Editors’ clubs benefit researchers and trainees

Researchers and Editors at the Heart of Science Communication

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Writing and editing scholarly articles for prestigious international journals is a daunting task for novice researchers and seasoned authors alike. It's not all about accurate processing of available evidence, structuring texts, carefully wording sentences ,...

The CROWN Initiative: Journal Editors Invite Researchers to Develop Core Outcomes in Women

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This paper deals with two examples of macro-regions in the EU: the Benelux and the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). Building on the distinction between “old” and “new” regionalism, it discusses some characteristics of regions in general, and of sub-integration schemes within the EU in particular. These characteristics are applied to the two regions at hand. From this application it foll...

Developing the next generation of dissemination and implementation researchers: insights from initial trainees

BACKGROUND Dissemination and implementation (D&I) research is a relatively young discipline, underscoring the importance of training and career development in building and sustaining the field. As such, D&I research faces several challenges in designing formal training programs and guidance for career development. A cohort of early-stage investigators (ESI) recently involved in an implementatio...

Bureaucrats, researchers, editors, and the impact factor ‐ a vicious circle that is detrimental to science

The impact factor, a measure of the ‘‘mean citedness’’ of articles in a scientific journal, is a tool for the comparison of journals that was used only by a few bibliometricians. In recent years however, the impact factor has become a popular instrument for research evaluation. Bureaucrats in universities and research agencies use it as a surrogate for the actual citation count to measure the s...