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Chemistry journal citation distributions
Over at my day job, I recently looked at the distribution of citations that 2012 and 2013 Nature Chemistry papers (Articles, Reviews and Perspectives) received in 2014 – essentially the citations that are used to calculate the 2014 impact factor … Continue reading
Citation circles
Here’s another slide – some chemistry journal citation stats; interpret as you see fit!
Papers published in 2012
Here’s a copy of a slide from my publishing talk. This compares the numbers of papers published in some general chemistry journals and a few non-chemistry-specific journals; it hammers home just how big PLOS One is! The data comes from … Continue reading
Friday fun: Selling yourself
Over the last few days I’ve been updating some of the slides I use in my ‘Scientific publishing and communicating chemistry’ talk. One of the slides looks at five general-chemistry journals and pulls some quotes from their websites that they … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Publishing, Quiz time!
Tagged angewandte chemie, chem commun, chem sci, chemistry, friday fun, fun, impact factor, jacs, journals, metrics, nature chemistry, publishing
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Where you all come from to read this stuff
I see that Henry Rzepa just put up a post about where the readers of his blog come from. 144 countries, with India at number 3, and so on. I thought I’d put mine up for comparison — these are … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, geography, metrics, readers, readership, stats
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