The Collapse of Peer Review
Is peer review in decline? Evidence from the field of economics suggests that top authors are bypassing the journal certification process and distributing their papers on their own. Will other authors follow?
Headlines 2.0
Editors still write headlines like they’re for print and people. With online, headlines shift to a new environment and have at least two more audiences.
Go Away = Come Back
The link is the currency of the Web. Give users more to spend, and they’ll reward you with loyalty.
The $1 Billion Apomediation
UAL loses $1 billion in value, thanks to the power of apomediation combined with a mess in the metadata.
Google Knols = Infomercials
Google Knol may be just author infomercials, not a vibrant reference work with accountability.
48 Hours on Wikipedia
Lies inserted into Wikipedia get corrected quickly, a small study finds.
Apomediation: Word of the Day
Disintermediation presupposes the intermediation is the only choice. Maybe apomediation is the destination.
The Importance of Being First
Position in a daily arXiv email report can determine future citations. A German physicist struggles to determine why.
Anonymity Meets Aggression on Web 2.0
Web 2.0 may be shattering the established control of elite media. In their place are loud and aggressive voices.
Watching the Wrong Things?
Scholarly publishers have traditionally focused on articles, issues, subscriptions, citations, impact factors, and business models. But maybe by focusing on these things, which are much more about us than about our readers (who are becoming users today, a significant shift […]
Open Access Doesn’t Drive Citations
In the best-designed study of this topic yet, no citation advantage emerges for OA articles.
Google Launches Knols
Google Knols launched with a lot of splash, but is it a small fish?
Who Comments?
The proliferation of Web 2.0 and social networking tools has made it clear that the functionality is being baked into the substance of the Web. But, who is using these tools in the scholarly community? A recent blog entry on […]
Unfair Use
Blogging, like journalism, amplifies the dissemination of scientific information. But tensions still exist between bloggers and the mainstream media.
Citations & the Missing Link
A paper examines faulty citations, but the authors are on shaky ground.