Analyze This: Altmetrics and Your Collection

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What paper should I read next? Who should I talk to at a conference? Which research group should get this grant? Researchers and funders alike must make daily judgments on how to best spend their limited time and money–judgments that are becoming increasingly difficult as the volume of scholarly communication increases. Not only does the number of scholarly papers continue to grow, it is joined...

Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering Analyze This! 145 Questions for Data Scientists in Software Engineering

In this paper, we present the results from two surveys related to data science applied to software engineering. The first survey solicited questions that software engineers would like to ask data scientists to investigate about software, software processes and practices, and about software engineers. Our analysis resulted in a list of 145 questions grouped into 12 categories. The second survey ...

Is this your Final(s) answer?∗†

This paper reports on the form in which Oxford Finals question are posed. It criticizes the apparent lack of originality and provides both theoretical and empirical estimates to support this finding. We propose a number of solutions which, if adopted, will substantially improve examination performance and unambiguously raise welfare.

This is your placenta on drugs

Previous studies have shown that children's blood lead concentrations tend to increase during hot summer months. In this issue, Lih-Ming Yiin and colleagues from the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, explore whether some of this elevation can be explained by seasonal increases in t...

This is Your Brain on Parasites.