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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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 6 weblog

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

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0




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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

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

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

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Biology / Other

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

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

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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