Standing out in a big heap of published research - Research Information
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-24
Summary:
"With so many papers published each year there is great value in actively sharing published work, says Ben Mudrak of Research Square Recent estimates report that more than 2.5 million articles are now published each year in nearly 30,000 journals around the world. With this kind of volume, the old technique of leafing through new journal issues for good content is simply not viable anymore. What began as browsing through tables of contents or library stacks has now become searching on Google Scholar, PubMed, or any number of discipline- or institution-specific platforms. While the ability for any given article to be discovered is getting harder each day, the necessity for being found remains as critical as ever. Career advancement in academia depends on new work being read, cited, and built upon. And science’s impact on society relies on the communication of new findings to the public. With so many articles published that scientists can’t keep up with their own fields, the sharing of science and scholarship with the public is lagging even farther behind ..."