I am a third year Ph.D. student in Applied Science & Technology. My research advisor is Graham Fleming, in the Department of Chemistry. Our group studies energy transfer and photoprotection in photosynthesis of fundamental concern for alternative energy and food production applications. I hold a B.S. in Physics and Political Science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and hope to find...

A number of journal classification systems have been developed in bibliometrics since the launch of the Citation Indices by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) in the 1960s. The best known system is the so-called “Web-of-Science Subject Categories” (WCs). Each system has its own advantages and disadvantages. Using the Journal Citation Reports 2014 of the Science Citation Index and the...

Do Article Influence scores overestimate the citation impact of social science journals in subfields that are related to higher-impact natural science disciplines? Unlike Impact Factors (IF), Article Influence (AI) scores assign greater weight to citations that appear in highly cited journals. The natural sciences tend to have higher citation rates than the social sciences. We might therefore e...

There is much more involved in the nature/nurture debate than an abstract theoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of thetheoretical disagreement among dispassionate scientists. Each side of the debate leads logically to significantly different views of the social order and holds different implications for social policy. In this paper I shall argue that Boas’ Anthropol...

This chapter discusses the relation between Social Networks and Semantics – two areas that have recently gathered a lot of attention from both academia and industry. We show how synergies between these two areas can be used to solve concrete problems, and we describe three approaches that demonstrate the potential for interconnecting these technologies. The first approach focuses on the semanti...