FemaleScienceProfessor

This is a poll I have done before (4 years ago), and I am interested to see if the results will be different now. I am curious about how of...

There are many ways to measure happiness in one's life and career. For example, I recall learning, as an undergraduate, that one's ...

Someone recently told me about this, and I was wondering if anyone has participated in something similar: A group of colleagues makes a s...

Today in Scientopia : On creeps and their effect on the work of others

Sorry to spring this on you, but I wanted to make sure that you have all been keeping up with the material. This little quiz will help me s...

Yesterday I wrote about a citation-related topic, and you know how hard it is for me to stop talking about citations once I get started [FSP...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss a question about how/whether to mention in a manuscript review that the authors should cite one (or more) of...

At some point, in one of my old blog-posts, I asked how often authors check their citation data: every week? every month? every once in a wh...

Some comments to yesterday's post reminded me of something I have been wondering: If you are the (or a) major author on a paper submitt...

As I was reviewing a manuscript recently, I saw this sentence: .." and existing models to explain this phenomenon are inadequate [3]. ...

From the comments to yesterday's post: ISI/Web of Science (WoS) is " better than Google Scholar by an order of magnitude ." ...

Is your citation record in Web of Science (or the moral equivalent) perfectly correct? Or are there errors? If there are errors, are they in...

In a post last winter , I discussed whether papers that receive few or no citations are worthwhile anyway. I came up with a few reasons why ...

A letter in the 3 June 2010 issue of Nature addresses "The role of mentorship in protégé performance". That sounds sort of inte...

Citation index considerations aside, have you made any publication decisions specifically because you wanted to increase your number of publ...

This spring, I have to refresh my ethics training, a ritual that is annoying mostly because the university makes it so extremely difficult f...

If you have published at least one paper in a journal that is included in a citation index, how often do you check your own citation statist...

A comment on yesterday's post got me thinking about something: If a non-recent journal article gets a low number of citations (say, 0-2)...

There's an interesting article in Slate about the possible differences in outcome of scientific research based on the mode of funding: ...

A paper published in 2009 by some people I know contains the statement that it is problematic that a certain dataset does not exist because ...