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Anticipating The 2010 Impact Factor — The Devil Is In The Details | The Scholarly Kitchen
Impact factor put simple
The journal impact factor is deceptively simple. A journal’s 2010 impact factor is derived by summing the citations made in 2010 to articles published during the previous two years (i.e,. 2008 and 2009) and dividing this number by the sum of the articles published during those…
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Don't build hierarchy into persistent URLs
Building hierarchy into URLs always feels like a neat thing to do. It makes them readable and hackable and human guessable. At least for the subset of people who look at and manipulate URLs. But building in hierarchy is painful when the hierarchies change over time. And the…
One-thing-per-page vs one-page-per-thing
In December of that year the first streaming version of iPlayer was released. For a whole variety of reasons the “iPlayer inside” (/programmes) model never came about and instead iPlayer became a destination in its own right. But both iPlayer and /programmes were based on PIPs…
Epigrams On Programming
Artificial intelligence
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
In the dream we have the source of all metaphysics
Dreams.—In the dream, mankind, in epochs of crude primitive civilization, thought they were introduced to a second, substantial world: here we have the source of all metaphysic. Without the dream, men would never have been incited to an analysis of the world. Even the…
The free spirit
that overplus which confers upon the free spirit the perilous prerogative of spending a life in experiment and of running adventurous risks: the past-master-privilege of the free spirit. In the interval there may be long years of convalescence, years filled with many hued…
Journal Citation Reports Help
Title changes and impact factor
After a title change, two JCR years must pass before the new title fully replaces the previous title in JCR. In the first year after a journal title change, the new title is listed with an Immediacy Index but no impact factor because the article count for the two preceding…
Networks Of Scientific Papers
Science topography based on analysis of research fronts
The present research suggests that most papers, through citations, are knit together rather tightly. The total research front of science, however, has never been a single row of knitting. It is, instead, divided by dropped stiches into quite small segments and strips. From a…
Research Fronts 2014 : 100 Top Ranked Specialties In The Sciences And Social
Co-citation strength and research fronts
The method of measuring co-citation similarity and the threshold of co-citation strength employed in creating research fronts has changed over the years. Today, we use cosine similarity, calculated as the co-citation frequency count divided by the square root of the product of…
Scientists May Be Reaching A Peak In Reading Habits : Nature News & Comment
Digital reading habits
Further details from the study reveal that scholars now read more than half their articles on an electronic screen, whereas in 2005, just one-fifth of readings took place on screen. However, researchers over 60 years old reported that 58% of their readings were still on paper…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
The standing babas
THE STANDING BABAS were men who’d taken a vow never to sit down, or lie down, ever again, for the rest of their lives. They stood, day and night, forever. They ate their meals standing up, and made their toilet standing up. They prayed and worked and sang standing up. They even…
Indians know how to shout with their eyes
Long years after that day, the Afghan guerrillas I came to know as friends, on a mountain near the siege of Kandahar, talked for hours about Indian films and their favourite Bollywood movie stars. Indian actors are the greatest in the world, one of them said once, because…
Stonehenge Unveils Its £27m Makeover In Time For The Winter Solstice | Culture | The Observer
Winter solstice access at Stonehenge
"The winter solstice, which I prefer to the summer event, has always been less well attended – but that may not be the case this year, because of the visitor centre and with it falling at the weekend. It is the more significant ceremony because it coincides with our Christmas…
Temperatures In England To Hit Highest Of The Year | Uk-news | The Guardian
Sizzle
Parts of England will sizzle on Thursday with temperatures expected to reach the highest so far this year, beating Portugal, Turkey and Spain.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Surveillance and the end of privacy
Consider the astonishing means now being made for snooping, the devices already used in offices, factories, stores, and on various lines of communication such as the mail and the telephone. Through the transistor and miniaturization techniques, these devices become ever more…
The Hipster Effect: When Anticonformists All Look The Same
Hipters avoid labels and being labeled
Hipsters avoid labels and being labeled. However, they all dress the same and act the same and conform in their non-conformity. Doesn’t the fact that there is a hip- ster look go against all hipster beliefs? This perspica- cious observation of the blogger Julia Plevin [1] in…
Too Much To Bare: Behind The Scenes At A Lap-dancing Club | Life And Style | The Guardian
Hollow
He brings over Laura, who's 26 and has been working here for about five years. She's smiley and friendly, in a proficient but hollow customer services way, and keeps pulling at her skirt, which is hovering at the top of her spray-tanned thighs, as if she's uncomfortable talking…
What Happens Next If Britain Votes To Leave The Eu? | Politics | The Guardian
Brexit
It took 12 years to get into Europe and, the UK may discover, it will take just as long to get through the exit door.
What’s In A (journal) Name? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Title changes for publications
My favorite example of a title change that was just a problem for everyone: some time ago, ACTA ORTHOPEDICA SCANDINAVICA (20 character abbrev: ACTA ORTHOP SCAND) changed title to ACTA ORTHOPEDICA (20 character abbrev: ACTA ORTHOP), then a few years later, changed back to ACTA…
What’s In A Name? Journal Rebranding And Its Consequences On Citations - Research Trends
Erroneous references due to title changes
This is corroborated by Research Trends’ own case study of citations and references for 10 journals that changed title in 2000. Anecdotal evidence gleaned through reference lists suggests that journal title changes can indeed lead to erroneous references from authors and a…