Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Impact factor

Journal Impact Versus Paper Impact

Blogger Prodigal Academic suggested that when you are choosing where to submit a manuscript, it is important to consider the target audience of who is most likely to actually read it rather than just the overall impact factor of the scientific journal. S. Pelech comments that the speciality focus of a journal now has relatively little impact on whether members of the scientific community will notice a publication. Rather, most researchers find scientific papers through PubMed, Google and other search engines and those publications with open-access are likely to receive the widest dissemination. Read More...