"The Editor's Bookshelf" forms part of each issue of
European Science Editing. It lists and briefly describes articles and books likely to be of interest to editors of publications in the sciences.
Blog for contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf
Work in progress to be published in the journal can now be viewed online in the EASE Journal Blog, which now also includes articles for the News Notes and This Site I Like sections of the journal.
If you would like to contribute to the blog please contact the section coordinators, Anna Maria Rossi (annamaria.rossi@iss.it) or Penny Hubbard (pennylhubbard@gmail.com), who will be glad to receive details of articles, books or websites of interest to editors.
Contributions in European languages other than English, especially in French or German, are welcome, as well as contributions in English.
Entries are arranged (roughly) by topic under each heading, not alphabetically by author. We regret that copies of the material referred to in these entries cannot be supplied. Many thanks to those who have sent contributions.
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Disclaimer: Although we hope that the bibliographic details below are correct we cannot guarantee their total accuracy, nor can EASE accept responsibility for any problems arising from possibly incorrect information included here.
The Bookshelf contents are listed under the following headings:
Economics and funding
Editorial process
Ethical issues
Information retrieval
Language and writing
Publishing
Research evaluation
Science
Thanks to the following for their contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf:
Vol 36(4): November 2010:
John Hilton
Vol 36(3): August 2010:
Anna Maria Rossi, John Hilton, Massimo Antonucci, and Margaret Cooter
Vol 36(2), May 2010:
Anna Maria Rossi, John Glen, Massimo Antonucci, James Hartley, Silvia Maina, John Hilton, and Margaret Cooter
Vol 36(1), February 2010:
Massimo Antonucci, Ernesto Constabile, John Glen, James Hartley, Moira Johnson, and Silvia Maina
Vol 35(4), November 2009:
John Glen, James Hartley, Daniela Marsili, Renata Solimini, and Massimo Antonucci
Vol 35(3), August 2009:
Enrico Alleva, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, James Hartley, Joan Marsh, Eleonora Lacorte, Courtney Phillips, Françoise Salager-Meyer, and Renata Solimini
Vol 35(2), May 2009:
Emma Campbell, Eleonora Lacorte, Francoise Salager-Meyer, John Glen, James Hartley, and Renata Solimini
Vol 35(1), February 2009:
David Mason, Moira Johnson-Vekony, Greg Cotton, and Maeve O’Connor for photographs, and Eleonora Lacorte, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, James Hartley, and Renata Solimini for contributions
Vol 34(4), November 2008:
Eleonora Della Corte, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, Andrew Herxheimer, Joan Marsh, and Elise Langdon-Neuner
Vol 34(3), August 2008:
Penny Hubbard, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, Margaret Cooter, and Renata Solimini
Vol 34(2), May 2008:
Emma Campbell, Margaret Cooter, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, James Hartley, Penny Hubbard, Arjan Polderman, and Renata Solimini
Vol 34(1), February 2008:
Penny Hubbard, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Margaret Cooter
Vol 33(4), November 2007:
Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Renata Solimini
Vol 33(3), August 2007:
Margaret Cooter, John Glen, and Renata Solimini
Vol 33(2), May 2007:
John Glen and Renata Solimini
Vol 33(1), February 2007:
Renata Solimini
Latest additions to the Bookshelf
Journal :
Bookshelf :
Science
Vol 36(4), November 2010 -
Nov 15, 2010 - 11:07 AM
- Editors. Social relationships are key to health, and to health policy. PloS Medicine 2010;7(8):e1000334.
- Hartley J. Writing a structured abstract for the thesis. Psychology Teaching Review 2010;16(1):98–100.
- Ohman EM, Roe MT, Armstrong PW. Public sensationalism and clinical
trials: how to address the challenges of science? American Journal of
Medicine 2010;123:481–483.
- Sena ES, van der Worp HB, Bath PM. Publication bias in reports of animal
stroke studies leads to major overstatement of efficacy. PLoS Biology
2010;8:e1000344.
- Shrager J. The promise and perils of pre-publication review: a
multi-agent simulation of biomedical discovery under varying levels of
review stringency. PLoS One 2010;5(5):e10782.
- Stanbrook MB, Héber. Disseminate time-sensitive research faster. CMAJ 2010;182(1):9.
- Van Eperen L, Marincola FM, Strohm J. Bridging the divide between
science and journalism Journal of Translational Medicine 2010;8:25.
- Wiley S. Down with reviews: review articles simply don’t deserve all the citations they receive. The Scientist 2010;24:31.
Journal :
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Research evaluation
Vol 36(4), November 2010 -
Nov 15, 2010 - 11:05 AM
- Craig ID. Introducing SNIP to the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Journal of Sexual Medicine 2010;7:2661–2662.
- Fanelli D. Do pressures to publish increase scientists’ bias? An
empirical support from US states data. PLoS One 2010;5(4):e10271.
- Finch A. Can we do better than existing author citation metrics? Bioessays 2010;32:744–747.
- Larsen PO, von Ins M. The rate of growth in scientific publication and
the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index.
Scientometrics 2010;84(3):575–603.
Journal :
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Publishing
Vol 36(4), November 2010 -
Nov 15, 2010 - 11:03 AM
- Björk BC, Welling P, Laakso M. Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009. PLoS One 2010;5:e11273.
- Corbyn Z. An easy way to boost a paper’s citations. Nature 2010;13 August.
- Heckenberg A, Druml C. Gender aspects in medical publication – the
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift.Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
2010;122:141–145.
- Kaiser J. Free journals grow amid ongoing debate. Science 2010;329(5994):896–898.
Journal :
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Language and writing
Vol 36(4), November 2010 -
Nov 15, 2010 - 10:59 AM
- European Medical Writers Association. Business in medical writing: a monographic issue. The Write Stuff 2010;19(2):78–163.
- Kim TY, Coenen A, Hardiker N. A quality improvement model for health
care terminologies. Journal of Biomedical Information 2010;17 August.