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| Citation statistics |
| I just came across a post from Coturnix in which he refers to a nice little piece of software which uses Google Scholar to calculate some citation statistics. I went and downloaded Publish or Perish right away and tried ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 04 October 2007 - 17:21:13 |
| A unified scholarly database is not a monopoly |
| It has been the main argument against unifying scholarly literature and data in a single database that monoplies are always bad. I won't go into any political arguments here. Markets have their place, but they also have ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 22:10:44 |
| Measuring editors' performance objectively |
| Editors of schorarly, peer-reviewed journals often claim that somehow their choosiness is the most important verdict on the quality of a scientific manuscript. Points in case are Nature Neuroscience's peer-review policy,...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 05 July 2008 - 12:42:51 |
| Closed access is when you can't read your own article |
| This is just amazing. First, we get invited to submit articles to the Journal of Neurogenetics for a special issue for the retirement of my thesis advisor Martin Heisenberg. Then so many people want to write in his honor...[more] |
| open access paper science publishing |
| Posted on Wednesday 07 January 2009 - 18:32:02 |
| PLoS ONE is online |
| Finally, yesterday the long-awaited new online science publishing experiment PLoS ONE has gone online. Head on over there, check the new articles out, register and participate! This revolutionary online project will stan...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 21 December 2006 - 10:29:08 |
| Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine |
 via Bill Hooker.If you don't get it, because you spent the last few weeks in a cave or something, read here, here, here, here and of course here. UPDATE: Latest coverage: Bad Science!...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 11 May 2009 - 09:46:01 |
| PLoS ONE: A revolution for scientific publishing? |
| Very soon, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) will launch PLoS ONE, which may be considered a revolution in science publishing. Until recently, scientific primary literature ("papers") were published in one of approx. ...[more] |
| PLoS PLoS One science publishing |
| Posted on Friday 17 November 2006 - 14:27:18 |
| PLoS One largest journal in the world 2010? |
| Managing Editor of PLoS One, Peter Binfield, recently published a paper entitled "PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics"in which he outlines some of the recent upgrades at PLoS One and futur...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 26 June 2009 - 15:13:42 |
| PLoS One a success |
| I just learned from the PLoS One mailing list that the new open-access platform PLoS One seems to be a huge success with researchers. Over 300 published articles and over 1000 submitted manuscripts only in the first 5 mo...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 03 May 2007 - 14:23:12 |
| Nature: PLoS a threatening success |
| Coturnix alerts me to the fact that I'm late for a party yet again (as usual). Apparently, Nature is feeling the PLoS competition breathing down its neck. This can be seen in a Nature news article entitled "...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 04 July 2008 - 14:12:32 |