In this interview Sascha Friesike presents his vision about changing academic structures. questions the fanatical fixation on “excellence” and promotes more freedom of research greater plurality in careers. Furthermore, he hopes for a landscape which “impact” is understood as ideas that really matter not perpetuation perverse metrics. He argues researchers should be supported prioritizing shari...

Some scholars add authors to their research papers or grant proposals even when those individuals contribute nothing to the research effort. Some journal editors coerce authors to add citations that are not pertinent to their work and some authors pad their reference lists with superfluous citations. How prevalent are these types of manipulation, why do scholars stoop to such practices, and who...

High time resolution observations at 115 MHz and 150 MHz have confirmed the marching subpulse behavior of CP1919 and AP2015+28 reported by Drake and Craft,I and have revealed similar behavior in MP0031 and CP0808 (Fig. II-1). The marching patterns for all four pulsars slope in the same sense; i. e., subpulses occur slightly earlier within the average pulse window with each succeeding pulse. Sim...

This thesis argues that principles of economy play an important role in determining the form of linguistic structures at the interface with the semantic component. The argument comes in the form of a variety of proposals regarding specific mechanisms that are active at this interface. Specifically, I suggest that Economy plays a role in determining relative scope, variable binding, and the form...

We propose a systematic approach to analyzing academic research performance at universities and research institutes. The analysis of research performance is based on a set of (abstract) criteria which are relevant from the decision maker’s point of view. The scales for these criteria are defined by means of concrete indicators. All indicators are, however, not necessarily quantitative. Qualitat...

This is one of a series of reviews of sabermetric articles published in academic journals. It is part of a project of mine to collect and catalog sabermetric research, and I would appreciate learning of and receiving copies of any studies of which I am unaware. Please visit the Statistical Baseball Research Bibliography at its new location www.udel.edu/communication/pavitt/biblioexplan.htm . Us...

Numerous scholars have expressed concern over the growing “privatization of the scientific commons” represented by the growth in academic patenting. Even before the Bayh-Dole Act and the pervasive patenting of academic science, however, there was an earlier concern over the extent to which the drive for recognition among scientists and competition for priority and associated rewards also limite...

For some time there has been a discrepancy between theoretical and experimental values of microwave absorption in the terrestrial atmosphere. We felt that this is due to shortcomings in the theoretical treatment of pressure broadening when the significant overlap between adjacent lines occurs. Formal theories of pressure broadening have been given but have not been applied to the specific case ...

Libraries have long stood on the shifting sands of change. The key to survival has been to understand that change and meet it at the point of need. Starr Hoffman's work provides a road map to that change as academic reference librarians make the shift to academic research support librarians. She emphasizes that the traditional role focused on discovery and instructional services has moved into ...