Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2018

"Scientists Are Subverting Formal Publishing. Well, Some of Them

A survey shows which scientists are more likely to share their results before "official" publication.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

"Should Grad Students Publish?

Two vastly different disciplines consider whether there are too many journal articles these days, and whether graduate student publishing is part of the problem. Some see that analysis as shortsighted....

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

"When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)

Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked a colleague to review the paper, just to make sure it covered the right bases. What happened next Hetherington explained in the 1982 book, More Random Walks in Science: