Showing posts with label publish or perish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publish or perish. Show all posts
Friday, June 29, 2018

TreeBASE and Dryad

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It is now generally expected that scientists, unless working on commercial or otherwise confidential projects, make the data underlying thei...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Manuscript submission then and now

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When I started in science, back in the dark ages, submitting a manuscript to a journal was still quite simple, if perhaps a bit inefficient:...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

How the sausage is made: peer reviewing edition

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One of the aspects of working as a scientist that I find most intriguing is peer reviewing each other's work . The main issue is that wh...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

The taxonomic impediment as illustrated by journals' criteria for the acceptance of manuscripts

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About two weeks ago I learned from a co-author, who in that case is the corresponding author, that a certain systematic botany journal would...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Journal citation styles

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Among the minor frustrations of publishing scientific papers is formatting, in particular of reference lists. Every journal has its own form...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

A fast alert or a slow editor?

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Okay, that is a first. My co-author and I just learned that we got a paper accepted not from a message from the editor but from my Google Sc...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Cracked explains what is wrong with science - or tries to

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Sometimes I really wish people who try to write very confidently about a subject would at least make a token effort at trying to research th...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Variants of peer review

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In my field of science, peer review generally takes the following form: You submit a manuscript to a journal, it is reviewed by two to three...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

Scientific fraud doesn't make sense to me

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Having just read about an alleged data manipulation scandal in political science in the USA, I wonder once more why people are committing sc...
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Monday, August 18, 2014

A metric of Twitter and blog hits for scientific articles

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On this blog I have sometimes mentioned , and complained about , the influence that the obsession with article citations and journal impac...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Scottish journal of EVERYTHING

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One of the things often pointed out by Jeffrey Beall is that questionable publishers like to give their for-profit journals very wide scope...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

More editorial blindness please

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Apart from phylogenetic systematics, another topic that I seem to be writing a lot about is scientific publishing, and there especially abou...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

Inflation in citation metrics

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On Jeffrey Beall's Scholarly Open Access blog I recently got involved in a short discussion on steadily rising citation metrics. He dis...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

What makes reviewing a paper enjoyable?

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One more about peer review. To get our papers published, we all have to go through it, and the pleasantness of that experience can vary dep...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Failures and virtues of peer review

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For a few days now, scientists have been discussing a small experiment conducted by a Science correspondent. He invented several variations...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Manuscript writing: what to avoid

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Previously I wrote a post about peer reviewers from hell . But of course I am not only an author of papers but also a peer reviewer myself, ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Do as I say, don't do as I do

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Lately awareness seems to be rising that impact factor mania has reached ridiculous proportions, and interestingly it appears as if one of ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Authorship of scientific papers

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One topic that comes up among scientists ever so often is that of paper authorship. There are several issues here but clearly they all revol...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Where to submit a manuscript

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In the past few weeks I have repeatedly poked fun at science spam advertising poor quality for-profit "journals", and I have cite...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Reference managers

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So far I have lived in the grey zone where the investment that would have been necessary to start using a reference manager appeared just a ...