A citations analysis Purpose of this paper This paper addresses the question: should the world s top universities be led by top researchers, and are they? Design / methodology / approach The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the world s top 100 universities identified in a global university ranking. These numbers are then normalised by adjusting for the different citation...

IN 2006, Americans were exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures as was the case in the early 1980’s, according to a new report on population exposure released March 3, 2009, by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) at its annual meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2006, medical exposure constituted nearly half of the total...

I would like to collect cases of scientists who, in recent years, became heads (presidents, chancellors, prime ministers) their countries. need information from you, especially countries transition all parts the worid, including newest and smallest country Gronland (Greenland), nearly technologizing world such as India South Africa. A collection will be very useful for political social policy m...

STOLEN Sixteenth-century icon painted on wood: Virgin and Child. The painting is badly damaged and only part of the head of the Infant Jesus is visible. Dimensions: height (left) 24.1 cm, (right) 20.7 cm, width 23.4 cm, thickness 1.7 cm. Corrigendum We would like to apologise for the error printed in Jim Angus's article in Museum International 205. The final paragraph of his article should have...

We introduce a simple solution to help consumers manage choices between healthy and unhealthy food options: vice-virtue bundles. Vice-virtue bundles are item aggregates with varying proportions of both vice and virtue, holding overall quantity constant. Four studies compare choice and perceptions of differently composed vice-virtue bundles relative to one another and to pure vice and pure virtu...

This issue of Pedometron is timed to coincide with the biennial meeting of the Pedometrics Commission, Pedometrics 2007, which is taking place in Tübingen, Germany, from 27th August. I am sure that, as in the past, the Pedometrics meeting will be a great success, and offer my thanks to Thorsten Behrens, Thomas Scholten and Volker Hennings for their work in organizing it. If you are at the meeti...