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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Citation analysis
Ever since the idea of using citations for research evaluation was introduced [Garfield,1955], citation analysis has received a lot of attention and many theories and measures based on citations have been produced.
Altmetrics: A Manifesto – Altmetrics.org
Altmetrics
Peer-review has served scholarship well, but is beginning to show its age. It is slow, encourages conventionality, and fails to hold reviewers accountable. Moreover, given that most papers are eventually published somewhere, peer-review fails to limit the volume of research…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Voltage values are a human invention
As I mentioned, when voltage is measured and digitized using signal processing technology, the probability that the real voltage on a computer chip has a particular value is negligible. This is a subtle but very important point. It is the fundamental fact about moving from the…
Accuracy versus precision
is important to keep in mind the difference between accuracy and precision. Accuracy refers to how close a measurement is to its true value; precision refers to the repeatability of the measurement. If you have a bias in your measuring equipment, you might be very precise…
Precise but inaccurate: the faulty glucose monitor
monitor that overestimates blood sugar the same way every time.
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
IQ is a dress size, not a birth date
Like Kirstie’s dress size, IQ is malleable. IQ has been shown to vary over one’s life span, and it is surprisingly vulnerable to environmental influences. It can change if one is stressed, old, or living in a different culture from the testing majority. A child’s IQ is…
Intelligence is a stew, not a number
Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who published his latest theory of multiple intelligences in 1993, put it this way: Strong evidence exists “that the mind is a multifaceted, multicomponent instrument, which cannot in any legitimate way be captured in a single…
The Torrance test predicts creative output
Can you predict creativity in kids? Psychologist Paul Torrance created a 90-minute exam called the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. The tests are composed of some truly delightful problems. Children might be presented with a picture of a stuffed rabbit, then told they have…
IQ tests miss most of intelligence
From exploration, self-control, and creativity to verbal and nonverbal ability, it is clear that the intelligence stew has many ingredients. Standard IQ tests are not capable of measuring most of these elements, even though they play a powerful role in the future success of…
Citation Indexes In Sociological And Historical Research
Quantitative measure of scientific impact
One can also program the computer to “erase” one or more nodes and its connections in the network. By making the assumption that any papers which derive from these nodes should also be erased, one can then determine whether an alternate “critical path” to a subsequent discovery…
Osx Dictionary
Stop short of (dictionary definition)
stop short of not go as far as (some extreme action): the measures stopped short of establishing direct trade links.
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
A standard unit for measuring morality
‘Very well. I think that you can see my point here—we avoid chaos, in building houses and dividing land and so forth, by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of length. We call it a metre and, after many attempts, we decide upon a way to establish the length of…