Category Archives: publication

Publication and Publicity

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Chris Rowan

What’s a science blogger to do when the media is awash with stories about a paper that hasn’t been published yet? This was the dilemma I was faced with last week when I started reading stories about

Categories: public science, publication

Brian’s had the cool idea of summarising some of his pending scientific papers using tag clouds, and I’m joining Lab Lemming, ReBecca and Maria in jumping on the bandwagon. The following two clouds, which may or may not provide some … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, publication

Nature Geoscience: cutting edge or consolation prize?

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Chris Rowan

This month saw the launch of the first issue of Nature‘s latest specialist offshoot, Nature Geoscience. This is a monthly publication presumably designed to act as a clearing house for those contributions which don’t quite have the pizzazz to make … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, geology, publication

Resubmission

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Long-term readers of this blog may recall that just before I moved out to Johannesburg (and onto Scienceblogs), I got back some rather robust reviews for two papers based on my PhD research which I’d submitted some months previously. Although … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, publication

In defence of the scientific paper

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Chris Rowan

Janet brings us some rather vitriolic criticism by Sir Peter Medewar: The scientific paper in its orthodox form does embody a totally mistaken conception, even a travesty, of the nature of scientific thought. The argument seems to be that the … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, public science, publication