ON a related thread.
Lawrence 2007. The mismeasurement of science. Current Biology
http://www.labri.fr/perso/gimbert/lawrence-current-biology-2007.pdf
Excerpt:
Answer from the hero in Leo
Szilard’s 1948 story “The Mark
Gable Foundation” when asked
by a wealthy entrepreneur
who believes that scien
"Alexandre F. Souza" wrote:
> Dear Julie,
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> I am also not a fan of high-impact journals. In a web era like ours,
> articles are searched for easily and most people tends to pick them
> according to affinity to current interests and not so much by the
> "importance" of t
Dear Julie,
I fully agree with Monbiot's criticism of scientific publishing by
academic publishers and believe it is far from paranoia.
The main scape out are the open journals. For many of us third world
researchers the main difficulty regarding open journals are page
charges. I believe it
