Popularity of online reference managers
Now that we have a number of online reference managers to choose from, I thought it would be interesting to look at their popularity – both in absolute numbers of visitors and the in changes during the...
Martin Fenner
A few questions about author identifiers
The scientific articles we write are uniquely identified by Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Many people believe that we also need unique identifiers for the authors of those articles. Some of the arguments why author identifiers could...
Twitter for Peer Review
A recent Nature News article by Geoff Brumfiel (Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?) has stirred up many interesting discussions...
Editorial Manager: Interview with Richard Wynne
Practically all scientific journals now use web-based systems for paper submissions and peer review. This saves the authors a lot of time compared to paper submissions by postal mail (until 15 years ago) or email (until...
Word processor support in citation managers: Is there a better way?
Citations of the relevant literature are an essential feature of scientific papers. Reference Manager software helps adding these citations and...
Reference Manager Overview
18 April 2009: I've updated the chart and added 2collab, the “Read” category, sharing of PDF files, and...