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"Disruptive action in scholarly publishing [...] hopefully legal" love it! I'm along for the ride! - Björn Brembs

Nice one: "IFs are per journal. This about as meaningful a measure of worth as deciding that a person is well-dressed because they shop at a given store. You can be badly dressed with expensive cloths and vice versa. ". Might just borrow this analogy for a future presentation..... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Just booked my flight. w00t! - Heather Piwowar

@Cameron. That would be fantastic, FigShare is a perfect 5 minute filler and great follow up to Dryad!... and any questions people have following your talk just point them in my direction. No prep needed whatsoever! :) But honestly, any shout outs would be greatly appreciated. @Heather, I'll be tweet stalking you on Monday then :) - science3point0

Updated my Link to Link Wordpress plugin to now use a simplified version of CiTO. - Martin Fenner

Egon, I thought about this too. It makes a lot of sense to create the code ResearchBlogging needs with a Wordpress plugin. I will look into this when I start working on a plugin that creates a bibliography in March. - Martin Fenner

CITATION TOOLS & FUTURE OF PUBLISHING http://www.carlboettiger.info/archive... #librarians #science #research - Patricia F. Anderson

great read! Will be adding it to the first day's reading for the thesis students:-). - Mickey Schafer

* is sheepish* - Bill Hooker

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 11. (03 November 2010), pp. 482-488. The reciprocal interactions with others that play such a significant part in our lives depend upon trust; individuals need to be confident that their partners are cooperative, and that they will return favours. Reputation permits the choice of better partners and provides incentives to be more cooperative. These uses of reputation are not unique to humans. However, in complex human societies, with large numbers of potential partners, keeping track of each other's reputation is a vital part of everyday life, and, in an inevitable arms race, ever more powerful strategies of reputation management are being developed. In this article, we bring together insights from different disciplines to throw new light onto the importance and scope of reputation management. Claudio Tennie, Uta Frith, Chris Frith - Björn Brembs

Yes please. And thank you for the links Mummi. - Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner talking about research reputation in the context of author identifiers. - Cameron Neylon

The Django book comment system looks very nice, but not that different from the Wordpress paragraph-level comment systems. Digress.it is another one http://digress.it/ - Martin Fenner

"I can't help noticing that we're not the only site to have serious problems with Google search results in the last few months. In fact, the drum beat of deteriorating Google search quality has been practically deafening of late..." - Rich Apodaca

A Google Scholar Universal Gadget which enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index. - Pierre Lindenbaum

kinda of works for me but I have reasonably unique name - Pedro Beltrao

pq: "Today, too many of our postdocs believe that getting a paper into a prestigious journal is more important to their career than doing the science itself." - Björn Brembs

Quote: "We'll be very interested to hear from you when you publish this research in a journal with an impact factor >10" (heard this exact number from a couple of people, and IF >12 from another person). - Mickey Kosloff

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy... - Eric Jain

Does one actually have an option? You need 20 years of experience to get tenure, because there is always one who does... this system sucks big time... effectively we tenure people who haven't given up, instead of the best candidates... - Egon Willighagen

Two is too many , unless they are very short. I general not knowing what to do and using multiple postdocs to figure things out can be regarded as a weakness. That said you can do more than two if you want to pick up a new technique or find a mentor who is worth the one additional postdoc label - Hari

Something missing at the end, innit? - 'Mummi' Thorisson

There's a part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Björn Brembs

has anything happened since this article in September? - Jennifer Melinn

I hope that there is more to report at the next ORCID Participant meeting November 18 in London. - Martin Fenner

Every student is assigned several journals he is 'responsible' for. Once a week each student sends an email to the group with relevant abstracts. Every other week there is a JC meeting in which a student chooses an interesting paper (on his own) presents it and lead a discussion about it. In the week between a student gives a 'research progress' meeting instead. PI is present in all of... more... - Nir London

Our JC is organised centrally and informally. Papers are either picked by the three organisers (all non-PI) or suggested by any of the participants. Articles are then circulated via a closed mailing list and (should be) read by all. Discussion is moderated by the organisers who also give an informal summary in the beginning. Afterwards, conclusions are published on the JC's website.... more... - Arnulf Koehncke

Interesting. But as they themselves note the tool is limited by, obviously, duplicate publication entries in the Mendeley collection + ambiguous author names. The engine "queries the data provider's API for articles matching a given author string". I am not going to bother paying much attention to any of these tools unless there at least *some* basic attempt at resolving author names. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Like Rod Page (http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010...), I'm in there multiple times: http://readermeter.org/Thoriss... and http://readermeter.org/Thoriss... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

The conversation between Martin and Christian Specht is a gem. This is what the internets are *for*. - Bill Hooker

"Assuming that you are not constantly changing topics": schistosomiasis --> HIV replication --> iron homeostasis --> Ebox signaling networks --> HIV diagnostics. In the first two (phd and first postdoc) and in the Ebox work (last postdoc), I probably did have e.g. 100 well understood papers that I had read carefully and cited regularly. But that was the foundational stuff; there are... more... - Bill Hooker

More precisely: I have an agenda, some ideas, and a possible line on about this amount of money. Am interested in any ideas on how most effectively to create change with about this resource and anyone who is interested in taking part (with the caveat that this is not a whole lot of money if it gets split a lot of ways). - Cameron Neylon

Sorry for arriving late to the conversation, I've been dipping out, but I'd like to reaffirm Daniels sentiments and would happily offer S3.0 be It as a hosting service to the proof of principle or to act as an infrastructure organisation, either in it's current format or in a tailor made format for those involved, closed group etc - science3point0 from iPhone

"One way to accomplish this would be a new generation of review impact indexes, based on information provided by publishers (3, 5). Effectiveness in peer-reviewing should be viewed as an essential skill to acquire for Ph.D. students, worldwide. Journals should demand that for every paper submitted, an author provide three reviews of other manuscripts. Perhaps if authors knew that their reviewing workload would increase dramatically with the number of papers they submit, they would craft fewer and better papers, ultimately benefiting all involved." - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

I've reviewed more than three times as many papers as I've submitted, but not at any one journal. For the "review 3 to submit 1" rule to work, publishers would have to cooperate and recognize reciprocal review credits. I don't see that happening somehow. - Bill Hooker

"Our work in building large-scale reputation systems suggests that it may be possible to build such a system on two pillars: a system of incentives for authors of papers and reviews alike, and a content-driven way of measuring merit and attributing rewards. The reputation of people as authors would depend, as usual, on their publishing works of high measured value. And crucially, the reputation of people as reviewers would depend on their ability to be early reliable predictors of the future value of a work. Thus, two skills would be required of a successful reviewer: the ability to produce reviews that are later deemed by the community to be accurate, and the ability to do so early, anticipating the consensus. This is the main factor that would drive well-respected people to act as talent scouts, and to review freshly published papers, rather than piling up on works by famous authors. Reviews would be ranked by reputation, thus diminishing irrelevant comments, as Amazon has shown it is possible to do." - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet

Thanks: http://pirsa.org/08090036/ - Eric Jain

absolutely - Graham Steel

kewl :) - Graham Steel

Where is this from? - Cameron Neylon

Ah, yes, branding. I forget how much those within an institution care about it (relative to how little those outside care.) - Mr. Gunn

Richard Stallman and Richard Grant, two people who I wouldn’t ever have expected to group together except based on their first name, have recently published articles that have made me think about what we mean when we talk about “Open” stuff. Stallman's piece argues that the word "open" is limiting and misleading. But I feel the same way in many ways about "free". Richard Grant's piece probes the problems of making services open-access, making precisely the point that they are not free. Clearly they are not, and pretending they are is a dangerous way to justify access and accessibility. For me, it is a question of how best to invest to maximise your return. - Cameron Neylon

@Heather - I find it very easy to build up these abstractions in my head built around definitions and then forget other people don't have the same constructs. Free/Open is a classic example but I keep having to remind myself of how differently other people think (half the reason for the post really - partly directed at myself) - Cameron Neylon

I hope that ORCID becomes more visible by becoming a non-profit organization. And with a board of directors you now have people you can contact with questions or suggestions. Please do. - Martin Fenner

Congratulations, Martin! So sorry I will be in Milan at ESMO when you are next over here :( - Sally Church