Welcome to Things we read this week, a weekly post featuring articles from around the internet recommended by BMJ Labs.
Publishing
- BMJ announces its partnership with
@Yale and@CSHL to launch medRxiv, a new preprint server for faster access to better evidence . . . Read “a new preprint server for medicine”. - Different industry but a good article from David Deahl highlighting the importance of accurate metadata
- The Authority File podcast has a nice summary of Trends in Teaching and Research Workflows
- Now we know why our style guide insists on losing most hyphens! “Hyphens in paper titles harm citation counts and journal impact factors” or maybe that skews the results a bit 🤔
- Phil Gooch, Scholarcy and Scite are doing interesting things with sentiment analysis of citations:
More to come – what did the cited source find/claim? pic.twitter.com/KoczhhyiGS
— Phil Gooch (@Phil_Gooch) June 5, 2019
- Justin E. H. Smith is concerned about the perils of social media for scholarship whilst David Moher is thinking about the altmetrics that should be a Researcher’s CV:
A researcher's CV of the 21st century should include social media metrics of publications, or information on open data, societal benefit or an impact story, @dmoher argues at #WCRI2019 pic.twitter.com/fcSUSCOpEa
— Hinnerk Feldwisch (@hfeldwisch) June 3, 2019
Health Tech
Thoughtful article by Maxine Mackintosh about the 23andMe and AirBnB partnership
Tech
Loads of interesting data in the new Ofcom report about media use and attitudes in the UK. It contains the sobering stat:
“One in three adults never use a computer to go online and one in ten only use a smartphone, an increase since 2017.”
And finally…
A chart from from 1973 in Scientific American showing that a person on a bicycle the most efficient among man and machines.  Steve Jobs said “the computer … is the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds”
This famous chart from 1973 was a favourite of Steven Jobs. A person on a #bicycle moves more efficient than animals, fighter jets or locomotives. Source: https://t.co/zwjdzUw4Vj pic.twitter.com/jTKmPin3to
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 21, 2018