Reference Management with the iPad
The iPad was released six months ago, and we already have several reference managers available for the platform. Reading the PDF of a scientific paper on an iPad is a positive experience, and to me very...
Martin Fenner
Beyond the PDF – it is time for a workshop
PDF has become the standard way we consume scientific papers, but in fact is not a good format for this...
ReaderMeter: researcher-level metrics based on readership
In a blog post last week, Dario Taraborelli officially announced ReaderMeter. ReaderMeter takes the usage data from reference managers (starting with Mendeley) to analyze the impact of publications by a particular author. ReaderMeter is a welcome...
Advice for scientists who want to become Wikipedia editors
This week PLoS Computational Biology published another helpful editorial in their 10 Simple Rules collection (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941): Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. I have very rarely edited Wikipedia articles...
Why can’t I reuse these tables and figures?
Tables and figures contain the data of a scientific paper in condensed (and often visually appealing) form. This is why...
Paper retractions do not induce citation mutations
Dear Christian Specht, Thank you very much for your detailed response in The Scientist to our previous letter regarding citation mutations. You clarified several issues that were raised in your original study, particularly that citation mutation...