Books About Books (Book Reviews)

Segmenting and Characterizing Adopters of E-Books and Paper Books Based on Amazon Book Reviews

Lu Guan1, Yafei Zhang1,2, and Jonathan J. H. Zhu1 1 Web Mining Lab, Department of Media and Communication City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai 200240, China. [email protected], [email protected], j....

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Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...

Can Book Reviews be Used to Evaluate Books' Influence?

Introduction Citation frequency has become a popular index for quality evaluation of academic publications, e.g. articles, journals or books. Traditional altmetrics researches pay less attention to book-level evaluation, and they do not make use of content information. In this paper, we present a novel method, reviewmetrics, namely altmetrics to evaluate academic books based on reviews. We comb...

Reviews of Recent Books

The structure of this book is an interesting variant on familiar text-books of psychology. After a brief introductory chapter on the subject-matter and methods of the science, the student is plunged at once into the technical field of animal psychology. The author admits in his preface that this chapter is " the least well rounded and comprehensive "; and this is true. It is so because many of ...

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