Having just completed review of a manuscript that profiled a prominent scientist in my field from the 20th century, it got me thinking openly. Firstly, I rarely read profiles of long deceased scientists in my field, frankly who but perhaps the odd emeritus professor (with all due respect) would have time on their hands to …
Category Archive: publishing
Sep
15
Mistakes in manuscript reviewing 101: how to cloak your identity
A recent example got me thinking more about how anonymous reviewers could do a far better job of being well, “anonymous”. One such reviewer happened to request the mention of some specific type of molecular descriptor property. The lead author on the manuscript with very minimal effort was able to identify the lab that most …
Jul
30
My experience of submitting another manuscript to PLOSONE
Its been several years since I last submitted to PLOSONE . Since then we embarked on a Phase II grant working on tuberculosis and after much work by many labs at Rutgers and SRI we are now submitting the work today. So we decided to give PLOSONE a second chance. In the interim I have …
Jun
26
Viva Collaboration! A new paper in a PLOS journal – and epic responses to reviewers
I am excited to say our new paper on Chagas Disease just published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. This was a relatively painless process compared to previous PLOS experiences. We submitted March 31, had reviews back by May 8th and the paper was finally accepted June 5th after some back and forth. We did have some …
May
26
A triple life in science
Ever since embarking on my pretty unusual career path in leaving big pharma in 2001, I have been faced with several forks in the road, hard decisions on which way to go. To join a software company or not? work with university spin out? – some were good decisions others less so. Since 2008 I …
May
20
My experiences reviewing at PLOS
While I am a supporter and proponent of open accessing publishing, I have in the past been fairly critical of some of these journals, in particular PLOS. Even though I still publish in their journals I have held off from PLOS ONE in favor of F1000Research who I feel have a better publishing – reviewing …
Mar
22
What warrants an erratum and why the old publishing model must change
Friday AM my day started with an email which I have marked up and added links to Dear Dr. Ekins: It has come to our attention that an error was identified in your recent Perspective entitled “The parallel worlds of public and commercial bioactive chemistry data” published in the March 12, 2015 issue of the …
Dec
15
A year in publications – 2014
A year in collaborative publications, the ups and downs and a few random comments as well (with a big thanks to all involved): 1. Ekins S and Freundlich JS and Coffee M, A common feature pharmacophore for FDA-approved drugs inhibiting the Ebola virus, F1000research, 3: 277, 2014. This came initially from a Twitter exchange of …
Dec
04
Chemical probes and parallel database worlds – who wants to know? More publishing fun
This post is long and a highly detailed description of the challenges involved in getting scientific work published on one level, on another it gets to the heart of discoverability of data, data analysis and just the slog of publishing something that you hope is going to interest others in your direct field. …
Sep
19
Promoting younger scientists to editorial boards of journals
Today I realized I am in the fortunate position to be on the editorial boards of several journals and that I have a “voice”. Then I realized I am no longer a young scientist, I am 44..What about those that are doing their postdocs in their mid 20’s when do they get a voice in …
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