Giving credit, filtering, and blogs versus traditional research papers
Another post prompted by an exchange of comments on Neil Saunder’s blog. The discussion here started about the somewhat arbitrary nature of what does and does not get counted as ‘worthy contributions’ in the research community. Neil was commenting on an article in Nature Biotech that had similar subject matter to some Blog posts, and he was reflecting on the fact that one would look convincing on a CV and the others wouldn’t. The conversation in the comments drifted somewhat into a discussion of peer review with Maxine (I am presuming Maxine Clarke from Nature?). You should read her comment and the post and other comments in full but I wanted to pick out one bit. Read more »
Posted: March 13th, 2008 under academic credit, filtering, peer review, trust.
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