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All your base are belong to JACS
This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s that looked at word clouds made up from the titles of JACS papers from the last 115 years. Jake Yeston commented on Twitter about the lack of catalysis-based words in the clouds. This … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing
Tagged acids, bases, catalysis, chemistry, chemistry publishing, jacs, language, publishing, synthesis, titles, twitter, word clouds
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115 years of JACS titles
When Nature Chemistry celebrated its 5th anniversary last year, we put together a word cloud (using Wordle) featuring the 150 words that appeared most often in the titles of the papers we had published up to that point. That was … Continue reading
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Tagged chemistry, chemistry publishing, graphene, jacs, language, mofs, nature chemistry, new, novel, publishing, reactions, structure, synthesis, word clouds, wordle, words
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A pocket full of what now?
I received the e-mail from @SeeArrOh a little while ago about the impending #ChemMovieCarnival, but I figured I would just be too busy to join in. After seeing the first round up of posts, however, I couldn’t resist, so here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #chemmoviecarnival, analytical chemistry, beltric acid, buckminsterfullerene, c60, chemistry, dialium, jacs, jadarite, krypton, kryptonite, mercury, movies, seearroh, superman, synthesis
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