Gerard R Ridgway

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What are your thoughts on (and experiences with) open post-publication peer-review?

There have been several developments related to post-publication peer-review, commenting and/or evaluation. For example, PubMed Commons, PubPeer, Publons (the latter also offering credit for...

17 July 2014 416 9 View

Reference managers with built-in RSS readers?

I'm looking for a tool that can act as both a reference manager and an RSS reader / news aggregator. Ideally cross-platform (Linux+Mac+Win) or web-based. Ideally using BibTeX or BibLaTeX...

02 June 2014 1,738 5 View

Is there any collected information on the speed of different journals (either time to first decision or time from acceptance to appearance online)?

Journals vary dramatically in how quick they are to make a first decision, and in how quickly they get accepted articles online and/or in print. E.g. some journals make uncorrected proofs...

26 July 2013 4,671 17 View

Why do many journals ask for CMYK figures? Aren't production-office graphics professionals better placed than researchers to do colour-conversion?

Often, instructions for authors make a fuss about wanting figures in CMYK format (referring to cyan, yellow, magenta and black inks which printers use) rather than RGB format (the red, green and...

05 February 2013 7,236 9 View