The definition of exposure science was published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology by Dana Barr (2006): It studies human contact with chemical, physical or biological agents occurring in their environments, and advances knowledge of the mechanisms and dynamics of events either causing or preventing adverse health outcomes.
Although the term datument was originally explicitly coined in a scientific context in 2004 [3], arguably the first true datument on the topic of molecular science was published in a mainstream peer-reviewed chemistry journal had appeared as early as 2001 [4].
A collection of Kuhn's essays in the philosophy and history of science was published in 1977, with the title The Essential Tension taken from one of Kuhn's earliest essays in which he emphasizes the importance of tradition in science.
Most of the formative early research in computer science was published rather than patented, as was the human genome (just).
"My objections are that it sets up a two-tiered system and instead of the best science being published in a timely fashion it will further shift the balance to well-funded labs and groups," Mark Maslin, a biogeographer at University College London, tells ScienceInsider.
Will Storr's latest book, The Heretics: Adventures With The Enemies Of Science, is published by Picador at £8.99.
The focus of the contest was to develop tools for semantic annotation of journals and text-based databases, to improve access to, and sharing of, the knowledge contained within them: in short, to change the way that science is published.
Dr Schekman also delivered an outstanding lecture, and he has recently made a case for changing the way in which science is published, here in the Guardian.
The editors of eLife will continue to look for appropriate ways to enhance the efficiency with which good science is published and bad science is corrected.
The peer-review system is the safeguard science has developed to stop bad science being published".
