News tagged with journal articles

Reduced tillage doesn't mean reduced cotton yields under drip irrigatio

Loss of production may be one concern cotton producers have on the Rolling Plains when considering switching to reduced- or no-tillage systems, said Dr. Paul DeLaune, Texas AgriLife Research environmental soil scientist in ...

Biology / Other

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Paid access to journal articles not a significant barrier for scientists

They say the best things in life are free, but when it comes to online scientific publishing, a new research report in The FASEB Journal suggests otherwise. In the report, Philip M. Davis from Cornell University shows that f ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles

In scientific publishing, how much reuse of text is too much? Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech and collaborators have shown that a computer-based text-searching tool is capable of unearthing ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New study: Serious gaps in medical journals' disclosure of physician relationships with industry

Nearly half the surgeons who made at least $1 million in payments from orthopedic device companies did not have that relationship published in their scientific articles, according to a study released today in the on-line ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Placing ads: Location, location, location

Marketers have always known they must carefully choose where they place their ads, but a new study in Journal of Consumer Research shows that even the nearby content in a publication—its difficulty and design—affect consum ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists' strategic reading of research enhanced by digital tools

The revolution in scientific publishing that has been promised since the 1980s is finally about to take place, according to two University of Illinois experts in information science.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Can downloads predict impact for scientific articles?

While the number of times a scientific article is cited by other articles is currently the gold standard for ranking its impact, online publishing offers another measure: the number of unique downloads.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Authors, journal editors respond to possible cases of plagiarism identified by UT Southwestern

By bringing cases of potential plagiarism out into the open, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on the peer-review process and scientific publication.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1