“Being published by the Oxford Press is like being married to a duchess: the honour is greater than the pleasure.”
How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science
A paper can become highly cited because it is good science – or because it is eye-catching, provocative or wrong. Luxury-journal editors know this, so they accept papers that will make waves because they explore sexy subjects or make challenging claims. This influences the science that scientists do. It builds bubbles in fashionable fields where researchers can make the bold claims these journals want, while discouraging other important work, such asreplication studies.
.. Funders and universities, too, have a role to play. They must tell the committees that decide on grants and positions not to judge papers by where they are published. It is the quality of the science, not the journal’s brand, that matters.
HTML5 is the Future of Book Authorship
What HTML5 offers is an escape hatch from a publishing workflow weighed down by conversions, because it’s possible for HTML to serve both as canonical source format and output format for book content: