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> “Lack of citation cannot be interpreted as meaning articles are useless or valueless,” says David Pendlebury, a senior citations analyst at Clarivate. On the other hand, presence of citation can not be interpreted as meaning articles are useful or valuable. For one, there could be chains of useless and valueless papers citing each other.
Striking similarity to PageRank and Link Farms.
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The squirrel cares.
The squirrel is pretty unlikely to care about the relative warmth of its tail vs other tails. I tried to ask my mother once what women typically considered to be the dimensions of female attractiveness (e.g. breast size is something people commonly care about, while toe length isn't). Instead I got an answer consisting of a list of things a woman trying to be attractive would do before appearing in a public place. I…
remember, you're not looking at faces through an accurate depth camera, you're inferring facial geometry through color vision.
mascara draws attention to the eyes, away from the chin. eye shadow provides the illusion of depth, which, combined with subtle application of blush or contouring foundation, totally changes the shape you see.
you're really only inferring an oval from a small handful of points. you can control those points by accenting and concealing.
not to mention hairstyles! bangs! glasses! rhinoplasty!
but it's a time and money sink, and we're increasingly okay with our faces as they are.
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While I sympathize with your sentiment - indeed much research is done that is incremental, not groundbreaking - your comment does not accurately describe academic research. Full-time scientist positions, whether in academia or elsewhere, are competitive in the extreme. Even with tenure protections, if your hypothetical researcher does not generate impactful research, he or she could expect to be out of a job in relat…
For some who may be less familiar, PI = Principal Investigator. This is how a receiver of a grant is referred to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
10% of papers being completely uncited is a little misleading. There is a long tail of papers with 1 or 2 citations that were hardly read beyond the abstract and only cited to up a paper's number of references and had a few good keywords. That research is effectively uncited. The reason for this isn't really surprising: Most research isn't that groundbreaking. Most research is done because if you don't produce a pape…
What if there was a significant difference in insulating properties of squirrel tails? That could lead to new ways of making insulating fabrics.
Quite a few of my research papers look like "we investigated reasonable question X. The answer turned out to be boring".
Does that mean I shouldn't have done the work? We didn't know the answer would be boring in advance. Should I not publish? Then someone else might repeat the work.
I think, if anything, science needs to publish more boring negative results, to stop people repeating the same boring experiments and not publishing.
10% of papers being completely uncited is a little misleading. There is a long tail of papers with 1 or 2 citations that were hardly read beyond the abstract and only cited to up a paper's number of references and had a few good keywords. That research is effectively uncited. The reason for this isn't really surprising: Most research isn't that groundbreaking. Most research is done because if you don't produce a pape…
To be honest, now that you mentioned this, I'm really curious how warm a squirrel's tail is.
0. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/36/14177
1. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/crossref-forward-links/104/36/14177
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If he actually has a journal and does that, he's nothing more than a con artist.
Hehe yes, that's the general conclusion. I'm not sure if I should name names. (Ah well) The guy I'm talking about is Azlan Iqbal, a Malaysian CS professor. I know him as the writer of numerous wacky articles on ChessBase (leading chess news site) about his chess+computer studies. People criticize his shoddy work in the comments, and he says, nay, jeers they're not qualified to judge because they didn't read his uni t…
Boris Stilman [0], but Stilman is not worse than Iqbal.
[0] http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...
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The squirrel is pretty unlikely to care about the relative warmth of its tail vs other tails. I tried to ask my mother once what women typically considered to be the dimensions of female attractiveness (e.g. breast size is something people commonly care about, while toe length isn't). Instead I got an answer consisting of a list of things a woman trying to be attractive would do before appearing in a public place. I…
besides makeup, you mean? remember, you're not looking at faces through an accurate depth camera, you're inferring facial geometry through color vision. mascara draws attention to the eyes, away from the chin. eye shadow provides the illusion of depth, which, combined with subtle application of blush or contouring foundation, totally changes the shape you see. you're really only inferring an oval from a small handful…
Surgery is indeed a way to alter your facial features, but it's more intrusive than most.