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Monday, September 08, 2003
 


John A. Wheeler. "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." [Quotes of the Day]
What do you think? []  links to this post    4:14:33 PM  
Uncitedness

Here's an interesting article from a decade ago with (perhaps) surprising figures on the uncitedness of academic articles by discipline. It seems disheartening to observe that much published research doesn't seem to be of use to other researchers - at least not enough to warrant a citation. I wonder how things have evolved since.

Research Papers: Who's Uncited Now?

Pendlebury found that physics and chemistry had the lowest rates of uncitedness -- 36.7% and 38.8% of the papers published in those disciplines, respectively, were not cited at all in the 4 years following publication. [...] The figure for engineering, however, is above that average -- well above it, in fact. More than 72% of all papers published in engineering had no citations at all. Pendlebury says he is at a loss to explain this anomaly, although he suggests that "sociological factors" might influence the way engineering researchers cite each other's work.

[...] But scientists, social and otherwise, can take heart. Within the arts and humanities (where admittedly citation is not so firmly entrenched), uncitedness figures hit the ceiling. Consider, for example, theater (99.9%), American literature (99.8%), architecture (99.6%), and religion (98.2%). And, in one curious anomaly, articles in history (95.5%) and philosophy (92.1%) were relatively uncited, while those in history and philosophy of science (29.2%) were not.

This has also got me wondering about rates of unlinkedness for weblog posts. Surely they are huge - though it should be kept in mind that in the blogosphere the order is "publish, then filter" rather than the other way around.

What do you think? []  links to this post    4:14:07 PM  
Hopetoun Cottage

Cottage Living RoomWent across the bridge to Prince Edward Island this weekend and spent a night in Robert Paterson (whose blog has just moved here)'s Hopetoun Cottage near the Hillsborough river.

This is a great setting. You enter the property through a tunnel of big trees. You can take a stroll along the river or around the field just beside the cottage, or you can climb up in the treehouse and watch the eagles fly. A very pleasant place to relax in. And provincial capital Charlottetown is nearby. Rob and his wife are charming, too. Wish I'd stayed longer...

What do you think? []  links to this post    3:45:49 PM  
How's your workplace?

Quantifying Innovation:

  • Challenge How challenged, how emotionally involved, and how committed am I to the work?
  • Freedom How free am I to decide how to do my job?
  • Idea Time Do we have time to think things through before having to act?
  • Idea Support Do we have a few resources to give new ideas a try?
  • Trust and Openness Do people feel safe in speaking their minds and openly offering different points of view?
  • Playfulness and Humor How relaxed is our workplace -- is it OK to have fun?
  • Conflicts To what degree do people engage in interpersonal conflict or "warfare?"
  • Debates To what degree do people engage in lively debates about the issues?
  • Risk-Taking Is it OK to fail when trying new things?

[via elearnspace blog]

Compare: "Compliance vs. Creation".

What do you think? []  links to this post    3:43:12 PM  
Coding and poetry

Patterns and sonnets. [Tesugen.com: Peter Lindbergs Weblog]
What do you think? []  links to this post    3:37:31 PM  
Never forget you're unique. Just like everybody else.

Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content. [Clay Shirky's Essays]

What a great title. If after reading this you still want to pick Fortune, you're a braver man than I.

Though each piece of written material is unique, the universe of possible choices for any given reader is so vast that uniqueness is not a rare quality. Thus any barrier to a particular piece of content (even, as the usability people will tell you, making it one click further away) will deflect at least some potential readers.

This reminded me a bit of Stephen's Five Choices. Content is not scarce. Attention is. These days you are lucky if more than a handful of people want to look at your output. The reality is that few of us are irreplaceable to a large number of people.

(Think the solution is to publish offline? Here's a semi-related factoid you may want to consider.)

What do you think? []  links to this post    3:25:13 PM  
Writing about Place

Chris Corrigan turned me on to the Ecotone wiki, which I find pretty interesting. Check out the Photographing Place topics for instance.

The Ecotone wiki is intended as a portal for those who are interested in learning and writing about place. It came about as a meeting spot for a number of webloggers who write extensively about place in their own blogs and were wishing to work more collaboratively, as well as raise awareness to this genre of weblogs. We hope that this wiki complements our weblogs well: as Chris Corrigan puts it, blogs increase span and wikis increase depth.

I like that phrase, "wikis increase depth". This is what I've always felt wikis were most useful for - characterizing issues and concepts that run deep and have a long shelf-time, that are always current - as opposed to weblogs, which I see more as a medium to alert us to what is changing.

What do you think? []  links to this post    2:47:10 PM  


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