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B – Measuring the societal impact of research4 December 2012Bornmann L. Measuring the societal impact of research. EMBO reports 2012;13(8):673-676(doi: 10.1038/embor.2012.99) While research is less and less assessed on scientific impact alone, the increasingly important contributions of science to society should be quantified. The problem begins with defining the “societal impact of research” and how to evaluate societal quality. Research into societal impact is still […]
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B – Authorship disagreements4 December 2012Dance A. Who’s on first? Nature 2012;489:591-593(doi: 10.1038/nj7417-591a) When scientists collaborate on an experiment and a paper, it can be hard to decide who gets the credit and how much. Disagreements often happen when contributors put in similar amounts of effort on different aspects of a project. Journals are increasingly attempting to keep authors in […]
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B – Selection of journals by A&I services4 December 2012Scott-Lichter D. New journal selection by A&Is – still valuable after all these years. Learned Publishing 2012;25:245-246(doi: 10.1087/20120401) Well-established and carefully crafted abstracting and indexing (A&I) services are still very important to a new journal’s success. Publishers and A&Is have a synergistic relationship: publishers supply their content for indexing, while the A&Is index and distribute […]
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B – Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices29 November 2012Loan FA. Impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and choices. Webology 2012;9(1) A study was conducted to identify the impact of the Internet surfing on reading practices and choices of the net generation college students. A sample of 676 students was selected in some Indian colleges. Results reveal that the reading behaviour of […]
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B – Anatomy of open access publishing27 November 2012Laakso M, Björk B. Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure. BMC Medicine 2012;10:124(doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124) This is the first study to provide comprehensive gold open access (OA) measurement for 2010 and 2011. Its primary aim was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals […]
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B – Ghostwriting27 November 2012Bosch X, Ross JS. Ghostwriting: research misconduct, plagiarism or fool’s gold? The American Journal of Medicine 2012;125(4):324-326(doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.07.015) Ghostwriting and guest authorship practices are thought predominantly to occur when academic researchers collaborate with industry, however they also occur within purely academic collaborations. Those practices flourish as they are perceived as slight, easily comprehensible moral failing, […]
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B – How to acknowledge crediting contributors27 November 2012Rohlfing T, Poline JB. Why shared data should not be acknowledged on the author byline. Neuroimage 2012;59(4):4189-95 According to this article, the author byline should not be used to acknowledge shared data. It discusses viable alternatives for crediting non-author contributors, such as citations of papers describing shared data, reference to dataset publications, inclusion in the […]
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B – Authorship problems in scholarly journals27 November 2012Gasparyan AY, Ayvazyan L, Kitas GD. Authorship problems in scholarly journals: considerations for authors, peer reviewers and editors. Rheumatology International 2012 Nov 4 (Epub)(doi: 10.1007/s00296-0’12-2582-2) Authorship problems in scholarly journals are multifaceted. This article overviews common cases of inappropriate authorship (honorary, gift, guest and ghost) and suggests options to solve related problems by authors, reviewers and […]
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B – Duplicate publication and plagiarism27 November 2012Maina S, Di Napoli M. Duplicate publication and plagiarism: is RHC safe? Reviews in Health Care 2012;3(4):225-227 While plagiarism obviously represents scientific misconduct, the so-called “self-plagiarism”, or duplicate publication, is more controversial. It can include: same study sample, control data, or study outcomes; the so-called “salami slicing” (a large study sliced into several smaller studies); multiple submission; […]
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N – The life of a Nature paper11 October 2012Watch a new video from Nature, explaining the life of a scientific paper, from the lab notebook to the published article and beyond. ;
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B – Open access publishing models27 September 2012Morgan C, Campbell B, Teleen T. The role of the academic journal publisher and open access publishing models. International Studies Perspectives 2012;13(3):228-234(doi: 10.1111/insp..2012.13.issue-3/issuetoc) This article explores the role and value of the academic journal publisher as paradigms of open access gain momentum and challenge the standards of paid subscription models. The two main versions of […]
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B – Authorship, scholarship and ergonomics27 September 2012Smith DR. Authorship, scholarship and ergonomics. Le Travail Humain 2012;72(4):397-403 Authorship represents a contentious issue for modern academics, researchers and journal editors. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in publications with significant numbers of authors. Various methods have now been proposed for establishing author credit, although no Uniform Requirements have yet been […]
