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B – Twitter: a guide for academics and researchers16 March 2012Mollett A, Moran D, Dunleavy P. Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities. Impact of social sciences: maximizing the impact of academic research, LSE Public Policy Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. LSE Research Online September 2011 Twitter is a form of free micro-blogging which allows users to send […]
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B – Mathematicians’ author rights12 March 2012Fowler KK. Do mathematicians get the author rights they want? Notices of the AMS 2012;59(3):436-438(doi: 10.1090/noti808) This article identifies the rights mathematicians say they want when publishing an article, which rights they often do not get, and how and why an author might keep the important ones. The best suggested solution would be to sign […]
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B – Maximizing journal article visibility and citations12 March 2012Norman ER. Maximizing journal article citation online: readers, robots, and research visibility. Politics & Policy 2012;40(1):1-12(doi: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2011.00342.x) Writing an article for online distributions is different from preparing one for print journals in some small, but important, aspects. This article covers some techniques that authors should consider when submitting to online journals, in order to: choose […]
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B – AuthorAID in the Eastern Mediterranean1 March 2012Shashok K, Handjani F. Enhancing the quality of research publication: AuthorAID in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Journal of Tehran University Heart Center 2010;5(4):169-171 Throughout the Eastern Mediterranean region, infrastructural, linguistic, economic and even political factors can limit access to English-language resources for the development and training of researchers, science editors, and peer reviewers. This article […]
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B – Self-publishing of Croatian editors1 March 2012Bošnjak L, Puljak L, Vukojević K, et al. Analysis of a number and type of publications that editors publish in their own journals: case study of scholarly journals in Croatia. Scientometrics 2011;86:227-233(doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0207-7) This article analysed a number of articles of scholarly Croatian journals to assess how often the editors published their own research articles […]
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B – What factors determine citation counts in chemistry1 March 2012Bornmann L, Schier H, Marx W, et al. What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality? Journal of Informetrics 2012;6(1):11-18(doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.08.004) This study examined the correlation between citation counts of individual papers and a number of factors, using an extensive data set from the field of chemistry. The study found a […]
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B – Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?28 February 2012Habibzadeh F, Shashok K. Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas? Croatian Medical Journal 2011;52(4):576-577(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2011.52.576) Plagiarism can be categorized in two general distinct categories – plagiarism of ideas and plagiarism of text. While in many fields like literature and humanities the author and hence the wordings are the most important aspect of the article, […]
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B – Social networks in education of health professionals in Bosnia and Herzegovina28 February 2012Masic I, Sivic S. Social networks in education of health professionals in Bosnia and Herzegovina – the role of Pubmed/Medline in improvement of medical sciences. Acta Informatica Medica 2011;19(4):196-202(doi: 10.5455/aim.2011.19.196-202) Social networks provide significant opportunities to researchers, students and professors for spreading medical information and for health education. This article investigates to what extent and […]
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B – Ethical publishing in developing countries28 February 2012Marusic A. Importance of ethical publishing in developing countries. Acta Informatica Medica 2012;20(1):4(doi: 10.5455/aim.2012.20.4-4) Journal editors may be the key figures in increasing the level of research integrity in the scientific community. Ethical publishing is particularly important in small and developing countries, and an important role for editors is the educational role, that is educating […]
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EASE Guidelines22 February 2012EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators of Scientific Articles to be Published in English are now freely available in as many as 20 languages! Two new translations, Croatian and Bosnian, can already be downloaded from EASE redesigned website. EASE Guidelines provide simple, clear advice aimed at making international scientific communication more efficient. We encourage authors […]
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B – Ngram, mapping the language of science17 February 2012Perkowitz S. Mapping the language of science. Physics World October 2011 This article describes Ngram, a free search tool for the written word. Its database contains 500 billion words in 8 languages, taken from the 5 million books that Google has scanned into digital form. Ngram can plot a word incidence as a percentage of […]
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B . Retractions in the medical literature16 February 2012Steen RG. Retractions in the medical literature: how many patients are put at risk by flawed research? Journal of Medical Ethics 2011;37(11):688-692(doi: 10.1136/jme.2011.043133) This article reports evidence that a large number of patients are put at risk by flawed research. The author evaluated 788 retracted English-language articles published from 2000 to 2010, describing new research […]
