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http://jcn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/24/3/260 A really amazing piece on the war of authors and editors to get to the empire of impact factor; cheating and tricks, cutely told in a short story, supported by sound references. Gallagher R. Citation violations. The Scientist 2009;23(5):13. The authors of scientific articles do not always properly cite previous research works. This “bibliographic negligence” or “citation amnesia” is due to the fact that actually there is no best practice for citing prior work. Moreover, this behaviour is reinforced by the hard competition in the scientific environment that pushes authors to omit mention of competitors’ results. Journals should adopt a code of practice for citation. Many years ago Eugene Garfield suggested that authors declare and sign that they have done a minimal search of the literature and that to the best of their knowledge there is no other relevant work. However, the question still remains open… Greenhalgh T. Sharing medical research data: whose rights and who’s right? BMJ 2009;338:b1499. www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/apr14_2/b1499 Objections to Groves’ article “Managing UK research data for future use” (see Science section below) include issues with data interpretation when data is “cleaved” from the context in which it was collected or the people who supplied it and interpreted it, and the breakdown of the trust between researchers and research participants. Landis GA. APS copyright policy still no good. APS News 2009;18(4):5. www.aps.org/apsnews/ Letter querying why the American Physical Society’s “improved” copyright policy (APS News 2009;18(2):8) still demands transfer of copyright on the grounds that “we must have this to continue to provide quality publication” when commercial publishers do not make such a demand. Reich ES. The rise and fall of a physics fraudster. Physics World 2009;22(5):24–29. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/38903 Article based on the author’s 2009 book: Plastic fantastic: how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world. The author traces the history of Jan Hendrik Schön’s career and what led him to fabricate data, how this affected the work of others who tried to replicate his results, and how eventually the fraud was detected. © Copyright 2009 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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