The paper presents the contributions of participants at the consultation on scientific and professional publications on e-journals at the beginning of the 1990s, which was organised at the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor in December 1991. The emphasis is also placed on IZUM's e-bulletin, which was entered into one of the first directories of e-journals and other e-bulletins worldwide from the same year. Communication is the essence of scientific progress, particularly e-journals. The advantages and disadvantages of e-journals are listed. Citation and other factors of research and business success of online and printed scientific and professional journals are presented. The importance of transparency for the quality and selection of a scientific and professional journal for publishing original and other scientific articles is evaluated. Falsification of critical rationalism is emphasised as an effective replacement for the classic observation and induction research method as a new criterion for the distinction (demarcation) between scientific theory and pseudoscience. E-journals have changed the fundamental processes in science, education, work, employment, information exchange and scientific information and communication, and, in synergy with the emergence of big data, brought about a new scientific paradigm for the understanding of findings and knowledge. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of reading scientific literature.
Wisdom is one of many human mental capabilities. Mental vitality is stereotypically associated with youth and mental decline with old age. However, also aging is a price of wisdom. The connection between neurological decline (senility, dementias) and wisdom development during aging is referred to as the paradox of wisdom.
The literature review is an integral part of research. The story of Pierre Trémaux (1818–1895) illustrates how factors, such as hoaxes, fabrications, untrue stories, myths and prejudice, which have nothing to do in science, difficulties in comprehending and accepting new scientific paradigms and also slow and geographically limited dissemination of scientific findings, which results in not being familiar with scientific findings and discoveries elsewhere in the world, are harmful for the ecology of scientific communication.
Dissemination proved to be a complex process that can take very diverse paths with questionable outcomes if not shaped correctly. And there are variety of views in research communities and the society of what the dissemination is. In such a situation it is natural to develop a more solid comprehension of the concept and, based on this, a model of the environment for the dissemination.
Databases are more than just registers providing bibliographic information because of the research history they contain. Database research involves five areas: management, usage, analysis, history/ sociology and methodology /epistemology. A distinction is made between a structural and sociological aspect of databases.
In 2005, Hirsch developed the today commonly known and widely used h-index, the shortest quantitative indicator of the cumulative influence and relevance of the academic work of an individual researcher, a research group or an institution (university, institute, journal, etc.).
