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Here's a graph of the same, but normalized by # of published papers. http://i.imgur.com/NVkEF.png See this thread:http://friendfeed.com/neilfws... - Chris Miller

The conference organising committee comprises Victor Henning (Mendeley), Matt Brown and Lou Woodley (Nature Publishing Group), Sarah Kemmitt (British Library), Richard P. Grant (Faculty of 1000) and Martin Fenner (Hannover Medical School). - Martin Fenner

@Martin, really looking forward to this year's event. This is maybe a bit off-topic for a session idea, but perhaps something on change management from an expert in the field would help with selling the idea of online science to others who just don't get it yet? (http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokit...) I'm just thinking back to the session on legal aspects of blogging last year which I think was in a similar vein. - Dan Hagon

... reporter for a science mag wants some examples (aside from the Gene Wiki, of course). Already pointed him to Jean-Claude's ONS efforts. Others? - Andrew Su

Hello everyone (esp. Andrew) — do you know where and when the article on crowdsourced science was finally published? Can't get my hands on it… Thank you! - Enro

"The Corrupted Blood incident was a widely reported virtual plague outbreak and video game glitch found in the ... game World of Warcraft... The plague began on September 13, 2005, when an area was introduced in a new update. One boss could cast a spell called Corrupted Blood, which would deal a certain amount of damage over a period of time, and which could be transferred from character to character. It was intended to be exclusive to this area, but players discovered ways to take it out, causing an epidemic across several servers. During the epidemic, some players would help combat the disease by volunteering healing services, while select others would maliciously spread the disease. These people have been compared to real-world disease spreaders, including early AIDS patient Gaëtan Dugas and Typhoid patient Mary Mallon... [World of Warcraft creator] Blizzard [was forced] to do a hard reset of all of its servers for the game." - Michael Nielsen

"a tool that can augment Google Scholar and monitor Google Scholar (and other services like Libra, CiteSeerX, SSRN), and also monitor the Web (Google, Bing, Ask) for mentions of the paper. You can access a pre-alpha version at http://www.citation-tracker.com" - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

at a first glimpse it doesn't really work for me being an organometallic chemist. it's easier to check scifinder (chemical abstracts) to see if someone cited me or use the journal's citation alert. i assume since scifinder is a commercial product it's not possible to implement it? - Oliver Schuster

"Using an original method for controlling the intrinsic value of papers--identical duplicate papers published in different journals with different impact factors--this paper shows that the journal in which papers are published have a strong influence on their citation rates, as duplicate papers published in high impact journals obtain, on average, twice as much citations as their identical counterparts published in journals with lower impact factors. The intrinsic value of a paper is thus not the only reason a given paper gets cited or not; there is a specific Matthew effect attached to journals and this gives to paper published there an added value over and above their intrinsic quality. " - Michael Nielsen

Show me the duplicate papers data for social sciences. I want to understand how first -- I have seen perhaps one or two qua-duplicates in many years of reading, never two perfect duplicates, at the exception of reprints (articles becoming book chapters in edited collections, for example -- in which case citing the article is no Matthew effect at all). - Fr.

In this post, White predicts the demise of complexity/network science unless it gets more careful methodology-wise. I think he is being optimistic. Countless (sub)fields have survived despite dismal methodology. As an anonymous commenter writes: "Too many people are easily seduced by models, and too many people don't have a proper appreciation for rigorous testing, for that brand of "science" to ever go away." - Seb Paquet

Yes, I guess they will reach a point in their career where they have the luxury to let their productivity (in terms of # of papers per year) take a hit and shoot for quality instead of quantity. But I wonder if most of them will do it. - Seb Paquet

Still don't understand why their costs are higher at all - for instance, they tend to have less figures (particular ones in colour) than STM journals. - Daniel Mietchen

probably volume is one thing - they probably print and sell many fewer copies. there's hardly any advertising, and what advertising they can sell is not like what a science journal can sell. (think about the advertisements for the newest and coolest $100k piece of lab equipment or even lab consumables vs. whatever you might advertise to historians!) As the article mentions, the acceptance rate is <20% where in specialty science journals (particularly some places in physics) >60%. Articles are longer... - Christina Pikas

It's a sweeping generalization I know but it's still largely true across all the humanities disciplines that the monograph is more important as a form than the journal article. Also there is no great impetus for speed of publication; most humanities journals (again a sweeping generalization) can publish with a quarterly frequency and no one minds much, which translates to less of a... more... - Jill O'Neill

"The aim of this 3-year research project is to explore these processes through a detailed reconstruction of the ways in which the naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) assembled, filed, and cross-referenced information about plants and their medicinal virtues." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

The clearest, most nicely written post on the entire issue. Well done! - Bora Zivkovic

I think recent interview with Pete Binfield is a good addition to this thread at this point: http://network.nature.com/people... - Bora Zivkovic

burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk - Pierre Lindenbaum

alternative : manger 1 deuxième brownie pour ecraser le gout, passer à autre chose (du boulot), ecouter de la bonne musique. Mais si je donne pas de nouvelle d'ici ce soir, s'affoler ! dire que je viens de voir Into the Wild il y a 2 jours et que le gars meurt empoisonné... - elifsulavraie from email

Ah, of course!!!! ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

LOL, HIlary - that is funny. 'Defenestration' is one of my favourite words of all times. - Bora Zivkovic

A minima, a blog post describing the project, its history, its current status and its output would be worth the effort! - Enro

Christina - I think there's many fascinating questions to be answered; my posts don't nearly do the project justice. I'd like to know the answer to questions like: How did the pattern of participation change over time (e.g., who was replying to who, how long the comments were (it changed, I'm nearly certain), what caused lulls in the conversation, what caused the conversation to move... more... - Michael Nielsen

Un succès qui fait peur tout de même... Bel étalage d'obscurantisme parmi les commentateurs... - haruspice

I put up our Spectral Game paper just to see what happens - Jean-Claude Bradley

Efficient-market hypothesis meets peer-review. What a nice patchwork, I'd add some black-market features;) - marcin

This Vocabulary contains extensions to FOAF and other vocabularies, providing terms which are useful for describing academic researchers. - Pierre Lindenbaum

did you try the google bundle already? - Avi A

Avi, are you implying it's already possible? Tell us how (don't bogart that thought, my friend, pass it over to me). - ianf ⌘

How does Google Bundle allow me to filter within a feed? Correct me if I'm wrong but this feature just allows me to group feeds together and then share with others. No filtering... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

A Serbian molecular biologist has beaten off competition from around the world to win International FameLab, a kind of Pop Idol of science. The competition is the brainchild of the Cheltenham Science Festival, in partnership with NESTA and supported by the British Council. - NESTA