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Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century

Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century

Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.

The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists

The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists

While social media is a valuable tool for outreach and the sharing of ideas, there is a danger that this form of communication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.