For several decades, a leading paradigm of how to quantitatively assess scientific research has been the analysis of the aggregated citation information in a set of scientific publications. Although the representation of this information as a citation network has already been coined in the 1960s, it needed the systematic indexing of scientific literature to allow for impact metrics that actuall...

Current metrics for estimating a scientist's academic performance treat the author's publications as if these were solely attributable to the author. However, this approach ignores the substantive contributions of co-authors, leading to misjudgments about the individual's own scientific merits and consequently to misallocation of funding resources and academic positions. This problem is becomin...

It covers research, teaching, departmental governance, students and social life. It also highlights the extraordinary contributions made to the war effort in both the first and second world wars. From its first professors, A. Wilhelm Hofmann and Edward Frankland, the department has been home to many eminent chemists, including, in the later twentieth century, the Nobel laureates Derek Barton an...

Bettina Bernadotte (BB): What we want to achieve through this dialog is to inspire the scientific youth. It was clear to my father, Count Lennart, who started the Lindau Meetings after World War II, that young people would profit from contact with Nobel Laureates, and that has proven to be the aspect that the Laureates find inspiring too. So it is a dialog between the generations, and between y...