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How to Spot an Influential Paper Based on its Citations
(PhysOrg.com) -- At first it may seem that the number of citations received by a published scientific paper is directly related to that paper's quality of content. The higher the quality, the more people read ...
Jul 04, 2009 |
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Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Putting lab life under the lens
Scott Stern doesn’t work in a laboratory or have a degree in the hard sciences. You’ll never find him using a genome sequencer or an MRI scanner. Yet he knows more about some aspects of science than ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 09, 2012 |
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NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow
Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Workplace safety program can reduce injuries if aggressively enforced, study finds
A longstanding California occupational safety program requiring all businesses to eliminate workplace hazards can help prevent injuries to workers, but only if it is adequately enforced, according to a new study by the RAND ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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How research goes viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers to follow up on them: The chance to use the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2012 |
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The perils of 'bite-size' science
Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st-century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics, and culture—for the worse, many say. Now an article in January's Perspectives on Psychological Science, a jour ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Trimming time in the stacks
A sophisticated text-analyzing tool developed by a UC Berkeley graduate student could speed literary searches for humanities scholars and other researchers.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 21, 2011 |
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New biodiversity data publishing framework proposed
A comprehensive framework to encourage and facilitate the sharing of biodiversity data has been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Study: Crop diversity myths persist in media
The conventional wisdom that says the 20th century was a disaster for crop diversity is nothing more than a myth, according to a forthcoming study by a University of Illinois expert in intellectual property law.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Can plagiarism be weeded out?
To cheat or not to cheat? It's a question scholars have grappled with for generations. For the majority of students, cheating is out of the question because success can only be achieved through honest and hard work, i.e. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Most hospital readmission prediction models perform poorly
A review and analysis of 26 validated hospital readmission risk prediction models finds that most, whether for hospital comparison or clinical purposes, have poor predictive ability, according to an article in the October ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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