Great article, highlighting the tension between furthering good science and doing what is necessary to "prove" you are furthering good science.
- David Wild
"Universities get the publication process they deserve. They have the financial power to change it to suit the twenty-first century – they haven’t done so. They must." Yup!
- Björn Brembs
I can't believe the Thomson guy has the gall to say this: ""While we respect publishers' interest in understanding these determinations, the content of the denominator is never negotiated or altered to suit their requests." in the light of this: http://bjoern.brembs.net/e107_im... The nerve! He even goes on to say "Millions of subscribers to the Web of...
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- Björn Brembs
Damnit - should have been running a book on how long before Björn complained about that box :-) Actually found the article a bit disjointed - seemed to be trying to cover too many things. But good to see them covered at least...
- Cameron Neylon
lol :-) I'm still flabbergasted as to how the guy basically said: "go and look" when the whole database must be set up for manipulation (how else could you explain two numbers for the same year?). I wonder if someone could write a short script which searched the database for more such 'inconsistencies'. maybe that's not the only case?
- Björn Brembs
Its an interesting thought actually - how did you find that example, just come across it or were you looking for something?
- Cameron Neylon
Somewhere I had read that CBs IF had gone up 40% after the acquisition by Cell Press. I became curious and looked the numbers up. It's been 'known' for quite a number of years, I guess.
- Björn Brembs
@PMR, yes I will be at #solo09 and am also free most of the day after
- Graham Steel