Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants

PROLOGUE From JMIR Publications' email inbox - daily emails from authors (incl the developed world!) requests to waive the article fees because authors don't have funding and THERE IS NO INST...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-insanity-and-probably-illegality-of.html

Clarivate (formerly the IP Division of Thomson Reuters) has released its' impact factors for 2016, which reflect how often papers published in 2014-2015 were cited in 2016. THE IMPACT FACTOR OF...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2017/06/impact-factors-2016-in-medical.html

(Toronto, 29 July 2014) Today the 2013 journal impact factors (JIF) were released by Thomson Reuters. FOR THE FIFTH YEAR THE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH (JMIR, WWW.JMIR.ORG) , the flags...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2014/07/impact-factors-2013-medical-informatics.html

A new paper in JASIST by Stefanie Haustein, Isabella Peters, Cassidy R Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, and Vincent Lariviere (Tweeting Biomedicine: An analysis of Tweets and Citations in the Biomedica...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2013/12/on-jasist-haustein-paper-on-tweets-and.html

This week, the journal Science has published a news article about the apparent lack of proper peer-review at many open access journals. The author, contributing Science reporter John Bohannon...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2013/10/unscientific-spoof-paper-accepted-by.html

As (to our knowledge) the first journal in the world, the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) started in 2007 to offer a "paid fast-track" (FT) option, where authors pay an extra fee if ...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2011/07/jmirs-fast-track-experiment-innovations.html

(Toronto, June 29th, 2011) The new JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research) Impact Factor for 2010 (released in June 2011 by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports) has further increased to...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2011/06/impact-factors-of-medical-informatics.html

A group of doctors, scientists and medical students who write Wikipedia's medical articles and are involved in the Wikiproject Medicine have issued a "call to arms", calling on their peers to joi...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2011/02/call-to-arms-from-wikipedia-doctors.html

To celebrate Open Access weeks, we have created a Webinar (slideshare presentation with audio track), chronicling the 12 year journey of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, one of the pione...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2010/10/open-access-week-webinar-about-journal.html

In my capacity as founding editor and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) , and open access advocate since over a decade, I am proud to have been honored with the first...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/08/first-pkp-award-for-editors-to-gunther.html

I am still shaken and thrilled by yesterdays' big news: The Open Access publication Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR ), which I created 10 years ago, has now established itself as THE ...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-access-journal-jmir-rises-to-top.html

In a previous post I already gave an example of the kind of research we are doing using the Infovigil system - an infodemiology/infoveillance system, which we are developing in cooperation with...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/05/swine-flu-vs-h1n1-terminology-tweets.html

Is Twitter fueling panic and misinformation? (Image Source: Posible caso de influenza , (C) Hello32020, licensed under CC-by license) Recent media reports (e.g. on CNN and USA Today ) suggest...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/05/reports-on-twitter-fuelling-h1n1swine.html

I just finished reading a fascinating book chapter "The ethnic theory of plane crashes" in Malcolm Gladwells book Outliers . Malcolms argument is that > The single most important variabl...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/05/patient-empowerment-and-power-distance.html

Today, the Medicine 2.0'09 conference opened its abstract submission system for presentation proposals for this years' conference (Sept 17-18th. 2009, Toronto). The deadline is May 15th, 2009....

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/04/medicine-2009-abstract-submission-now.html

As twitter and microblogging is gaining momentum as a social phenomenon, a number of researchers start wondering how to cite tweets (for example here ) and how to cite a whole thread (series of t...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-cite-twitter-how-to-cite-tweets.html

Stephen ] has just blogged about the Libertas Academica table on Article Processing Charges ] (which by the way seems to be swiped -without attribution- from the Biomed Central comparison table...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/11/article-processing-fees-and-open-access.html

Today, the Toronto Star published an article about Web-based behavior change programs - with a picture of me in front of my whiteboard in my office. I talked to the reporter about the pros an...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/11/ehealth-web-based-behavior-change.html

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada has just announced that the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) (which I publish) will receive a $90.000 grant over ...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-access-journal-jmir-funded-by.html

See also: Robert Lemos. Sick Searchers Help Track Flu. MIT Technology Review, Nov 12 ] ---- I am currently in a mild state of shock. A couple of years ago - when Google.org was just created and ...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-uses-searches-to-track-flus.html

Today is Open Access Day (Accessed: 2008-10-14. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5bZ5360OL). After many months of discussions and work we used this symbolic date to launch th...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/10/founding-open-access-scholarly.html

Yesterday, Ivor Kovic and colleagues published the paper "Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers" in the Medicine 2.0 Theme Issue of the Journal of Medical Inte...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/09/medical-blogging.html

After the immensely successful Medicine 2.0'08 conference on Sept 4/5th, 2008, we have now set the date for the next Medicine 2.0'09 conference: Sept 17-18, 2009 (same venue, i.e. the MaRS Centr...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/09/date-for-medicine-2009-set.html

One of the most inspiring presentations at the Medicine 2.0'08 conference was a presentation by Luis Fernandez Luque , which included a YouTube video by a patient, Lauren Parrot, specifically r...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/09/patient-involvement-through-youtube-at.html

Just published: Over 800 photos from the first international Medicine 2.0 congress, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/30211781@N04/sets/72157607120617918/ All pictures are (c) G. Eysenbach, lice...

http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2008/09/medicine-20-photos-on-flickr.html