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The tyranny of the top science journals?

December 12, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

Are journals like Science, Nature and the like giving too much importance to themselves to the point of distorting the scientific process? A Nobel prize

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Journal Impact Factor: why you should not care… too much

June 2, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

I have been publishing scientific manuscripts for the past 22 years. My educated comments with regard to journal impact factor has always been the same

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Mendeley is joining Elsevier…

April 12, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

Mendeley is a serious options for those looking at a PDF management (and in text citation) system for scientific literature. It is a rather good

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Exit impact factor and h-index, welcome real-time reputation metrics?

February 14, 2013 Luc Beaulieu

An interesting reads at TechCrunch on new forms of dissemination and measurements of scientific impact: Reputation Metrics Startups Aim To Disrupt The Scientific Journal Industry. In

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