December has seen good growth in the number of blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, with 10 blogs joining in the last three weeks. Here you can find all Rogue Scholar blogs, sorted by join date, and the December 2024 additions are listed below.
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar was relaunched on the InvenioRDM repository platform last week. While there is still a lot of migration work to do in the coming months, this is a good time to start the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive today.
Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin.
If you are into openscience chemistry or chemistry blogging, then you probably heard of Rich Apodaca’s Depth-First blog. Rich started blogging in 2006 but this is not how I discovered his work originally.
Don’t allow your writing to be tied to one platform – register your science-related blog with Rogue Scholar, the free blog indexing service helping bring science blogs into scholarly database infrastructure.
I am sick of impact factors and so is science. The impact factor might have started out as a good idea, but its time has come and gone. Conceived by Eugene Garfield in the 1970s as a useful tool for research libraries to judge the relative merits of journals when allocating their subscription budgets, the impact factor is calculated annually as the mean number of citations to articles published in any given journal in the two preceding years.