Articles are published before they’re reviewed; doubts about a paper are viewed as a positive status; papers only need to contain “science;” review and revision can continue forever; and PubMed Central is their certifying entity. Welcome to the world of F1000 Research.
Making sense of non-events (citation, circulation, and publication) requires context and a tolerance for uncertainty.
Can tweets predict future citations? A study of article tweets raises validity and ethical concerns.
2Collab and Connotea are choking on spam, and they may not have the right scale or architecture to avoid a future defined by it.
Elsevier’s “Article of the Future” prototypes appear, and only spotlight the underlying conceptual problems for a traditional, article-centric publisher.