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B – Are journal editors an anachronism?6 December 2011Davis P. Have journal editors become anachronisms? Scholarly Kitchen blog 2011, 19 SeptemberAre journal editors an anachronism? On the Guardian a recurring revolutionary theme has been recently reported: publishing must be taken back from editors and the institutions and returned to the people. In this blog post it is discussed why we still need editors […]
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B – How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct6 December 2011Wager E. How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct. Notfall+Rettungsmedizin German Interdisciplinary Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011, 30 October:1-3(doi: 10.1007/s10049-011-1543-8) Editors of science journals are sometimes reluctant to retract articles. Reasons may include concerns about litigation or about effects a retraction might have on the reputation of a journal. Editors should work to […]
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N – Wolters Kluwer acquires Medknow5 December 2011Medknow Publications, an open-access publisher based in Mumbai, India, has been acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health, the home of Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins, UpToDate and Ovid, and other brands. Medknow has built its reputation through alliances with professional societies, and Wolters Klower sees the acquisition as a way of increasing locally written content and incorporating […]
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B – Reproducible research in computational science5 December 2011Peng RD. Reproducible research in computational science. Science 2011;334(1226)(doi: 10.1126/science.1213847) Computational science has led to exciting new developments in many scientific areas. The availability of large public databases has allowed for researchers to make meaningful scientific contributions. Replication is the ultimate standard by which the value of scientific claims is assessed, particularly when full independent […]
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B- Making the journal abstract more concrete29 November 2011Hartley J. Making the journal abstract more concrete. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2011;43(1):110-115(doi: 10.3138/jsp.43.1.110) Abstracts in social science journals have been criticized in the past for being imprecise. They need to be more concrete. Readers need to know in which discipline a study has taken place, how many and what kinds of participants have been […]
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B – Costs and benefits of transitions to gold open access25 November 2011Jubb M. Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications. Liber Quarterly 2011;21(1):102-104 This article reports on a study investigating the drivers, costs and benefits of potential ways to increase access to scholarly journals. A detailed and authorative analysis of how it could be achieved identifying five different scenarios over […]
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B – Performance of scientific peer reviewers25 November 2011Callaham M, McCulloch C. Longitudinal trends in the performance of scientific peer reviewers. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2011;57(2):141-148 Editors at the Annals of Emerging Medicine rated the quality of every review performed by journal’s reviewers during a 14-year longitudinal study. Results demonstrated slow but steady deterioration of most peer reviewers’ performance on validated quality scores […]
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B – Peer reviews: make them public25 November 2011Mietchen D. Peer reviews: make them public. Nature 2011;473(452)(doi:10.1038/473452b) A public-review policy would help editors and increase a journal’s reputation, particularly if others in the field publicly shared their own relevant observations. Public reviews, including those of rejected manuscripts, would also provide an incentive for authors to submit their work only when it is ready, […]
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B – Peer review accuracy: cooperation between referees and authors25 November 2011Leek JT, Taub MA, Pineda FJ. Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. PLoS ONE 2011;6(11):e26895doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026895 Researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published results of a peer review simulation game designed to test the effects of open vs. closed review on reviewer accuracy.Through both theoretical modeling and their game, played […]
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B – Public access and use of health research: a NIH study25 November 2011O’Keeffe J, Willinsky J, Maggio L. Public access and use of health research: an exploratory study of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy using interviews and surveys of health personnel. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2011;13(4):e97doi:10.2196/jmir.1827 In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy mandated open access for publications […]
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B – The virtues of correct citation25 November 2011Mertens S, Baethge C. The virtues of correct citation: careful referencing is important but is often neglected even in peer reviewed articles. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 2011;108(33):550-552 doi:10.3238/arztebl.2011.0550 References in scientific publications often contain errors, such as their choice and placing. The following mistakes can appear: the source does not support the statement (quotation error); the […]
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B – Integration of data and publications25 November 2011Reilly S, Schallier W, Schrimpf S. et al. Report on integration of data and publications. Alliance for Permanent Access. ODE Project 2011, 17 oct. As part of the ODE (Opportunities for Data Exchange) project the report presents current opinions from numerous sources to reveal opportunities for supporting a more connected and integrated scholarly record. Four […]
