The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Mitchel Keller, London School of Economics researcher and MGP project director, explains the significance of The Mathematics Genealogy Project in this video.
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Mitchel Keller, London School of Economics researcher and MGP project director, explains the significance of The Mathematics Genealogy Project in this video.
The F1000 Librarian Newsletter announced that the Faculty of 1000 will be launching their own journal ranking system. The announcement stated, "In the next couple of months, Faculty of 1000 will be launching F1000 Journal Rankings. These will be calculated using the F1000 Article Factor (FFa) and based on the opinion of our 10,000 strong faculty. This will deliver a new kind of metric, one based on the opinions of the most prestigious scientists in their field and one that is generated at the article level. With this new metric, F1000 aims to deliver a more accurate and up to date overview of STM journals. It will also be updated monthly and back dated to 2007." The rankings will be subscription-based; more information is here.
University of Pennsylvania's PhillieBot robot throws out first pitch at a Phillies baseball game. Unfortunately, the pitch didn't quite reach home plate. PhillieBot must have been watching President Obama's pitching style. Take a look...
From the Mathematical Association of American (MAA), Classroom Capsules and Notes is a digital collection that contains classroom-oriented materials at the undergraduate level. It is based on articles that appeared in The College Mathematics Journal and other MAA publications. Its purpose is to provide students with new mathematical insights. Articles can be found by browsing subject categories or by basic or advanced searching. The collection is freely available.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications has launched a new video series to help students and young researchers with the research and publication process: Publishing Your Research 101: Practical Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers. Its purpose is to improve effective communication of scientific research, and will cover the processes of writing, submitting, editing, and reviewing manuscripts. Prominent authors and editors of ACS journals were interviewed and will provide insights from their experiences.
Nature Publishing Group just announced that its flagship journal Nature has the highest journal Impact Factor (36.101) and has most citations (over 500,000), based on data from the recently published 2010 JCR. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is published annually by Thomson Reuters and uses data from the 2 previous years. We no longer subscribe to the JCR, so I decided to look at SCImago Journal & Country Rank and see their journal rankings for 2010. SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a product of SCImago, a research group from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares. SCImago Journal & Country Rank is based on data from the Scopus database, for the 3 previous years. It is freely available. SCImago uses 2 measures to rank journal impact: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and H-Index.
The top 5 journals ranked by SJR are: 1. Annual Review of Immunology, 2. Nature Genetics, 3. Cell, 4. Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and 5. Immunity. Nature is ranked 8th.
The top 5 journals ranked by H-Index are: 1. Nature, 2. Science, 3. New England Journal of Medicine, 4. Cell, and 5. PNAS.
The journals can be sorted and ranked by other fields. For example, the top 5 journals ranked by total citations are: 1. PNAS, 2. Nature, 3. Science, 4. Journal of the American Chemical Society, and 5. Journal of Biological Chemistry.