Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Obscure references

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One of my PhD students (Hi, Chris!) is absolutely brilliant at finding obscure papers relevant to his research. In our recent paper , ther...

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Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Meeting and Eating

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I must confess at the start of this post that I'm probably at one extreme on the issue that I'm posting about, but perhaps not too...

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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Google Scholar Annoyances

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Last week, I posted about Google Scholar , and how it ranks areas of the arXiv above most journals in terms of a whole-journal h index....

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Thursday, 22 November 2012

End of the World

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Last night featured the latest in the series of Institute of Physics South Central Branch talks that I organise at the University of Surr...

Sunday, 18 November 2012

the arXiv and metrics

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Open access publishing continues to make the news, or if not the news then at least the pundits' and bloggers' musings. Followin...

Friday, 16 November 2012

Ben Elton's Dad

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Yesterday, when driving home, I listened to that program that comes on after the evening outing of The Archers on Radio 4. It involved a...

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

No more in '94

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A picture, from uossnaps , from before the 1994 Group existed. Most, but not all, UK universities belong to a so-called "mission ...

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