There are too many medical physics journals!

Too Many Journals

2016 was a year in which the political arena captured social media—transforming America’s 250-year-old electoral process. This was but one more event in the evolution of our digital age, affecting all walks of society. In medicine, the digital era has brought us big data and unprecedented access to knowledge. For example, the cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics houses publicly available genomic data...

Too Many Journals? Nonsense!

Every few weeks I read another journalist’s jab at the value and qttarttity of scientific journals. When discussing the ever-expanding literature, reporters of the popular press frequently indulge in supertlcial analyses that distort reality, whether through misunderstanding or exaggeration. Nancy Jeffrey revealed profound misunderstanding in “Mollusks, Semiotics and Dermatology: Narrow Scholar...

Analyzing Preference Rankings when There Are Too Many Alternatives

Consumer preferences can be measured by rankings of alternatives. When there are too many alternatives, this consumer task becomes complex. One option is to have consumers rank only a subset of the available alternatives. This has an impact on subsequent statistical analysis, as now a large amount of ties is observed. We propose a simple methodology to perform proper statistical analysis in thi...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Medical Men in India: Too Few or Too Many