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Would you like to become a certified peer reviewer?
The process of peer reviewing is associated with certain challenges. Editors often struggle with finding reviewers for their next articles. Reviewers want to demonstrate their expertise but have no way of getting noticed. It happens that reviewers decline requests due to lack of familiarity with the subject matter, or because they think they are…
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The top 10 journal articles published in 2009 by readership on Mendeley
Having seen a lot of ‘top 10 lists of 2009’ around, we thought we’d throw in our two cents and give you the top 10 most read articles on Mendeley, published in 2009! The top paper for 2009 was written by Uri Alon, entitled: ‘How to choose a good scientific problem’, published in the journal…
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Oy vey. Scientific discourse trainwreck.
As an addendum to Jason’s earlier post, here’s a story of scientific discourse gone horribly wrong. It would be funny if it wasn’t so.. somehow really not funny. How to Publish a Scientific Comment in 123 Easy Steps http://d.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=18773744&access_key=key-1md5zdvu8wpysalhsmqg&page=1&version=1&viewMode= Via björn.brembs.blog.
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Who is killing science on the Web? Publishers or Scientists?
Killing the advancement of science on the Web is killing the advancement of science as a whole. A few weeks ago I attended a panel session at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco called, “Making the Web work for science.” (Video wrap-up here) Really, the focus was on how to get scientists to put their…
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