Tracking scholarly impact on the social web: altmetrics
TweetTim Berners-Lee created the Web as a scholarly communication tool but some argue that the Web has revolutionised everything but scholarly communication. One of the major adherents of this view is...
View ArticleMendeley/PLoS API Binary Battle – the finalists
TweetPLoS and Mendeley recently closed their Binary Battle contest to build the best apps that make science more open using PLoS and/or Mendeley’s APIs (Application Programming Interface). There are...
View ArticleTwimpact factors: can tweets really predict citations?
TweetA new paper is kicking up a storm in the world of altmetrics (a community that seeks to incorporate social coverage in the assessment of scholarly impact). Analysing the relationship between...
View ArticleFigShare: striving for greater efficiency in scientific research
Tweet Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already...
View ArticleTotal-Impact: tool for researchers combines traditional and alternative metrics
Tweet“As the volume of academic literature explodes, scholars rely on filters to select the most relevant and significant sources from the rest,” the altmetrics manifesto argues. “Unfortunately,...
View ArticlePlagiarism detection: CrossRef, CrossCheck and iThenticate
TweetMost authors are aware that plagiarism is an unethical publication practice. However, it is still a serious problem and arguably the most common ethical issue afflicting medical writing. The World...
View ArticleReadCube: just another reference manager?
TweetLast month, ReadCube (a free, cross-platform reference manager) announced a host of new features in the form of ‘enhanced PDFs’. Articles published by Nature, PLOS and Wiley can now be enhanced...
View ArticleScholar Updates: helping authors to make new connections?
TweetA common goal of academics is to read all relevant publications within a particular field of expertise. Locating these materials is a challenge (to say the least) and the task is becoming more and...
View ArticlePlum Analytics: a new player in the field of altmetrics?
TweetThe “publish or perish” model of the academic world has followed a similar pattern since the middle of the last century. It generally takes around seven years from the conception of an idea, to...
View ArticleArticle-level metrics: which service to choose?
TweetArticle-level metrics (or ALMs) were a hot topic at this week’s HighWire publisher meeting in Washington. (Highwire hosts both the BMJ and its stable of 42 specialist journals). From SAGE to...
View ArticleElsevier reveals new layout for Article of the Future
The Article of the Future project is Elsevier’s “never-ending quest to explore better ways to create and deliver the formal published record”. In the latest phase of this ‘quest’, the project team have...
View ArticleHonourable hackers
BMJ hack day’s winning project – a smartphone app for patients to collect and compute home blood pressure readings – has triggered lots of social media attention and press coverage in titles such as...
View ArticleBMJ Editors’ Retreat: the certainty principle
Each year, BMJ invites the editors of its specialist journals to gather at BMA House and discuss the hottest issues affecting medical publishing. The first day of the retreat included presentations...
View ArticleFigShare: striving for greater efficiency in scientific research
Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been...
View ArticleTotal-Impact: tool for researchers combines traditional and alternative metrics
“As the volume of academic literature explodes, scholars rely on filters to select the most relevant and significant sources from the rest,” the altmetrics manifesto argues. “Unfortunately,...
View ArticlePlagiarism detection: CrossRef, CrossCheck and iThenticate
Most authors are aware that plagiarism is an unethical publication practice. However, it is still a serious problem and arguably the most common ethical issue afflicting medical writing. The World...
View ArticleReadCube: just another reference manager?
Last month, ReadCube (a free, cross-platform reference manager) announced a host of new features in the form of ‘enhanced PDFs’. Articles published by Nature, PLOS and Wiley can now be enhanced with...
View ArticleScholar Updates: helping authors to make new connections?
A common goal of academics is to read all relevant publications within a particular field of expertise. Locating these materials is a challenge (to say the least) and the task is becoming more and more...
View ArticlePlum Analytics: a new player in the field of altmetrics?
The “publish or perish” model of the academic world has followed a similar pattern since the middle of the last century. It generally takes around seven years from the conception of an idea, to the...
View ArticleArticle-level metrics: which service to choose?
Article-level metrics (or ALMs) were a hot topic at this week’s HighWire publisher meeting in Washington. (Highwire hosts both the BMJ and its stable of 42 specialist journals). From SAGE to eLife,...
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