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I hope everyone has been enjoying the holidays!
Yes, it’s the season of giving and what better way to show you care than to give authorship on one of your papers. This can be a very touchy subject sometimes and I’ve heard of some pretty crazy and ridiculous situations where people have been included as authors on [...]
It’s happened to me and it’s probably happened to you. I was talking to a buddy of mine today who has been having a heck of a time with a manuscript review. The unreasonable manuscript review. Yes, it can be a very touchy subject and a bad review can cut you deep. But have you ever [...]
So this is how I spend my time off. I am currently in a 2 week stretch without clinical rotation and off from residency interviews for another week and a half. Fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve got a number of manuscripts to wrap up. Making progress but it’s the final details that makes writing a manuscript such a [...]
In the last 30 years, more and more published scientific articles are a result of collaborations between investigators at different universities, which may suggest a dissemination of research beyond the walls of a few elite universities and/or geographic regions. A study published in the Nov. 21st issue of the journal Science finds that increased multi-university [...]
If you are a graduate student in the process of finding a thesis advisor, one factor that you should consider is how well previous graduate students have done. Some objective measures to look at are:
1) How many publications did each graduate student finishing in the last 5 years have?
2) Does the lab produce high quality or [...]
Here’s an interesting article suggesting that “older scientists publish more papers”:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081029/pdf/4551161a.pdf
(if the link is down, see the October 30 2008 issue of Nature (vol. 455, issue 30) on page 1161)
Sounds like scientists in their 50s and 60s are publishing as much if not more than their 30 or 40 year old counterparts.
I guess there’s hope for all [...]
Science and knowledge should be freely available to everyone. What’s the point of publishing cutting-edge discoveries if only wealthy academic institutions can afford to have subscriptions to those journals? What about a university in a developing country that may not have the same resources as universities and academic centers in the USA or Europe? Shouldn’t they have access [...]
