“How’s my paper doing?” It’s such a simple question, and in today’s hyperconnected world it’s relatively easy to work out who’s reading and talking about your scientific publications. But are there conversations you might be overlooking?
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To match this month’s Windback Wednesday series on publishing, Julie Gould speaks to Euan Adie, director at Altmetric, and Alex Hodgson, head of marketing at ReadCube in this podcast about scientific publishing and a digital future.
Technology is changing fast, and it is having an effect on the way you can access, discover and share scientific publications. Euan, Alex and I discuss how we predict these three things will be changing.
Alex Hodgson makes a good point that we can look at the changes in how scientific papers are discovered and read. It used to be all about the printed word – it was easy, flexible and simple to manage. Now things are read online via databases. “If you stop to think about that, I mean, that’s a really big shift from more of a journal focus to more of a specific article focus.” And in order to read these papers, tools have become available that let scientists to “sift through the noise so that you’re not missing an important paper.”
