The responsibilities of the English-speaking co-author
Category: academic life
Should they be blamed for poorly written papers from non-English speaking lead authors?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:44 AM • 15 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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RSS @ Sciencedirect and GSA
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It turns out that Sciencedirect do have subdiscipline RSS feeds - they're just a little hidden away.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:06 AM • 6 Comments •
RSS @ AGU
Category: academic life
Am I the only one to miss that AGU have finally got their online act together and are now providing RSS feeds for their journals? They even have feeds for newly published articles in particular subdisciplines, like geochemistry, or structural...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:54 AM • 1 Comments •
Publication and Publicity
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What's a science blogger to do when the media is awash with stories about a paper that hasn't been published yet? This was the dilemma I was faced with last week when I started reading stories about Watt el al.'s...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments •
Publication tag clouds
Brian's had the cool idea of summarising some of his pending scientific papers using tag clouds, and I'm joining Lab Lemming, ReBecca and Maria in jumping on the bandwagon. The following two clouds, which may or may not provide some...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:33 AM • 7 Comments •
Nature Geoscience: cutting edge or consolation prize?
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This month saw the launch of the first issue of Nature's latest specialist offshoot, Nature Geoscience. This is a monthly publication presumably designed to act as a clearing house for those contributions which don't quite have the pizzazz to make...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:32 AM • 10 Comments •
Resubmission
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Long-term readers of this blog may recall that just before I moved out to Johannesburg (and onto Scienceblogs), I got back some rather robust reviews for two papers based on my PhD research which I'd submitted some months previously. Although...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:25 PM • 3 Comments •
In defence of the scientific paper
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Janet brings us some rather vitriolic criticism by Sir Peter Medewar: The scientific paper in its orthodox form does embody a totally mistaken conception, even a travesty, of the nature of scientific thought. The argument seems to be that the...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:53 AM • 9 Comments •
When reviewers go bad
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Is there a way to neuter anonymous hatchet-job reviews?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:46 AM • 5 Comments •
Real peer review
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In theory, peer review is the sacred core of the self-correcting machinery of science. But what's it like in practice?
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:46 PM • 3 Comments •
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