on november 1st  2016, springer nature announced that springer and biomed central are retracting 58 articles published by iran-based authors across seven journals. the decision was made after thorough investigation following receiving allegations of plagiarism, peer review, and authorship manipulation in an effort to mislead the review system (1, 2). not all papers were involved with all of the...

The research field of altmetrics has gathered increased attention within scientometrics. Here, we pay particular attention to the connection between countries of readers of papers (at Mendeley) and countries of authors as well as citers of papers (from Web of Science). This study uses the Mendeley application programming interface to gather Mendeley reader statistics for the comprehensive F1000...

A k-core of a graph is a maximal subgraph whose nodes have degree at least k in that subgraph. A node can appear in multiple k-cores. The core number of a node is the largest k among its k-cores. The degeneracy of a graph is the maximum core number among its nodes. Applications of k-cores and core numbers are numerous, including community detection and modeling spread on a network. We present a...

INTRODUCTION Peer review, a cornerstone of academia, promotes rigor and relevance in scientific publishing. As educators are encouraged to adopt a more scholarly approach to medical education, peer review is becoming increasingly important. Junior educators both receive the reviews of their peers, and are also asked to participate as reviewers themselves. As such, it is imperative for junior cl...

I recently gave a lecture to the faculty and house officers in my department on the topic of submitting a manuscript for publication. I covered how to choose a journal, the importance of following the instructions for authors, responsibilities of authorship, communications with the editor, misuse of figures and tables, linking cited references to Medline and PubMed, what happens at the journal ...

A uthorship of research papers is a thorny and sometimes quarrelsome issue. Many long-term researchers have, at some point, encountered different cultural and ethical outlooks on authorship. Some might even have been in situations where authorship disputes occurred, perhaps due to such differences. To nonacademics and nonresearchers, the entire notion of authorship might (perhaps rightly) seem ...

The first two papers on optimal foraging theory, one by Robert MacArthur and Eric Pianka and the other by John Merritt Emlen, were published back-to-back in the November-December 1966 issue of the American Naturalist. Both papers are among the most frequently cited papers on foraging theory (having been cited 1079 and 504 times, respectively as of 8-5-05). The circumstances of authorship were d...