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In the news: February Digest
…integrity! Dr. Frances Arnold, winner of half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, tweeted that her research team had retracted a 2019 paper because "the work has not been reproducible". She wrote, "It is painful to admit, but important to do so. I apologize to all. I was a bit busy when this was submitted and did not do my job well". This type of transparency and commitment to the integrity of the… - News
In the news: April Digest
…particularly from the global south, and to distinguish between low quality and “dodgy, fraudulent, pseudo, questionable, sham, illegitmate”, parodical and, my favorite, spoofy, journals. https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e99 The US Federal Trade Commission fined OMICS Group, iMedPub LLC and Srinubabu… - News
In the news: June Digest
…href="https://www.wcri2019.org/uploads/files/2019/Hong_Kong_Manifesto_v9.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.wcri2019.org/uploads/files/2019/Hong_Kong_Manifesto_v9.pdf Oh My-hyphens included in titles impedes citation counts --as studied in Scopus and Web of Science! In papers studied there was a strong--and significant negative--correlation between the Journal Impact Factor and percentage of hyphenated paper titles published in the IEEE Transactions on Software… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…Journal Management This month’s topic is “journal management” and on first blush, it isn’t obvious how the concept of “ethics” applies to this topic. I thought of things like selection and implementation of a manuscript manager, paying bills, identifying reviewers, etc. But when I got past my concrete thinking it’s clear journals must be managed based on fundamental ethical…