Sparks, MA, and Coffman, TM. "The EP4 receptor for prostaglandin E2in glomerular disease: A good receptor turned bad?." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 21, no. 10 (2010): 1597-1599.
Bad journalism and egregious taking quotes out of context -- we expect better of the Journal.
Steven Berkoff's ebooks Bad Guy! Journal of a Hollywood Turkey and Richard II in New York are out now from Publishnation.
As the reverberations from the affair begin to die down, physicists seem to have accepted that the papers are probably just the result of fuzzy thinking, bad writing and journal referees more comfortable with correcting typos than challenging thoughts.
At the same time, journals incentivise bad practice by favouring the publication of results that are considered to be positive, novel, neat and eye-catching.
This doesn't mean that publishing your work in specialty or subspecialty journals is bad.
On the other side, however, this experiment points out not that open-access journals are bad, but rather that some open-access journals do not share the vision of academic journals as important modes of communication among academics (note that the manuscripts were sent only to open-access journals, so we do not know how it would have fared in non-open-access venues).
The occurrence of good or bad news in scientific journals and newspapers was found to be dependent on the news category or type of article.
In 1943 he calls his journal "a bad habit, nothing more".
Now, Mr. Choudhury, 67, charges $25 per class, oversees hundreds of studios on six continents, owns several Rolls-Royces and is called "Yoga's Bad Boy" by Yoga Journal.
