Sir, the recent publication on “Publication Ethics” is very interesting (1). The article by Fazly Bazzaz and Sadeghi demonstrated many interesting cases                   of misconducts. Indeed, the misconducts can be seen  in many ways. As mentioned in the present publication, both author and editor can perform publication misconducts. Nevertheless, the problem has many more facets. Sometimes,...

the lack of active academic publishers in the domain of social science translation has made the private publishers override the public publishers in the quality of published translations. the atmosphere of translation criticism in the country is not in place and most of the time,publishersemploy the unskilled translators to translate the books with regard to the fame of an author or a subject a...

Communication among scientists has undergone a revolution in the last decade, with the movement of scientific publication to a digital medium and the emergence of the Internet as the primary means for distributing information. Millions of articles are, in principle, just a mouse click away from our computers. For many of us, PDFs have replaced printed journals as the primary form in which we re...

I must plead my extremely limited experience of publishing and point out that it has been restricted to the history of medicinea most unrepresentative, and certainly the least profitable, branch of medical publishing. Why should an author want to publish his own work in the first place ? In my case speed of publication was the only reason. As I had only eight weeks in which to bring out a book ...

We use the new economic geography perspective to explore the impacts of the Internet on the market linkages of two manufacturing and two service IT industries, and the consequential effects on their agglomeration. We study IT industry agglomeration at the county level across the entire United States during 1998-2004. The industries that we study are: computer manufacturing, semiconductors manuf...

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This article presents a comparative study between the ECSS standards, more specifically in terms of the requirements of the ECSS software management process and the defenseintensive processes of PMBOK DoD. Since there is a sense that a complete comparison study is a lengthy process, the scope of comparison is restricted to space software acquisition. Most of the software systems are developed u...