Top Papers in Environmental Science, First Runner-Up: Minerals get more complex

Are top-cited papers more interdisciplinary?

Over the last decade, the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact has been the focus of many bibliometric papers, with diverging results. This paper aims at contributing to this body of research, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarity, compiled with the Simpson Index, of the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results...

Book Review: Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded

This is the premise which the author, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, carries throughout the book. It is an alarming notion for some, acceptable to others, but nonetheless fresh and thought provoking to most. As scientists, we often delegate the actual writing process to a secondary role in the process of scientific investigation and reporting. But as ...

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. Conservation researchers get a new roost in Cambridge.

Do First-Articles in a Journal Issue Get More Cited?

Introduction As the advice of peers on the quality of a submitted paper prior to publication, peer review can be regarded as the pre-publication evaluation. Bibliographic citations of scientific papers used as indicators of the visibility, impact, and quality of scientific publications, could be regarded as the post-publication evaluation. Intentionally or not, journal editors often put the acc...

Bibliometrics : top vision papers

This paper describes a passive stereo system for capturing the 3D geometry of a face in a single-shot under standard light sources. The system is low-cost and easy to deploy. Results are submillimeter accurate and commensurate with those from state-ofthe-art systems based on active lighting, and the models meet the quality requirements of a demanding domain like the movie industry. Recovered mo...