It is Open Access Week! The scientific community is steadily moving toward open science. Thus, apart from open data mandates driven by governments, even publishers are joining this “open” trend. For instance, PLOS announced a Read More
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This case study taken from The Evolution of Impact Indicators: From bibliometrics to altmetrics, a free ebook co-produced by Scholastica and Altmetric, explains how a researcher was able to use altmetrics to show a more Read More
Aims and scope The Annals of Thoracic Surgery focuses on original work that reports advances in chest and cardiovascular surgery, thus enabling thoracic surgeons to share their experiences and, ultimately, to improve patient care. Publisher Read More
Open Access Week is an annual global scholarly communication event organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). The main intent of this event, which started in 2008, is to create awareness in the Read More
Case: An author’s manuscript was accepted by a journal and sent to the production team for further processing. When the copyedited proofs were sent to the author for his approval, he found several errors Read More
This session was conducted in Portuguese and was customized especially for researchers in Brazil. In this session, participants learned about the most common structure of reporting. The objective of this session was to help authors Read More
Neurosurgery Aims and scope Neurosurgery aims “to provide a medium for the prompt publication of scientific papers dealing with clinical or experimental neurosurgery”. Publisher Wolters Kluwer. The journal is the official journal of the Congress Read More
“I have no doubt that Alfred Nobel himself would have loved to be here with us at Lindau to discuss the issues of our times.” Dr. Lars Heikensten, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm Read More
The archetypal image of a researcher publishing study findings as a lone author is long passé. Research is now primarily a collaborative and often an interdisciplinary endeavor. Unsurprisingly, this shift is echoed in the patterns Read More
On October 12, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, Read More