Standards for the Conduct of Science in the Information Age
Assuming our airports are again open next weekend, I will be attending a meeting organized by the NSF (National Science...
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Editorial Peer Reviewers’ Recommendations at a General Medical Journal: Are They Reliable and Do Editors Care?
Peer review is central to how we evaluate science and therefore how journal papers, grants, and jobs are awarded. Peer...
Lst wk I had g8t fun @ #hcsmeucamp
Last Wednesday I attended the Health Care Social Media Camp in Berlin. Healthcare Social Media in Europe – #hcsmeu for short – is a community of healthcare twitterers and social media users from Europe, started in August 2009...
Let’s make science metrics more scientific
In the March 25 edition of Nature, Julia Lane, Program Director of the Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program...
Cancer and the media
Last Tuesday the Archives of Internal Medicine released a study that analyzed the news reporting about cancer in 8 large-readership...
Chances and problems of doing science online
Last month (shortly after ScienceOnline2010) David Crotty wrote in a blog post Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science...