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ETHICAL ISSUES2 November 2006Couzin J, Unger K. 2006. Scientific misconduct. Cleaning up the paper trial. Science 312:38-42 Using Thomson Scientific’s ISI Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar, Science found dozens of citations of retracted papers in fields from physics to cancer research to plant biology. Efforts to correct scientific literature are often uneven and chaotic. Like ghosts riffling […]
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RESEARCH EVALUATION1 November 2006Cockerill M. 2006. Identifying the most important research – Is there more to life than Impact Factor? The Write Stuff 15 (3):82-84 Impact factor has become one of the most debated themes on research evaluation. In this article published in the official journal of the European Medical Writers Association (www.emwa.org), Cockerill exoplores the developments in […]
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POLITICS OF PUBLISHING31 October 2006Wager E. 2006. Publishing clinical trial results: The future beckons. PLoS Clin Trials 1(6): e31. Why do we publish clinical trials results? Is the present format for reporting results from randomized clinical trials in peer-reviewed journals still efficient and effective? The advantages offered by alternative models of publications are presented and the implications for trial […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES20 October 2006Farthing, M. J. G. 2006. Authors and Publication Practices. Science and Engineering Ethics. 12(1):41. Not only authors can perpetrate research and publication misconduct, but journal editors and reviewers may also breach ethical standards (particularly with respect to conflicts of interest). The progression towards ‘open’ peer review is a result of the need for increased transparency. […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006García Landa L. G. 2006. Academic Language Barriers and Language Freedom. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):61.The current trend to publish research predominantly in English acts as an obstacle to many non-English-speaking academics in poor countries wishing to access and publish scientific literature. A case study at the National Autonomous University of Mexico examines these […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006Burrough-Boenisch, J. 2006. Negotiable Acceptability: Reflections on the Interactions between Language Professionals in Europe and NNS 1 Scientists Wishing to Publish in English. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):31. This paper discusses what affects the criteria of acceptability of language professionals when working with a non-native speaking author before submission of their papers in English. […]
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PUBLISHING, LANGUAGE AND WRITING20 October 2006Ammon U. 2006. Language Planning for International Scientific Communication: An Overview of Questions and Potential Solutions. Current Issues in Language Planning. 7(1):1. The recent history of international science communication is discussed in the context of possible improvements to language planning. With English increasing becoming the language choice in today’s scientific communication, the paper analyses the […]
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PUBLISHING, INFORMATION29 September 2006Seringhaus M, Gerstein M. 2006. The death of the scientific paper. The Scientist. 20(9):25.The basic currency of science is still the research article, but modern laboratory research results yield enormous data sets, straining the established article framework. Moreover, isolated findings or negative results are seldom published at all, so it is useful to preserve data […]
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INFORMATION, PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING29 September 2006Rovner S. L. 2006. Online archives on a bumpy road. Chem. Eng. News. 84 (33):50-53 The author explains what digital repositories are, how they are being used at LANL and CERN, and explores the reasons for their very limited take-up in chemistry and how publishers are responding. http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/84/8433sci1.html
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ETHICAL ISSUES28 September 2006D. Cyranoski, Named and shamed, Nature, 2006, 441:392-393. Report on how scientific misconduct is dealt with in China, including an unofficial ‘name-and-shame’ website called New Threads (http://www.xys.org/), whichis intended to expose bad science and raise the profile of research ethics in China.
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING28 September 2006Michael Banks, of the MPI for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, has calculated the now familiar h-index (or Hirsch index) for some chemical compounds and topics in physics. He proposes a new measure, m, which is the h-index for a topic divided by the number of years since it first appeared in print. Gallium nitride […]
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21 September 2006Johnson RK. 2006. Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with theInternet? The Journal of Neuroscience 26(37):9349-9351. The exchange of information enabled by the Internet has swept away many limitations on research and learning and promises to fundamentally change the conduct of science. For the first time in history,we have a practical opportunity for efficient, unlimited sharing […]
