BEST Journals demonstrate what it takes to be the best.
August 7, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing
I wish I could say this was a joke, but it’s part of a real email from BEST Journals to me, asking me to submit my papers to them within the next four days. Gotcha. I wasn’t doing anything anyway. ————————- From: BEST Journals Subject: Calling for Origianl Papers Aug Edition Date: August 7, 2014 […]
The impact factor as a useful metric is becoming less useful.
August 5, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing
With the release of the 2013 impact factors recently, I was reminded about a fascinating piece over at the London School of Economics and Political Science Impact Blog from a few years ago. The article argues that the relationship between impact factor and the citations by journal has been declining since 2012. The authors argue […]
How the Purpose of the Literature Review Affects How You Write It
Which is harder? Assembling the literature review for your dissertation or assembling the literature review for your journal article? Have you ever struggled with trying to assemble a literature review section? For your dissertation, you might be overwhelmed by the large number of papers in your discipline that you feel that you need to address. […]
Effective use of colors in meteorological visualizations
A new paper has appeared in the Early Online Releases at the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. This paper is entitled,
Scientific integrity matters! Fabricated peer reviewers lead to 60 retractions.
July 11, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing, Reviewing
Thanks to The Week‘s report, I was alerted to the 60 retracted articles from the Journal of Vibration and Control. The explanation and list of retracted papers is here. More saucy details can be found here. Kudos to the Editor-in-Chief Ali H. Nayfeh and SAGE for carrying out the investigation and retracting the papers. This […]
