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How to draw three-dimensional structures on two-dimensional paper3 April 2007Brecher J. 2006. Graphical representation of stereochemical configuration Pure and Applied Chemistry 78(10):1897-1970. doi:10.1351/pac200678101897 Recommendations are provided for the display of three-dimensional stereochemical information in two-dimensional diagrams in ways that avoid ambiguity and are likely to be understood correctly by all viewers. Examples are provided for all types of stereochemical configuration, with explanation of which […]
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Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data3 April 2007Altman M., King G. 2007. A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data D-Lib Magazine 13(3/4). doi:10.1045/march2007-altman The authors propose a universal standard for citing quantitative data that retains the advantages of print citations, adds other components made possible by, and needed due to, the digital form and systematic nature of quantitative data […]
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Dealing With Deception1 April 2007Beryl Lieff Benderly. 2007. Dealing With Deception. Science. Jan 19 Echoes of the recent Korean stem cell scandal continue to reverberate, most recently in a report commissioned by the journal Science to examine how it can keep from falling victim to future frauds. Finding protection from the perils of potentially disastrous scientific deceptions is an […]
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Three articles on impact factor in BMJ21 March 2007Brown H. 2007. How impact factors changed medical publishing and science. BMJ. 334:561-564. Journal rankings can be maximised by keeping the number of scholarly articles as small as possible, and boosting review content can make journals perform better. But minor manipulation of journal content is not the issue causing concern: ignorance persists about what impact […]
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The future of science is open (access).19 March 2007Hooker B. 2007. The future of science is open (access). APS News 16(2)12 Article surveying open access issues from the perspective of a molecular biologist. Open access archives/repositories and also open access journals are discussed including questions of financing and the desirability of including metadata to develop “open science”: Open (Access + Data + Source […]
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Bid behavior of conference referees16 March 2007Rodriguez MA, Bollen J, Van de Sompel H. 2007. Mapping the bid behavior of conference referees. Journal of Informetrics 1(1):68-82.DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2006.09.006 The article analyses the possible factors influencing the bid behavior of conference referees. For instance, referee fatigue can be responsible for the quality of the peer review process: a valid study may be rejected […]
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Gender Differences in Publication Output13 March 2007Symonds MR, Gemmell NJ, Braisher TL, Gorringe KL, Elgar MA. 2006. Gender Differences in Publication Output: Towards an Unbiased Metric of Research Performance. PLoS ONE 1(1): e127. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000127 The article shows that male scientists publish more than women, bringing into question the fairness of academic selection processes that rely heavily on publication quantity to rank […]
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Computers learn chemistry13 March 2007Van Noorden R. Computers learn chemistry. 2007. Chemistry World. 2 (4) Chemists who trawl through the thousands of chemistry papers published every month must wish their computers could do the job for them and maybe one day they will: that’s the ultimate goal of Project Prospect, an initiative unveiled this month by Royal Society of […]
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Research malpractice in Sweden12 March 2007Schulz WG. 2007. Giving Proper Credit. Chemical & Engineering News 85(12)35-38. Stockholm University has sanctioned an associate professor of chemistry, Armando Córdova, for research misconduct. In a number of cases, the investigation found that Córdova violated scientific ethics in his quest to publish research results in the emerging field of organocatalysis. http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/85/i11/html/8511sci1.html
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Debating the future of physics publishing2 March 2007Harnad J et al. 2007. Debating the future of physics publishing Physics World 29(3)22 Letters relating to the debate on the future of publishing (ibid. 29(1)13-36).John Harnad compares two different approaches to OA, gold OA where the journal charges nothing for reader access and green OA where the journal charges for subscriptions; he considers gold […]
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Highly cited papers previously rejected22 February 2007Campanario JM, Acedo E. 2007. Rejecting highly cited papers: The views of scientists who encounter resistance to their discoveries from other scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Article online in advance of print (6 Feb). DOI:10.1002/asi.20556 A useful survey about the difficulties encountered by scientists to have their own articles […]
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Guidelines on Publication Ethics21 February 2007Graf C, Wager E, Bowman A, Fiack S , Scott-Lichter D, Robinson A. 2007. Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: a Publisher’s Perspective International Journal of Clinical Practice 61 (s152), 1–26. doi:10.1111/j.1742-1241.2006.01230.x These Guidelines describe Blackwell Publishing’s position on the major ethical principles of academic publishing and review factors that may foster ethical behavior or […]
