So there I was, desperately trying to get on top of my nuclear inbox (i.e. it had exceeded critical mass) when the head developer came up to me and says ‘Do we really need an evaluation of an 1866 paper, classed as a ‘New Finding’?’<\/p>\n
\nI knew immediately which paper he was talking about, because I’d blogged about it previously<\/a>. But this conversation was in the context of our hush<\/em> rankings<\/span>, and we decided that a paper in an obscure journal from a century and a half ago really wasn’t going to affect matters that much.<\/p>\n \nWhen I got home I checked the f1000 blog to see if there’d been any activity. And there, in the referrer list, was the search term “ber verh k\u00f6nigl-s\u00e4chs ges wiss, lov\u00e9n c”. The first hit for that phrase on google is the f1000 Biology<\/a> entry for the paper in question, by Wilfrid J\u00e4nig of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. The second hit is my blog entry.<\/p>\n \nThe paper by Christian Lov\u00e9n, written in German, is exciting since it formulated for the first time, based on experiments conducted on rabbits, that blood vessels involved in regulation of arterial blood pressure (that is peripheral resistance) and cutaneous arteries are differentially regulated and, therefore, also innervated by different types of efferent neurons. This important conclusion anticipated that the sympathetic nervous system is differentially organized according to the target organs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nNow, it’s possible that Phil searched for the journal, which means it’s not coincidence at all. And if I were Ben Goldacre I’d now swear a lot and say how this is an example of something or other that leads to bad reporting or death in baby rats, you bastards, but I’m sure you’re all smart enough to figure it out yourself.<\/p>\n \nI’ll instead close by saying that my flickr account<\/a> also gets some strange referrer search strings. My current favourite is Gee spot<\/a>, which finds two of my Flickr pictures, here on NN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So there I was, desperately trying to get on top of my nuclear inbox (i.e. it had exceeded critical mass) when the head developer came up to me and says ‘Do we really need an evaluation of an 1866 paper, … Continue reading