The Scientific Merit of Amateur Astrophotography

Quantifying Scientific Merit

Use of impact factor (IF) to quantify scientific merit is severely flawed. Three changes are recommended to strengthen the assessment of journals that primarily report basic research: (1) calculate IF based on original scientific contributions; (2) use the 5-year IF; and (3) eliminate selfcitation. For journals reporting clinical trials and population research, an index of readership, such as d...

The Citation Merit of Scientific Publications

We propose a new method to assess the merit of any set of scientific papers in a given field based on the citations they receive. Given a field and a citation impact indicator, such as the mean citation or the [Formula: see text]-index, the merit of a given set of [Formula: see text] articles is identified with the probability that a randomly drawn set of [Formula: see text] articles from a giv...

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

A Quantitative Measure of Experimental Scientific Merit

Experimental program review in our field may benefit from a more quantitative framework within which to quantitatively discuss the scientific merit of a proposed program of research, and to assess the scientific merit of a particular experimental result. This article proposes explicitly such a quantitative framework. Examples of the use of this framework in assessing the scientific merit of par...

Tracking the merit of merit pay