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New Researcher database
Submitted by Thomas Hesselberg on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 13:20.We are probably a few who, during searches of papers from specific researchers in Web of Science or Google Scholar, have experienced the frustration of getting 100s of papers listed from different subjects and clearly different authors. This problem of course arises when we search for scientists with common last names. Often the only solution is to either browse through all the papers or alternatively go in search of the scientist’s own homepage to view his publication list there.
Best science papers in 2007
Submitted by Thomas Hesselberg on Fri, 21/12/2007 - 00:02.2007 is almost gone and like in many other areas, it is popular in science to look back at the things that stood out in the year.
There is a list of the most best papers in 2007 in the latest issue of the science magazine Nature. The magazine asked its editors to pick their favourite
papers from two categories. Their favourite papers from other scientific journals and their favourite Nature papers.
In the first category they highlight among others the following papers. View the full list here (Notice that you need access to read the full artcile).
How (not) to write scientific literature
Submitted by Thomas Hesselberg on Wed, 19/09/2007 - 15:07.Most people that have studied a science subject at university, has had the pleasure of reading scientific papers and despair over these papers rigid structure and uninspiring language. All of us probably agree that the majority of scientific papers are not pleasurable reading.
The biologist Kaj Sand-Jensen has written an entertaining and ironic little (scientific) paper on the matter, where he gives advice to scientists on how to write consistently boring scientific literature.
He gives the following 10 recommendations
(1) Avoid focus. Try to hide the aim of the research by asking a multitude of questions and introducing several ideas scattered around the text.
