My ‘Sick of Impact Factors‘ blog post seems to have struck much more of a chord than I anticipated. At the time of writing it has attracted over 12,900 page views and 460 tweets, far higher than my usual tallies.
The post also generated over 130 comments, which is a daunting number for anyone who now stumbles across the post; but since Continue reading
As I’ve probably noted too many times in these pages, I am an addicted bookworm, and always have been. The pages of my books have always been escape (albeit often to realities more difficult than my own), and in modern days I find myself super-stimulated. Audiobooks in the car, downloaded library audiobooks in the gym and on the treadmill, and usua Continue reading
Today I find myself in the illustrious company of the well-known bloggers over at the Guardian Science Blogs. As Richard Grant and Stephen Curry already spelled out a week ago, we happy band of OT bloggers have a new outpost over at
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Over the years I’ve enthused in public about science, to various audiences. I have given seminars to graduate students and faculty about being an editor at Your Favourite Etc., and if you don’t believe me here’s the evidence. Notwithstanding inasmuch as which I have talked about science to a roomful of 10-year-olds, and whole asse Continue reading
(this would have appeared on my blog on Nature Network, but the pulled the plug the day before. Sometimes correlation does not mean causation)
Fans of R and mixed models are aware of the lme4 package. This started out as Doug Bates re-writing the lme package using the new capabilities in R (S4 objects, for those who care about such things). It goes Continue reading
A significant part of the scientific process is documenting what you observe. This activity is not merely a formality for the record. In some cases, it’s not until we study and analyze our results that the experimental situation can start to clarify.
In being charged with setting up a new cell biology lab, one of the first obstacles I hit was Continue reading
I just received a package from home:
Yeah. Some of these are going up next to my desk at work.
Continue readingI am sick of impact factors and so is science.
The impact factor might have started out as a good idea, but its time has come and gone. Conceived by Eugene Garfield in the 1970s as a useful tool for research libraries to judge the relative merits of journals when allocating their subscription budgets, the impact factor is calculated annually as the Continue reading
