Colloquium on Rethinking the Future of Scientific Communication
Author(s) -
Nader Rifai,
Michael A. Keller,
John Sack
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1530-8561
pISSN - 0009-9147
DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2012.190140
Subject(s) - scientific communication , engineering ethics , medicine , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , engineering
The format of communicating scientific information through professional journals has changed very little since the late 19th century. Recent advances in information technology have revolutionized the search and discovery of scientific information, yet neither the migration from paper to electronic publishing nor the explosion of social media tools has substantially altered the basic format for presenting scientific findings. By comparison, the popular press has undergone a transformation to better present and relay complex information to general readers, whose expectations about how to find and use …
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