In European research today, mobility has become firmly entrenched as a pre requisite for a successful scientific career; however, the reasons behind this emphasis on scientific nomadism are far from obvious. It is all too common for science policy-makers and funding bodies to extol the seemingly endless virtues of mobility, but it nearly amounts to heresy to ponder the possibility that a move a...

We propose Focused Page Rank (FPR) algorithm adaptation for the problem of scientific papers ranking. FPR is based on the Focused Surfer model, where the probability to follow the reference in a paper is proportional to its citation count. Evaluation on Citeseer autonomous digital library content showed that proposed model is a tradeoff between traditional citation count and basic Page Rank (PR...

The project aims to develop a domain-independent and adaptive approach for scientific document classification using both information fromdocument contents and citation links. We evaluate several content-based classification methods including K-nearest neighbours, nearest centroid, naive Bayes and decision trees and find that the naive Bayes outperform other when training set is sufficiently lar...

TIMOTHY LENOIR, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00. A survey of early nineteenth-century German biology is long overdue, and Lenoir's study of the transition from intuitive Naturphilosophie to the empirical morphology of the Gottingen school is incisive and important. Lenoir counte...

We describe a novel search engine for scientific literature. The system allows for sentence-level search starting from portable document format (PDF) files, and integrates text and image search, thus facilitating the retrieval of information present in tables and figures. It allows the user to generate in an intuitive manner complex queries for search terms that are related through particular g...

Is plagiarism afflicting science? In PNAS, Citron and Ginsparg (1) count the number of authors who are submitting articles containing text already appearing elsewhere. They report disturbing numbers of authors resorting to copying, particularly in some countries where 15% of submissions are detected as containing duplicated material. I am on the editorial board of an Institute of Electrical and...

The abstract section in a scientific paper is a concise, self-explanatory digest of the content of the paper. The abstract should present, in about 250 words, the purpose of the paper, basic protocol, summarized results, and the major conclusions. Detailed background information, analysis, and descriptions are excluded, as are tables, figures and (typically) citations. WRITER'S TIP: Write your ...