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  • The diverse world of citation indexing services - 21st July 2014
  • From butterfly wing patterns to epigenetic clocks – a year in review from Biome - 7th May 2014
  • Discovery notes – brief research findings, published fast - 21st March 2014

The diverse world of citation indexing services

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21/07/2014

Research in progress blog

When assessing the impact of a published research article, it might seem logical to look at the Impact Factor of the journal that you find it in. But as… Read more »

From butterfly wing patterns to epigenetic clocks – a year in review from Biome

Butterfly wing patterns

07/05/2014

Research in progress blog

To mark its first year, BioMed Central’s online magazine Biome has pulled together some of their highlights from the last 12 months. Biome is designed for the… Read more »

Discovery notes – brief research findings, published fast

21/03/2014

Research in progress blog

Most researchers will tell you that, at some point, they have had a bad experience with peer review, which at its worst is a slow, oblique process which… Read more »

How should citizen science be published? A debate at Citizen Cyberscience Summit 2014

Fraxinus - each player contributes small but useful data helping to understand the cause and susceptibility to the ash dieback fungus

19/02/2014

Research in progress blog

Citizen science - the public participation in gathering data for scientific studies - is certainly not new, but facilitated by the ease of sharing information… Read more »

Biome – BioMed Central’s new magazine

14/06/2013

Research in progress blog

With the recent launch of our new online magazine Biome, we are bringing together a selection of highlights from BioMed Central journals and, in various ways,… Read more »

Can open peer review work? Biology Direct suggests it can…

02/05/2013

Research in progress blog

Peer review is a process integral to the scientific research cycle, and, for the majority of biology journals, one that takes place behind closed doors. In… Read more »

The growth of open access journals – an Open Access Week twitter chat

02/11/2012

Research in progress blog

To conclude Open Access Week 2012, BMC Medicine hosted a twitter chat with Stephen Curry, Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk to discuss the growth and future… Read more »

Open Access Week – highlights, and looking ahead

25/10/2012

Research in progress blog

BMC Medicine kicked off their Open Access Week activities with the publication of a research article looking at the changing landscape of open access scientific… Read more »

Assessing research impact at the article level

25/05/2012

Research in progress blog

The impact of academic research has long been measured using citations, often with the Journal Impact Factor being used to assess individual publications within… Read more »

Newly discovered viral genome has implications for theories of viral evolution

19/04/2012

On Biology

A ‘fishing expedition’ in an acidic, high temperature lake has led to the discovery of a previously unknown group of viruses, which might change the way we… Read more »

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