News tagged with scientific article

Get ready for climate change, says UN panel

The toll from ever-more intense floods, drought, and heatwaves will crescendo this century unless humanity anticipates the onslaught, according to a UN report set to be unveiled on Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 49

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

Where are the female scientists in research articles?

A recent research article published in the journal Scientometrics by a team from the University of Extremadura (UEX) has proved something that was already obvious to its scientific community - the extreme imbala ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2

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