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We need to talk about Twitter…
As part of Materials Week at the University of Warwick, I was asked to talk about social media and how it is used by scientists (and of course I threw in a bit about how journals use it too). Because … Continue reading
Posted in Journal stuff
Tagged blogging, chemistry, facebook, social media, talks, tocrofl, tumblr, twitter
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Chemistry journal citation distributions
Over at my day job, I recently looked at the distribution of citations that 2012 and 2013 Nature Chemistry papers (Articles, Reviews and Perspectives) received in 2014 – essentially the citations that are used to calculate the 2014 impact factor … Continue reading
Back to the future (of chemistry publishing)
So, here’s my obligatory Back-to-the-Future Day post and, because it is me doing this, it’s obviously about chemistry publishing. I figured I’d compare one issue of a journal published in 1985, with an issue published in 2015. Because the last … Continue reading
Posted in Carnivals, Fun, History of science, Publishing
Tagged angewandte chemie, authorship, back to the future day, chemistry, chemistry publishing, editorial, papers, publishing
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All your base are belong to JACS
This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s that looked at word clouds made up from the titles of JACS papers from the last 115 years. Jake Yeston commented on Twitter about the lack of catalysis-based words in the clouds. This … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged acids, bases, catalysis, chemistry, chemistry publishing, jacs, language, publishing, synthesis, titles, twitter, word clouds
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