From the comments to yesterday's post:ISI/Web of Science (WoS) is " better than Google Scholar by an order of magnitude.""..my citations are definitely higher on Scopus than on WoS.""Web of Science has a few errors in my records, though not nearly as...
Seeking Perfection
Is your citation record in Web of Science (or the moral equivalent) perfectly correct? Or are there errors?If there are errors, are they insignificant (not worth correcting) or significant?If there are significant errors, have you done anything about...
Travelogue: Blogging While Brown - recap #2 - the People and Sessions
I met some amazing people at the Blogging While Brown Conference and I would be remiss if I did not tell you all about them or at least link to their blogs. But first, a highlight video of the Blogging While Brown.Ananda Leeke – just a sweet spirit...
Creativity and mental illness
The association between creativity and mental illness is sort of a cliché – but that doesn't mean there's nothing to it. Standard examples given include Vincent van Gogh, Robert Lowell, and John Nash.There has been a rather large amount of research into...
An Open Letter to...Nerd Girls
Do I Have What it Takes to be a Nerd Girl? Probably not.I am a Nerd and I a Girl. I love Science and believe in STEM outreach to under-served audiences by Many Means Necessary. I came across a blog post by USA Science & Engineering Festival...
I Am A Total Hypocrite
First of all, I'm taking a little break from blogging for a longish weekend -- Friday through Monday. Comment moderation will be sporadic today, and will then diminish to nothing, resuming early next week.Second, I am a total hypocrite. If someone introduced...
Self-Relegated?
A reader sent me this link and wonders if there is a (reasonable) explanation for the last item in this alphabetical list of categories for abstracts:AstrophysicsAtomic, molecular and optical physics (AMO)Condensed matter physicsNanophysics and nanomaterialsNuclear...
Off Message
Here is a comment from my teaching evaluations for a medium-sized, mid-level course for majors in Science:she is so kind and sweet :)Well, that's.. special. Except that I wasn't trying for a "kind and sweet" kind of impression. OK, maybe "kind" -- I...
Travelogue: Blogging While Brown - recap #1
The 3rd Annual Blogging While Brown Conference in Washington, DC, June 18-19, 2010 was a smashing success.My very first highlight was being confused with Breakthrough Blogger and Black Weblog Award Best Culture Blog Hall of Famer Afrobella. Seriously,...
Basic Training
When I was a grad student, I participated in the usual seminars and journal clubs at which a group of students +/- faculty read and discussed journal articles. Typically, the group would take each article apart in great detail: text, figures, tables,...
Blogging While Brown about Science
Blogging while brown about scienceView more presentations from Danielle L...
I'm here in DC and I'm Blogging While Brown
Hey there! I'm here in DC and the conference is off to a great start. Last was opening night and Saturday the talks start. In fact, I just went through my presentation again.This is just a quick post to let you know to expect more. Actually,...
Avalanche of Useless Science
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 they might be worthwhile, and noted that the correlation between number of citations and the "importance" of a...
FSP Check List
After writing about general academic issues in The Chronicle of Higher Education for the past year or so, I wrote a column specifically about being a Female Science Professor. Predictably, there are a mix of negative and positive comments, but most are...
Gray Matters
Whenever I write a post with "gray" in the title, some people think I am going to talk about hair, but no -- to me, "gray" signifies the mythical "gray zone" in which your grant proposal is neither awarded nor declined.. yet.I have been talking to various...
Summarily Rejected (reprise)
A reader writes with a query about some manuscripts that were rejected without review; in one case the summary rejection was sort of understandable, but in the other, not at all. Summary rejection was a topic of a post last summer, but it is a perennial...
iCollege U?
Knowing that I am interested in how higher education is perceived by those outside academia, and in particular the depiction of higher education in the media, a friend sent me a link to a video of an interview on The Daily Show. In this episode from...
Selected readings 6/13/10
Interesting reading and news items.Please leave some comments that indicate which articles you find most interesting or that identify topics you would like to read about, and I will try to include more articles of a similar nature in the futureThese...
Mean Women
Quite often, I get e-mail that goes something like this:"A female professor/supervisor was really mean and unfair to me. What's up with that? I thought women were supposed to be really nice and supportive because there are so few of them/us. How are...
Renewal
When submitting an NSF proposal on a research topic that is closely related to work done in a previous or soon-to-expire grant (i.e., essentially a continuation of a research project), the options are:- Submit a complete, new proposal. Of course you...
On Fecundity
A letter in the 3 June 2010 issue of Nature addresses "The role of mentorship in protégé performance". That sounds sort of interesting. I'd like to know ".. the extent to which protégés mimic their mentors' career choices and acquire their mentorship...
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