on journal size and the h-index of citations. Biomedical Digital Libraries 2007, 4:3 doi:10.1186/1742-5581-4-3 http://www.bio-diglib.com/content/4/1/3 Measuring quality in science is a difficult and controversial process. A uniform method that can be applied across all fields should be desirable. The quantification is generally […]
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B -An Incentive Solution to the Peer Review Problem2 December 2007Hauser M, Fehr E (2007) An Incentive Solution to the Peer Review Problem. PLoS Biol 5(4): e107 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050107 http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0050107&ct=1 Despite the Internet facilities, peer review generally continues to be a long process. The authors of this note propose a system of incentives and punishments for reviewers according to times of their response to the editorial […]
