…0.004 ! There is, these days, no shortage of metrics for quantifying scientists’ impact. Aside from simple counts of citations (i.e. how many times one’s research papers are cited by other papers), there’s the now ubiquitous h-index [1] that combines the number of papers one has published and the citations per paper, as well as … Continue reading My Kardashian index is…
I just learned that my friend David Wacks, a professor in Romance Languages, has a blog — http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/ — on Medieval Iberian and Sephardic Culture. Who knew? Our conversations mostly involve graphic novels and keeping track of our kids on Saturday mornings at the public library, so we probably both are unaware of all sorts … Continue reading Another one!
Does the world need yet another blog? Perhaps not, but spurred by reading Steve Hsu’s post on the scarcity of faculty bloggers I’ve decided I’ll give it a shot, though I was mostly critical of the idea in my response to Steve copied below (also posted at http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-blog-professor-responds.html) My key motivation is the one I … Continue reading Yet another blog…
The Eighteenth Elephant 