The famous 1954 paper showing the causative link between smoking and lung cancer
Ken Hyland wrote an interesting post (16 May 2023) on the appropriately named LSE Impact Blog, with the melodramatic title “Crucial! New! Essential! – The rise of hype …
Reading Time: 4minutesThe barn-like SEC, where UKSG was held
Now that the UKSG annual conference has got back to something like normality following the pandemic years, it seems a good moment to explore some fundamental questions. What is UKSG for?
Reading Time: 4minutesThe ad-hoc atmosphere: We stood while they stood and presented
The STM Startup Fair (London, 6 December 2022), billed by STM as “our first ever”, was a fascinating event. There were 23 startups, each given five minutes to present what they …
Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? One problem is that new utilities appear almost weekly. It’s challenging for any academic to keep up with what is …
Reading Time: 4minutesNotes and Queries, a journal first published 1849: fascinating, but decidedly quirky. It is still published today, but looks very different
Once upon a time, academic journals were a cornucopia of formats and styles. They were fascinating, as the above …
A welcome return to the NEC (formerly Rave) Conference in London. There was a smaller attendance than in previous years, but as before, the quality of presentations …
Cover of the paperback edition of Nudge (2021,”final” edition)
The traditional measure of academic significance, invented way back in the 1960s, is the citation index. If a paper is cited, then it has significance for other researchers. If we count the …
