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Guest Post: Emory’s Gary Miller, "The Literature of Science"

Emory Professor and journal Editor in Chief Gary Miller offers a long term view of the scholarly literature and offers thoughts on the important values worth preserving in the shift from print to digital.

  • By Scholarly Kitchen
  • Sep 13, 2016
  • 5 Comments

Revisiting: The Editor — A Vital Role We Barely Talk About Anymore

Revisiting Kent Anderson’s 2014 post on the importance of editors–how much of what we see as a failure of “peer review” is really a failure of editorial oversight?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 17, 2015
  • 6 Comments

The Editor — A Vital Role We Barely Talk About Anymore

An alien landing in the scholarly and scientific publishing world today, reading all the opinions about how to make things more efficient and effective, might be forgiven for thinking there are only authors, readers, librarians, and reviewers. After all, those […]

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 23, 2014
  • 8 Comments

The Journal Redesign — More Complicated, More Costly, and More Strategic Than Ever

Journal redesigns seem to be occurring more frequently — and are certainly more complex — than in the past. What motivates a publisher and editor to undertake a redesign? And why is it so complex, costly, and strategic today?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jul 7, 2014
  • 21 Comments

Netherlands Heart Journal Editor Delivers Dutch Citation Treat

Editors have learned how to exploit a simple loophole in the calculation of the Impact Factor. Is it time to close that loophole?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 30, 2013
  • 29 Comments

Can We Measure the Value of Professional Editors?

eLife asserts that professional editors create more harm than good. But how do we know that? How can we know that? Or is this just an emotional argument based on anecdote and conjecture rather than fact?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 13, 2011
  • 24 Comments

Healing the House Divided — A Side-Effect of Shifting to the Attention Economy?

Editors need to act more like publishers, and publishers need to have more editorial skills. Will the demands of the Age of Attention finally mend the editorial-business divide?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 30, 2011
  • 11 Comments

Money and Motivation: Will Content Survive the Age of Sharing and Collaboration?

The age of collaboration indicates some adjacent sources of value are emerging. Since adjacency is relative, how can publishers ensure that the central pieces remain?

  • By Alix Vance
  • Mar 16, 2010
  • 1 Comment

What Can We Learn from the Gazette?

The Gazette is going through a transformation in how they envision and create content. Can other publishers and content providers learn something from their approach?

  • By Ann Michael
  • Mar 10, 2009
  • 3 Comments

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