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 |
The future of scientific publishing |
I'm sure nobody ending up on this obscure blog could have missed the current frenzy about a Nature news article by Declan Butler attacking PLoS. In the meatime, there has been a ...[more] |
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Posted on Monday 07 July 2008 - 14:41:05 |
Journals - the dinosaurs of scientific communication |
The recent kerfuffle caused by Butler's article in Nature seems to have gotten quite a number of stones rolling. What I thought would be a rather slow process seems to be speeding up considerably because of Nature's rath...[more] |
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Posted on Saturday 19 July 2008 - 19:13:40 |
Comment to the editors |
Here's what I have been starting to write to the editors of journals who want me to rate the manuscripts I review according to some subjective standard: ...[more] |
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Posted on Monday 10 May 2010 - 16:43:17 |
As if we needed more evidence |
As if we needed yet more evidence that the way we communicate science is FUBAR! Read this and weep: How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps I was alerted to this article by Bora Zivkovic, who got it from ...[more] |
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Posted on Wednesday 19 August 2009 - 09:47:01 |
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Posted on Thursday 01 January 1970 - 01:00:00 |