How many scientific papers am I reading a week?

How many scientific papers are not original?

Is plagiarism afflicting science? In PNAS, Citron and Ginsparg (1) count the number of authors who are submitting articles containing text already appearing elsewhere. They report disturbing numbers of authors resorting to copying, particularly in some countries where 15% of submissions are detected as containing duplicated material. I am on the editorial board of an Institute of Electrical and...

How many scientific papers should be retracted?

In European research today, mobility has become firmly entrenched as a pre requisite for a successful scientific career; however, the reasons behind this emphasis on scientific nomadism are far from obvious. It is all too common for science policy-makers and funding bodies to extol the seemingly endless virtues of mobility, but it nearly amounts to heresy to ponder the possibility that a move a...

How to Write and Publish Scientific Papers

How many grammars am I holding up? Discovering phonological differences between word classes

It is a well established fact that languages may exhibit phonological differences between different classes of words. For example, nouns and verbs may show systematic differences with respect to stress placement (English: Chomsky and Halle 1968, chap. 3; Lenakel: Hammond 1984), accentual or tonal patterns (Fukuoka Japanese: Smith 1999, 2001; Hausa: Newman 2000), prosodic root shapes (Classical ...

Are you reading what I am reading? The impact of contrasting alphabetic scripts on reading English

This study examines the impact of the crosslinguistic similarity of translation equivalents on word recognition by Russian-English bilinguals, who are fluent in languages with two different but partially overlapping writing systems. Current models for bilingual word recognition, like BIA+, hold that all words that are similar to the input letter string are activated and considered for selection...