Today is World Quantum Day – didn’t ya know?
To celebrate, IOP Publishing is celebrating rising stars in the quantum research sphere, and launching a special collection of its most popular, cutting-edge quantum research published in the last two years.
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If proof were ever needed of how time-poor, information-overloaded and prone to distraction we’ve all become, the visual abstract has become a valuable tool in drawing readers’ attention to the latest journal research articles. The added value that visual abstracts bring has [ read more ]
We’ve all been there … you’ve become fluent and efficient using your favourite software package, because it does that thing which really makes life easier for you and lets you get on with your job without having to figure out how to [ read more ]
There’s a good argument for encouraging academics and scientists to venture beyond their own discipline and delve into subjects outside their expertise. It can deliver valuable insights on the ‘bigger picture’ of how one’s research adds value to the body of human [ read more ]
When it comes to making money out of digital publishing, it seems the power balance between – let’s not forget it – often co-dependent platforms and publishers/content generators is significantly loaded towards the platforms (well, who knew?). So what, you may ask?
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An open letter by Richard Reeves, Managing Director of The Association of Online Publishers, appears in the What’s New In Publishing site, which draws attention to and calls for action from the digital advertising industry to stop the growing practice of illegal [ read more ]
There are untold quantities of research papers – most of which actually contain valuable, peer-reviewed data – that bypass the traditional scholarly route of publication in a journal of record and are instead self-published. This is becoming a problem: so-called ‘grey literature’ [ read more ]
The conversation around authorship attribution and the use of AI rumbles on, this time tackling the vexed question of copyright and plagiarism – check out Roy Kaufman’s great article in ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’ (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/03/07/some-thoughts-on-five-pending-ai-litigations-avoiding-squirrels-and-other-ai-distractions/). There is the added bonus [ read more ]
The ‘What’s New In Publishing’ site has a really accessible piece that discusses how digital publishing can combat fake news and misinformation. It contains some startling statistics, but also suggests solutions involving the use of AI to track and flag suspicious content [ read more ]
Today I’m sharing some research I’ve come across in Nature Human Behaviour that presents evidence for something that many have suspected for some time …. the title of the paper says it all really: Gender inequality and self-publication are common among academic [ read more ]