ScienceOnline09 - formerly known as Science Blogging Conference - will meet again in NC in January. 200+ people (and many more virtually) will discuss how the Web changes the way science is communicated, published, taught and done. This FF room will be a meeting place during the preparation, during the conference, and the discussions afterwards: http://www.scienceonline09.com/index...
Yes, @tigressse: @jayhawkbabe and @thesciencebabe are leading a session (on Twitter and Science). I sent some suggestions. Will virtually follow tomorrow at #140conf (via http://friendfeed.com/coturni...)
What is the overlap bt shanty singers and ocean scientists? At #scio09 it was 100% - but no shanties at my illustrious institution. - http://twitter.com/oysters...
I've heard for example,that China is #2 for research. What does this mean? Does it mean that China is second in terms of how many peer reviewed journal articles they publish, or what?
- Sol Lederman
There was a paper in Nature some years back that had a lot of information on this but I've struggled to find it I'm afraid. I think it depends a lot on whether you do it per capita and whether you include non-English language papers
- Cameron Neylon
Cameron, thanks for the reply and insight. I'd like to find something recent as I bet China's numbers would be very different now than some years ago.
- Sol Lederman
The recent Research Information Network report on scholarly publishing must have some of this information buried in the model that was developed somewhere. Not sure where (or if) the background research is available bu the report is detailed at http://www.rin.ac.uk/what-cost
- Cameron Neylon
Did you look at the statistics available from NSF? This like something that would be in their stuff. I second Enro on L.L.'s work
- Christina Pikas
@Enro - Excellent paper. Thank you. @Christina - Excellent suggestion to look at NSF stats. Thank you too. And, @Cameron - Thanks for the reference to the RIN report.
- Sol Lederman
There was a paper by David King in Nature on the scientific impact of nations: http://www.nature.com/nature... which itself took off from Bob May's 1997 Science piece on the scientific wealth of nations - either of these is probably what Cameron is thinking of. "Scientific wealth of nations Chronic global inequalities in scientific productivity are...
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- Maxine
There are also annual stats put out by the Times (the THES I think) which are well-regarded in terms of international scientific output/ranking, I think they are more limited, eg to Universities, would need checking out.
- Maxine
I guess you can quickly extract this information from pubmed. There is a field called "[PL]". (country of publication.) Here are the results I got: (France[PL] 2008[dp] := 13288 ), (France[PL] 2008[dp] := 13288 ) (Italy[PL] 2008[dp] := 7194) (Germany[PL] 2008[dp] := 44106) , (England[PL] 2008[dp] := 170476), (United-states[PL] and 2008[dp] := 350337 )
- Pierre
"This is not a job for the faint of heart – you are constantly balancing on the edge of a potential PR disaster. You are supposed to act like a human, but getting into online fights is one of the very human traits – one to be avoided as much as possible. So, pick your fights carefully. And rarely. And when you do, keep your composure (and, for yourself only, keep your own sense of humor...
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- Mickey Schafer
Another aspect of online communities that I think Bora points out well is that credibility has to be established here, over time and through interaction. This means that a brand new, unpublished person has the same chance to build a reputation as a well-funded, experienced scientist. I imagine for the latter this fact is discomfiting: having to start all over despite a credentialed...
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- Mickey Schafer
also found it kind of fun that when I put the phrase "science publication" through the google wonder wheel, the two main subjects that were associated were "computational biology" and "peer reviewed" -- attached to comp bio was lots of PLoS stuff!
- Mickey Schafer