Alive Publications Are Gaining Popularity

Abstract

Alive publications are exemplars of a new genre for presenting the results of scientific research; in this type, scientific work is published online and then is constantly developed and improved by its author. Serious errors and typos are no longer fatal, nor do they haunt the author for the rest of his or her life. The reader of an alive publication knows that the author is constantly monitoring changes in this branch of science. A Russian author who supports an alive publication is currently hopelessly losing in many bibliometric indicators favored by conservative science officials. An alive publication encourages the development of the bibliographical apparatus. Each citation will soon have to be continually updated to the date of the last revision of the alive publication. It is to be expected that alive publications will spread over to the scientific world, and the author’s concern for the publication’s evolution will become like a parent’s care for the development of a child, and, to the delight of the reader, the internet will be filled with scientific publications that do not lose their relevance over time.