Einstein shows: Not only citations count
Publications don't have to be successful immediately. This is shown by an article of Albert Einstein and colleagues that gained importance 85 years after having been published. By Anton Zeilinger.
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PubMed retractions report
The latest report on retracted publications in the PubMed database.
The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science
When researchers collect or select data or statistical analyses until nonsignificant results become significant.
Visions of the future for academic publishing
Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?
Attention decay in science
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. Consequently, the attention that can be devoted to individual papers, measured by their citation counts, is bound to decay rapidly.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
Psychology journal bans P values
A controversial statistical test has finally met its end, at least in one journal.
Authoring scientific papers: a perspective from the trenches
It has taken a while, but the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) have come out with a valuable booklet on authorships of scientific manuscripts. This recommendations, published now also as a special article in the Swiss Medical Weekly, aspire to serve as a practical guide for principal investigators confronted with the task of assigning authorships to the individuals contributing to scientific manuscripts.
Journal publishes 200-word papers
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science
Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.
What constitutes a citable scientific work?
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
Academic journals: the most profitable obsolete technology in history
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
What counts as an academic publication?
While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.
Science journals have passed their expiration date
Technology has helped so many industries evolve over the past few decades, but scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665.
Spending on subscriptions to journals rises by up to 50%
Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push.
Author Insights 2014
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
The cost of knowledge
Intransparenz bei den Bibliotheksausgaben von Schweizer Hochschulen
How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?
I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.
How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing
The culture of scientific publishing is complex. Some problems need technical solutions, but others require a cultural change within academia.
How Google Science could transform academic publishing
Google is allegedly working on a free, open access platform for the research, collaboration and publishing of peer-reviewed scientific journals. At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe.
Something rotten
Something is rotten in the state of academic publishing. But even those of us in the thick of it find it hard to pinpoint exactly what is wrong.
Stop the deluge of science research
The increasing pace of human discovery is a curse – we need to rethink what it means to publish the results of research.
The 1% of scientific publishing
A new study finds that very few scientists (fewer than 1%) manage to publish a paper every year. But these scientists dominate the research journals, having their names on 41% of all papers.
Science joins push to screen statistics in papers
New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis.
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
Why has academic knowledge become more expensive for consumers while music has become less expensive, and what can we do about it? Doing nothing to prevent the trading of electronic copies of our academic work could act to circumvent the perils of engagement with the academic publishing industry.
The inside track
Members of the US National Academy of Sciences have long enjoyed a privileged path to publication in PNAS. Meet the scientists who use it most heavily.
How much did your university pay for your journals?
A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.
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