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Academia is more and more crowded

In the race for citations, journal editors and authors should work together

Citation count is widely seen as the best proxy of impact in the academic community. The success of authors and journals depends on their citation scores. That is why, both journal editors and authors wonder how to attract the academic community to cite their articles or journals more. And this is why journal editors and authors should work together to solve this problem. If you are an author, who is not a Nobel Prize Laureate, you are probably wondering how to improve the chances of your work being cited. And believe me, the managing editor of the journal you are […]

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Why I have started to like Academia.edu recently

I have been a registered user of Academia.edu for several years now, and to be honest until recently I only used it from time to time, mostly as a place for green copies of my work. I did not see it as being a crucial part of my research workflow. Now this is slowly changing, and I am glad to say that it is a useful tool, which helps me a lot, especially in finding new, open access articles that are really interesting for me. But it seems to me that Academia.edu has the potential to do even more. The […]

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Christine Hassenstab: We should care more about finding the audience for research works

In 1907, influenced by the Eugenics Movement, Indiana adopted an “act to prevent procreation of confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists”, which was the first legislation of this kind in the United States. Christine Hassenstab, author of the open access book “Body Law and the Body of Law”, published by De Gruyter Open, uses this period to analyze the social circumstances of this infamous law and its creation. She compares it to the context of the debates that accompanied the sterilization practices in Norway in the 30s, and to later discussions about abortion in these two countries. I am pleased […]

Social media in science communication

Why do birds tweet?

To tweet or not to tweet? Not only are articles that have strong coverage in social media likely to be cited more in the future, social media is also the tool that allows us to communicate directly with the general public. In a time of fiscal crisis, when austerity diminishes national research budgets we, researchers should be able to show that our work has value. People should have an opportunity to discuss our research and judge it from a moral, ethical, political or any other point of view. And we should be able to defend them. The majority of researchers […]

Sergio Canavero: Impossible is a word that does not exist

“I write books, give talks, to start a discussion on head transplant and to explain how it may influence the lives of our children” says Sergio Canavero, the Italian surgeon, who has attracted a lot of attention in the press recently following his claims on the possibilities of performing head transplants in the near future. Canavero’s arguments feature prominently in his book Textbook of Cortical Brain Stimulation published by De Gruyter Open. In this exclusive interview, he discusses the implications of his predictions for humans and the ethical issues that they raise. You are a neurosurgeon at Turin University Hospital, […]

Emanuel Kulczycki: traditional publishing patterns waste the results of academic work

I am recommending to the governors the very same thing I do myself and that I suggest to my colleagues. It is absolutely necessary to publish all the outputs of publicly funded research in the open access model – says Emanuel Kulczycki, philosopher, communication specialist and member of the Council of Young Scientists, the advisory body of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. I am very glad to present an interview with Dr Emanuel Kulczycki, who is a well known Polish blogger, writing mostly on scholarly communication, an active academic and a member of advisory body of […]