Why can’t I reuse these tables and figures?
Tables and figures contain the data of a scientific paper in condensed (and often visually appealing) form. This is why...
Martin Fenner
Paper retractions do not induce citation mutations
Dear Christian Specht, Thank you very much for your detailed response in The Scientist to our previous letter regarding citation mutations. You clarified several issues that were raised in your original study, particularly that citation mutation...
Citation Style Language: Interview with Rintze Zelle and Ian Mulvany
Citation styles are one of the greater mysteries for the novice manuscript writer. There are numerous ways that authors, title, journal, etc. can be arranged and formatted (see examples below), and in bibliographies citations can be...
Zotero soon is Everywhere
Whereas most reference managers are either standalone applications and/or web-based, Zotero works as a Firefox plugin. This approach has many advantages, but is not for everybody. So today Zotero announced Zotero Everywhere: * A browser pluging...
Letter to The Scientist
Dear Scientist, last week you published an interesting article by Christian Specht about Mutations of citations. Dr. Specht found more than 600 wrong citations for the paper by Laemmli (Laemmli 1970), which has been cited at...
Update of Reference Manager Overview Chart
In March 2009 I posted an overview chart of how popular reference managers have implemented some important features. I’ve since updated this chart several times, and the chart probably has outgrown the format of a...