Open AccessCurating the world’s peer-reviewed literature
Author(s) -
Rew David A
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2012.94.4.219
Subject(s) - bibliometrics , variety (cybernetics) , publishing , citation , data science , computer science , world wide web , quality (philosophy) , peer review , library science , information retrieval , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , law
New technologies are transforming academic publishing, including surgical research. The author considers a variety of the new systems, platforms and search engines that are fuelling this information revolution, as well as the bibliometrics and citation analysis necessary for filtering quality material for the increasingly inundated researcher.