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| Unquestioning dogma: the gatekeepers of science |
 This morning my friend Ramy reminded us of the recent spats over two PLoS One publications (Darwinius, Red Sea) and how they were used to question the 'reputation' of PLoS One as a journal. Of course, it is about as mea...[more] |
| GlamMagz publishing reputation |
| Posted on Monday 06 December 2010 - 10:09:40 |
| Academic publishing = economic parasitism |
| You just have to read the latest piece on scholarly publishing in The Guardian! The title is: "Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist". Here some of the best tidbits:...[more] |
| Guardian publishing economics scholarly publishing |
| Posted on Tuesday 30 August 2011 - 14:05:03 |
| Nature: impact factor in China |
| I just commented on a letter to the journal Nature on the use of Thomson Reuter's impact factor in China. Given the moderation of comments at Nature, I think I better post a copy of the letter and my comment here as well...[more] |
| impact factor publishing china |
| Posted on Thursday 22 September 2011 - 10:11:10 |
| Competition in science: when is it too much of a good thing? |
| Clearly, competition is a great incentive and I think everyone can attest to that and not only from personal experience. If competition is lacking, all kinds of bad things tend to happen. For instance, in scholarly publi...[more] |
| open access publishing boycott elsevier libraries |
| Posted on Thursday 09 February 2012 - 19:01:30 |
| SWIB11: What Needs to Happen in a Scholarly Publishing Reform? |
| Below is the video of my presentation at SWIB11 late last year now posted on SciVee. Unfortunately, you can't see any of the slides I show, because the genius behind the camera only showed the most irrelevant component o...[more] |
| video publishing libraries swib11 |
| Posted on Friday 10 February 2012 - 18:13:59 |
| Microsoft, Google not interested in developing alert service for scientists |
| I've described before the awful situation most scientists face when they try to follow the scientific literature. For me, it involves more than 10h of searching per week with at most 1-3h left to actually read what I fou...[more] |
| google microsoft publishing alert service literature scholarly publishing |
| Posted on Tuesday 08 November 2011 - 11:15:47 |
| How to provide access to all publicly funded science - and save a few billions very year |
| A few days ago, I've reported on the sevices of the library at my new institution, the University of Regensburg. Besides already archiving our raw data and getting ready to host Git repositories with our software (both c...[more] |
| open access libraries publishing Finch Report |
| Posted on Monday 14 January 2013 - 13:33:30 |
| Enjoy our Open Science triple whammy last week. |
| Ok, not all of you will enjoy it, as some of the triple whammy last week was in German, but at least it's a good thing that the general media are slowly picking up on the efforts of scientists to make their work accessib...[more] |
| open science open access publishing media wikipedia radio newpaper |
| Posted on Monday 20 August 2012 - 21:15:01 |
| Journal rank alive and well at DFG site visit |
| I spent the past two days in Cologne on a site visit for a a large collaborative research center. I sat on a panel of 10 reviewers who reviewed a total of 18 grant proposals. The DFG asked us to not only judge the merit ...[more] |
| journal rank impact factor publishing GlamMagz |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 April 2013 - 22:16:35 |
| How to increase your Impact Factor by 40% |
| In what might become a review article, I've recently been collecting published data about Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor (IF). So far, this data suggests that the IF predicts retractions better than it predicts citation...[more] |
| impact factor current biology publishing citations |
| Posted on Tuesday 03 January 2012 - 19:17:42 |