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Does Reviewing Your Peers Create Better Results Than Peer-Review?2 comments

Philip Davis wrote 2 days ago: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Should members of the National Academy of Sciences b … more →

Tags: Peer Review, Research, Authors, authorship, citation analysis, Harvard University, Journal publishing, National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Professional and Scholarly Publishing Leads the Market for Ebooks by a Wide Margin7 comments

Michael Clarke wrote 2 weeks ago: Image by Eirik Newth via Flickr Given all the attention from mainstream media and the blogosphere, o … more →

Tags: Books, Commerce, Reading, Research, Society for Scholarly Publishing, Al Greco, Bookselling, eBooks, Markets

No Journal Access? Email the Author, Colleague9 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia Informal peer-to-peer sharing of scientific articles is common for researchers i … more →

Tags: social role, Research, open access, citation analysis, developing nation, bibliometrics, Research4Life, Agora, Hinari

More Viewers Watching More Ads -- The Lessons of the DVR Paradox2 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia The widespread availability of digital video recorders (DVRs) in the home has ch … more →

Tags: Social Media, World of Tomorrow, technology, experimentation, Business models, advertising, Commerce, Business, Digital Video Recorder

How Meaningful Are User Ratings? (This Article = 4.5 Stars!)22 comments

David Crotty wrote 3 weeks ago: Image via Wikipedia The impact factor has long been recognized as a problematic method for interpret … more →

Tags: controversial topics, experimentation, Research, Social Media, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, academic publishing, Amazon

Publishing in the Google Ecosystem15 comments

Joseph Esposito wrote 4 weeks ago: Image via CrunchBase A recent trip to Europe brought home to me the fact that the American and Europ … more →

Tags: Authority, Business models, Commerce, controversial topics, Copyright, Newspapers, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow

Scientists Are Using Social Media Tools (and May Be Using Social Networks, Too)29 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image by luc legay via Flickr Recently, David Crotty observed that scientists are not joining social … more →

Tags: Business models, experimentation, Research, Social Media, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, facebook, LinkedIn

The Hidden Economic Carnage in Science and Education2 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image by kevindean via Flickr It’s a theme I’ve heard many times over the past 6-12 mont … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Tools, technology, Research, Commerce, Mergers and Acquisitions, gross domestic product, Research and Development, World Economy

Morgan Stanley's 2009 Trends Favor the Mobile and the Social3 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia Mary Meeker presented her 6th annual presentation from Morgan Stanley covering e … more →

Tags: Commerce, Research, Social Media, technology, Tools, Usability, World of Tomorrow, Apple, AT&T

Open Access and Vanity Publishing21 comments

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: Is open access (OA) publishing a vanity press industry? At one end of the OA publishing spectrum are … more →

Tags: Business models, controversial topics, Research, Article Influence Score, author processing charges, Economics, open access, Open Access Journal, stuart shieber

PLoS Releases Article-level Metrics6 comments

Philip Davis wrote 2 months ago: Image by dullhunk via Flickr Last week, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) announced the release o … more →

Tags: Authority, Peer Review, Social Media, Public Library Of Science, PLoS ONE, Impact factor, Usage, Metrics, Article downloads

Peer Review Survey 20091 comment

Philip Davis wrote 2 months ago: Image by Gideon Burton via Flickr Peer review is slow, inefficient, and prone to bias. It doesn … more →

Tags: Peer Review, Research, social role, Author, journals, Scientific journal, survey

"Did You Know?" 4.0 -- Convergence and Communications

Kent Anderson wrote 2 months ago: The “Did You Know?” videos have been a hallmark of Web 2.0 presentations and blog posts … more →

Tags: Historical, Research, social role, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, Web 2.0, NFAIS, Future

Is your media measurement program vulnerable?

communicationstation wrote 3 months ago: Is your media measurement program vulnerable?. Helpful article on metrics for PR plans. … more →

Naughty Twins and the Impact of Journals6 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 months ago: Identical twins. Image via Wikipedia Authors often assume that publishing their results in high-impa … more →

Tags: Research, Sociology, citation analysis, Impact factor, journals, Matthew effect, scientific impact

How Much Is Enough? Disagreements About Scale in the Age of Information Abundance

Kent Anderson wrote 3 months ago: Image by mac steve via Flickr In statistics, I was taught that a sample size of 30 is usually suffic … more →

Tags: Social Media, World of Tomorrow, Marketing, technology, Research, Business models, Google, Yahoo, Tim O'Reilly

Pubget: Time-saver or Content Aggregator?7 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 months ago: Pubget is a software for searching the biomedical literature.  It’s different from other searc … more →

Tags: Business models, Reading, Tools, Usability, Article downloads, Search Engines, Medical Journals, Browsing, Searching

Gaming the Rating System5 comments

Philip Davis wrote 4 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Recently, I received the following email from a friend: Dear iphone/ipod wieldin … more →

Tags: advertising, Sociology, Application Software, Article downloads, Citations, iPhone, iPod, preferential attachment, Recommender Systems

Diversion, Invention, and Socialized Medicine9 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 4 months ago: Image via Wikipedia A recent BMJ paper by Steven Greenberg entitled, “How Citation Distortions … more →

Tags: Authority, social role, Tools, Research, Authors, Peer Review, social network, BMJ, Medicine


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