In case you’ve missed this one, an interesting analysis was recently published in Nature on citations of manuscripts published in predatory journal. If you contrast
Tag: scientific publishing
Étudiant et auteur: pourquoi, quand et comment!
A rare post in French on a conference I gave last year on the status of author taken by students, mainly in the context of
Systematically reject requests to review: a shameful behaviour?
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and
The reviewers are always right…even when they are wrong!-
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer
Some public shaming is in order
I do not know about you, but I am getting tired and even a bit frustrated by all the e-mails asking me to come to
A new list of predatory (blacklist) journals is available…for a fee
Beall’s list of predatory journals has found a “commercial” replacement. Let’s see how much it will cost to access. Source: U.S. company launches a new
BioMedCentral retracts scientific – The Washington Post
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal – The Washington Post.
Conversation with the 2002 Nobel Winner Sydney Brenner
For the young (and not so young) scientists, a very interesting interview from earlier on this year with the 2002 Physiology / Medicine Nobel Winner
Ruminating... 