The Mathematics Genealogy Project (http://www. genealogy.ams.org/) is a database of over 150 000 scholars with advanced degrees in mathematics and related fields. Entries include dissertation titles, adviser(s), graduation years, degree-granting institutions, and advisees. The MGP is popular among mathematicians, and it can be used to trace academic lineages through luminaries like Courant, Hil...

Abstract The role that humans played in the extinction of Pleistocene proboscideans is highly controversial. Ethnohistoric records elephant hunting, concert with theoretical rationales, are often used as proxy evidence to support view ancient regularly and efficiently targeted large-sized point extinction. This paper examines socioeconomic technological contexts hunting contemporary ethnohistor...

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Herbert Gleiter promoted the development of nanostructured materials on a variety of levels. In 1981 already, he formulated research visions and produced experimental as well as theoretical results. Still he is known only to a small community of materials scientists. That this is so is itself a telling feature of the imagined community of nanoscale research. After establishing the plausibility ...

The evaluation of science uses a variety of bibliometric indicators mostly based on citations despite not having an unequivocal relationship between citations and scientific quality. These indicators however, encompass more than an indication of visibility, relevance and impact of the articles and may represent in a researcher’s career prestige, job opportunities, career promotion, awards, rese...

PRESTIGE is a project for applying telematics to assist the dissemination and application of clinical practice guidelines and protocols. Previous publications have described PRESTIGE's technical approach, including the use of a generic model for representing the knowledge content of clinical guidelines. This approach offers the possibility of 'plug-and-play' electronic distribution of clinical ...

Substantial research documents the determinants of entry into the academic career, yet little is known about how these determinants have evolved over time. Using data from a large sample of Korean scholars who received their doctoral degrees between 1980 and 2010, we estimate discrete-time event history models of transitioning to an academic position in any academic field. Results indicate that...

Publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship indicator of scientific prestige, shows dramatic gender disparities. A bibliometric analysis included yoked-control authors matched for Ph.D. prestige and cohort. Though women publish less, at slower annual rates, they are more cited in handbooks and textbooks per JPSP-article-published. No gender differences emerged on...

One of the great unanswered questions in governance research is, Why do directors serve on boards? Drawing on self-determination theory, a theory of total motivation that combines both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, we find that the prestige associated with being a director, the ability to have influence, and identification with the director role make directors less likely to exit; howeve...

This article aims to shed some light on the impact of emergence hypersonic weapons strategic and political realities. Firstly, it briefly describes underlying laws physics technologies related hypersonics. Secondly, investigates consequences developing new systems. The general assumption is that already fielded systems, those will enter service in foreseeable future not significantly change glo...