Month: June 2011
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If PLoS ONE Paleontology was a journal…
Doing some information research ahead of my imminent OKCon 2011, Berlin talk, it’s come to my attention that the Open Access journal PLoS ONE is actually an excellent journal to publish in, with respect to Impact Factor. In the Digital Age, journals are merely vessels in which we can publish our research. Aside from the…
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A FlyTree in the Ointment of Falsifiability
Part inspired by the ‘Bugs!’ blogging contest, part inspired by Morgan Jackson’s post I thought I’d write some thoughts and observations on the recent FlyToL paper (Wiegmann et al., PNAS, 2011). [IMPORTANT UPDATE Since I wrote this blogpost, the authors have made the data publicly available. In fact, credit to them – they’ve done more…
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It’s a small world in Palaeontology
What’s your Norell number? Taking inspiration from the Erdős number game, I thought I’d use ColWiz‘s ‘Link Explorer’ function, and my citeulike bibliographic data to explore (in a highly unscientific way!) the authorship connections between people in my reference database of ~2750 papers. Mark A Norell has LOADS of publications. Not too surprising considering he…