{"doi":"10.1373/clinchem.2012.194738","title":"Communication of Scientific Information: Is It Time to Reassess?","abstract":"The format of communicating scientific, technical, and medical (STM)11 information through professional journals has changed relatively little since the publication in 1665 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , the world's first journal devoted exclusively to science. Although advances in information technology have dramatically altered the search and discovery of scientific information, other aspects—such as migrating from paper to electronic publishing, moving from a “static” to a “living” document, or exploiting social media tools to disseminate STM information—have been slow in coming. The transformations seen in the popular press to better present and relay complex information have undoubtedly raised readers' expectations of the scientific-publishing community about how to find and use information. In this Q&A article, 5 experts—a librarian, a publisher, a technology expert, and 2 editors representing traditional and new-concept journals—discuss their views on the communication of scientific information.\n\nWhy do you think scientific journals, in general, have not taken advantage of technology to the same extent as the lay press? \n\nMichael A. Keller: Actually, scientific journals were early innovators in e-publishing, developing and using features and functions useful in some cases beyond the academic sphere. While I suppose that the assertion of lagging adoption or de novo development of new features by scientific journals with particular regard to social networking functions could be supported in some measure, one rejoinder might be to question whether such functions were pertinent to STM literature. It might also be the case that having been early innovators in the first decade or so of e-publishing, scientific journals have been on a sort of plateau of development recently, which state is about to change as STM journal publishers are starting to explore new possibilities in data archiving and sharing, imaging technologies permitting much higher resolution of views, and advanced modes of …","journal":"Clinical Chemistry","year":2013,"id":7231,"datarank":0.10397207708399181,"base_score":0.6931471805599453,"endowment":0.6931471805599453,"self_citation_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.10397207708399181,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.0417,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2013-04-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":65049,"name":"John Sack","orcid":"0000-0001-7113-5250","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":19504,"name":"Michael A. Keller","orcid":"0000-0003-0721-9753","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":65050,"name":"Anurag Acharya","orcid":"0000-0002-3883-5287","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":125,"name":"Philip  E. Bourne","orcid":"0000-0002-7618-7292","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":65051,"name":"Mike Rossner","orcid":"0000-0002-8821-1747","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":65052,"name":"Stewart Wills","orcid":"0000-0002-2908-1399","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":34525,"name":"Nader Rifai","orcid":"0000-0003-0706-2477","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-03-01T18:20:47.508186Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}