Geographic distribution of an open access e-journal

Geographic distribution of an open access e-journal

Spatial analysis of usage data for a new open-access library and information science e-journal indicates that within the US the geographic distribution of page views is similar to the geographic distribution of the sponsoring program’s alumni locations. Outside the US, the geographic distribution of page views was greatest in Europe, followed by Asia, Africa and South America. The top two most ...

Genes: an Open Access Journal

Genes have been in the scientific vocabulary for a hundred years. The term "gene" was proposed by the Danish plant scientist Wilhelm Johannsen in the first decade of the 20th century. For Johannsen, the gene remained an abstract concept, "free of any hypothesis" [1], but others were already pointing to chromosomes as the likely location of genes. The science of genetics was born at that time, a...

Drones—An Open Access Journal

Since the beginning of aviation, unmanned aerial systems have been a challenge for scientists and engineers. The first automatic airplane developed by the Wright brothers in 1916 and the drone used by the British Royal Navy for gunnery practice in 1933 serve as examples. The possibility of controlling an aircraft without a pilot has been a challenge, both from the civil and military point of vi...

Insects – An Open Access Journal of Entomology

Games: An Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal

Over the last fifty years, game theory has evolved from a mathematical theory of optimal behaviour in stylized situations (“games”) to a general theory of human behaviour, be it actually observed or normatively desirable. Its scope includes both the mathematical modelling and analysis of competition and conflict and the study of human behaviour in strategic contexts and its determinants. Nowada...