The science behind what makes a bestselling book
This post has been cross-posted from the SpringerOpen blog.
A team of researchers from Northeastern University, Boston, used a big data approach to investigate what makes a book successful. By evaluating data from the New York Times Bestseller Lists from 2008 to 2016, they developed a formula to predict if a book would be a bestseller.
Creating the formula for success
The authors evaluated sales numbers and patterns from 2,468 fiction titles and 2,025 non-fiction titles from the New York Times Bestseller Lists 2008-2016 to create their formula for predicting how well a book would sell and whether it would be a bestseller. ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - April 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lucy Eccles Tags: Publishing Books SpringerOpen Source Type: blogs
Welcoming Molecular Medicine
Margot Puerta, Executive Editor and Rosamaria Ruggieri, Managing Editor
Can you tell us a bit more about the history of Molecular Medicine?
Molecular Medicine was introduced in 1994 by Anthony Cerami, PhD and Kenneth Warren, MD. The goal was to create a forum through which biomedical researchers and clinicians could communicate recent discoveries to a multidisciplinary audience interested in understanding and curing disease. The field and the journal have both excelled, with several significant advances published in Molecular Medicine.
In 2013, we established two prizes to honor accomplishments in the field of molecular ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alice Ridgway Tags: Medicine Open Access Publishing Molecular Medicine Source Type: blogs
Welcoming Bioelectronic Medicine
Valentin A. Pavlov, Managing Editor and Margot Puerta, Executive Editor
Can you tell us a bit more about the aims and history of Bioelectronic Medicine?
The field of bioelectronic medicine comprises basic research identifying the mechanisms of neural regulation and their translation into new treatments for many diseases and conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and paralyses.
The first successful examples of this translational approach are the recent clinical trials with vagus nerve stimulation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. The team-based efforts of immunologists, neur...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 15, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alice Ridgway Tags: Medicine Open Access Publishing Bioelectronic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Miss Kentucky would like you to please pay attention to the board
Picture a girl from Kentucky. She works hard in school, excels in her studies, and graduates from Vanderbilt with a degree in science.
Picture another girl from Kentucky. She enters beauty pageants, practices with friends and family, and wins the Miss Kentucky crown in 2017 as a senior in college.
You might be picturing two very separate individuals, but they are in fact the same person.
Madelynne Grace Myers seems to live two separate lives, but in reality she lives the life of a true millennial; breaking the stereotypical mold for no other reason than it should not exist to begin with.
Myers attended an all girls school ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Faye Nourollahi Tags: Uncategorized International Women's Day miss kentucky STEM women in science Source Type: blogs
#MeToo: The Life of a Lady in the Sciences
Picture a girl from Kentucky. She works hard in school, excels in her studies, and graduates from Vanderbilt with a degree in science.
Picture another girl from Kentucky. She enters beauty pageants, practices with friends and family, and wins the Miss Kentucky crown in 2017 as a senior in college.
You might be picturing two very separate individuals, but they are in fact the same person.
Madelynne Grace Myers seems to live two separate lives, but in reality she lives the life of a true millennial; breaking the stereotypical mold for no other reason than it should not exist to begin with.
Myers attended an all girls school ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Faye Nourollahi Tags: Uncategorized International Women's Day miss kentucky STEM women in science Source Type: blogs
International Women ’s day: women that pressed for progress
Wireless technology
Wi-fi is all around us, in our homes, workplaces, cafes, and in many countries readily available in public spaces. However it was the technological advances from Hedy Lamarr in the 1940’s that revolutionized mobile communications.
Hedy was a Vienna born Hollywood actress and together with her business partner and composer George Antheil, received a patent for a ‘secret communication system’ in 1942. This system known as frequency hopping, involved radio signals rapidly changing frequencies with only the sender and the receiver knowing the sequence. Originally designed for radio-guided torpedoes, f...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nwoza Eshun Tags: Technology International Women's Day Invention Source Type: blogs
Research integrity training by stealth
The success of the whole research enterprise relies on the integrity of academics. At an absolute minimum, there is an expectation that researchers don’t fabricate or falsify their data, and don’t plagiarize the work of others. More than that, there is an expectation that researchers work responsibly – according to accepted standards and regulatory codes of practice. And ultimately, researchers should act with real integrity – transparently, openly, fairly, and for the benefit of society.
Avoiding misconduct is one thing, but research integrity in that last sense is a tricky business. Researchers face many pressure...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - February 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mark Hooper, Ginny Barbour & Stephanie Bradbury Tags: Medical Evidence Publishing peer review research integrity Research Integrity and Peer Review Source Type: blogs
Key Takeaways from #SpotOn17
This blog has been cross-posted from Digital Science.
A huge amount of information was covered ranging from communication, mentoring and diversity to the importance of community in research. Expert speechwriter, Simon Lancaster, delivered an informative and entertaining keynote talk on ‘The Rhetoric of Research’.
What was clear was that researchers need to work on developing a wide range of skills throughout their career to effectively communicate their work and therefore progress and thrive in a digital world. A researcher’s work does not begin and end on the lab bench!
Below I summarise three key takeaways from Sp...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - January 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Elodie Chabrol Tags: Open Access Publishing SpotOn SpotOn17 Source Type: blogs
