How much is my paper worth?

For scientific research to have an impact, its findings need to be communicated. Usually, such communications take the form of published papers in a journal. Given that most papers are rarely cited, yet consume a great deal of a scientist’s time, treasure, and talent, the value of scientific publica...

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Autor principal: Chernoff, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society for Cell Biology 2019
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31671036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E19-08-0458
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description For scientific research to have an impact, its findings need to be communicated. Usually, such communications take the form of published papers in a journal. Given that most papers are rarely cited, yet consume a great deal of a scientist’s time, treasure, and talent, the value of scientific publication as an enterprise merits consideration. What is a paper really worth? In this Perspective, I consider three potential values: career, science, and society.
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spelling pubmed-68225912020-01-16 How much is my paper worth? Chernoff, Jonathan Mol Biol Cell Perspective For scientific research to have an impact, its findings need to be communicated. Usually, such communications take the form of published papers in a journal. Given that most papers are rarely cited, yet consume a great deal of a scientist’s time, treasure, and talent, the value of scientific publication as an enterprise merits consideration. What is a paper really worth? In this Perspective, I consider three potential values: career, science, and society. The American Society for Cell Biology 2019-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6822591/ /pubmed/31671036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E19-08-0458 Text en © 2019 Chernoff. “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6822591/
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