The article reports on the resignation of Bambang Parmanto, the editor-in-chief of "The Open Information Science Journal" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It notes that the Parmanto claimed the its publisher Bentham Science Publishing received a fake article without his knowledge. Mahmood Alam, director of publications at Bentham Science Publishing emphasizes the conviction of submitting fake manuscripts because of its being unethical.
The article discusses that the flagship journal "K-theory" has been split up into a strange dispute after mathematician Anthony Bak withheld all the received papers for its publication in Germany. It states that Bak left the journal because of production problems and high subscription rate. Then, he arranged to introduce a rival title with other publisher that offer lower subscription rate. The journal publisher fired Bak because of this illegal act. Meanwhile, information on the reactions of the editors on this initiative is offered.
Although many factors affect speed of publication, surely time lost by scientists and scientist-editors on formatting journal-specific reference sections is one of the most frustrating. The bibliographic software developed to assist with formatting citations only encourages the problem, in that individuals and institutions are compelled to spend their limited money on products that require scientists to spend time learning software rather than doing research. A common citation format, familiar to all, would be sensible. Coordination could be undertaken by an organization such as the International Council for Science via its committee on dissemination of scientific information, or the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
The article describes the writings featured in "Nurture," which is the magazine for "Nature" journal authors. The latest edition of "Nurture" features articles on authors and editors of the "Nature" journals. The print edition of the magazine is sent to authors who have published a paper in the previous year. The copy is also available as a digital edition.
Reports on interns' experiences as editors in scientific journals. Cell biologist Jon Reynolds at "Nature Cell Biology"; Cancer biologist Nadia Cervoni at "Nature Biotechnology"; Neuroscientist Stacie Grossman at "Nature Medicine"; Observation that these experiences helped them prepare for their current roles in publishing.
The article reports that most state-of-the-art applications embed information about the creator of the document with the normally invisible metadata of the file. It has been noted that these metadata can easily be viewed, providing the use with the account information associated with the specific computer used to generate the document. Authors, journal editors and publishers need to be cautious about how the anonymous information is transmitted between the creator and the recipient.