Research Roundup: The benefits of open research, citation distributions and more | PLOScast
lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-07-13
Summary:
"A paper posted to BioRxiv provides an analysis of citation distributions to demonstrate that papers with very different impact factors can end up with the same number of citations."
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"There is another arXiv in town! This time for sociologists. SocArXiv, a new Open Access preprint server, will allow sociologists to review and comment on each other’s work."
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"The Wellcome Trust is launching their own platform, Wellcome Open Research, which will allow authors to publish various types of research."