Given the observation about BMJ's successful commenting system, is this all simply a case of impact factor? The better journals attracting more comments, rather than anything else? How does number of comments on individual articles compare with number of citations?...

Nice work, Euan!For the non-consensus decisions, I think you might find that a lot of those fall into two categories. Many bonus links WERE comments by the author. I had kind of a hard time with that when annotating them....

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Exactly a week ago I was on my way to O'Reilly's Foo Camp in Sebastopol, so it's about time I posted some notes about a few of the amazing people I met during and since that event: Beth Noveck told......

For anyone who's interested here is Nature Publishing Group's (NPG's) take on PRISM: Although Nature America is a member of the AAP, we are not involved in PRISM and we have not been consulted about it. NPG has supported self-archiving......

I'm about to climb on a plane to travel to what I expect will be the most amazing scientific meeting I've ever attended. What would be your ideal scientific conference? It's a thought game I've sometimes played. Naturally, some......

Sometimes things just don't seem to make sense to me. Social networks seem to sprout like mushrooms on a damp log and I wonder if they're used, useful and sustainable.Nature BlogsTake Nature.com Blogs as a first example. It's supposedly a place where users...

A busy week in the Nature Chemistry office: Anne has just returned from a tour of Japanese universities, Stu is about to head off to Bath for Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment 08, Gav's already in Grenoble for ElecMol 08, Steve's visiting Harvard tomorrow...

Euan analyzed connectivity of science blogs using their blogrolls, revealing a Big Head, a Skinny Neck and a Long Tail, as expected in every community. Linkfests, carnivals, aggregators, commenting on each other's blogs, signing up for ResearchBlogging.org,...