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| Scientific progress quantified |
| Scientists measure. Scientists count. Scientists quantify. It's what they do. It's their job. Yet, as Einstein has pointed out long ago "...[more] |
| metrics impact factor science nature |
| Posted on Thursday 23 July 2009 - 11:26:19 |
| Is the scientific enterprise too big? |
| Today, I came across two very different but equally interesting and telling things to read. One was a letter from our funding agency (DFG) explaining why our main grant wasn't renewed and one was this ...[more] |
| metrics science evaluation data journal rank |
| Posted on Friday 31 August 2012 - 16:56:45 |
| Measuring science progress is hard! |
Nobody told me that yesterday was science metrics day, so of course I'm late with my take on how we ought to assess progress in science.  In the best of all worlds, it would be clear to anyone what constitutes scientific ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 30 November 2010 - 18:31:00 |
| Journal Impact Factors are silly and everybody knows it |
| I wasn't planning to write anything on Stephen Curry's latest piece on the negotiated, irreproducible and mathematically unsound Impact Factor sold by Thomson Reuters to gullible university administrators. I agree with m...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 14 August 2012 - 11:36:21 |
| DataCite workshop in Cologne |
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| datacite data level metrics semantic web linked open data citations metrics |
| Posted on Wednesday 12 December 2012 - 15:23:48 |