A great article discussing the major issue of hyped social media presence:
“Social media makes it very easy for people to build a seemingly impressive persona by essentially ‘shouting louder’ than others. Having an opinion on something does not make one an expert.”
A parallel due to word processing: Profs #publish more & congress increases legislative verbosity. Outrageous bills
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21590368-why-congress-writes-such-long-laws-outrageous-bills
Why Congress writes such long laws
Nov 23rd 2013 | WASHINGTON, DC
.@jonathanelee Or Link Rot in action in science. Missing Links
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/missing-links-access-to-research-papers-raw-data-drops-17-a-year/282548 #reproducibleresearch
From
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3827/#pubmedhelp.Search_Field_Descrip some useful field descriptors, include:
Last author = [Lastau]
First author = [1au]
Grant = [GR]
Here are some examples employing these from the end of 2012:
(1) My overall query {Q} (from papers page, http://papers.gersteinlab.org) =
((Gerstein M[Author] NOT (1957[dp] : 1990[dp])) NOT 10787728[UID] NOT 11744447[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 14730174[UID] NOT 16081066[UID] NOT 14663468[UID] NOT 17270657[UID] NOT 21243890[UID] NOT
21406498[UID] NOT 21945273[UID]OR 15499007[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 17571346[UID] OR 8877505[UID] OR 8816770[UID] OR 7540695[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7567918[UID] OR 7577841[UID] OR 7567917[UID] OR 7643385[UID] OR 8749848[UID] OR 8808580[UID] OR 8120887[UID] OR 8029203[UID] OR 8204609[UID] OR 7922041[UID] OR 7584390[UID] OR 8078776[UID] OR 8428572[UID] OR 8429559[UID] OR 8464069[UID] OR 8234227[UID] OR 8230220[UID] OR 1584800[UID] OR 2067013[UID] OR 20981092[UID] OR 21526222[UID])
==> yields 426 papers (from my total of 449)
(2) Last author papers
(2a) Gerstein M[Lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 242 last author papers
(2b) GM[GR] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 33 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NIGMS
(2c) GM[HG] AND Gerstein M[lastau] AND {Q}
==> yields 45 of 242 last author papers supported by NIH/NHGRI
(3) 1st author papers
(3a) Gerstein M[1au] AND {Q}
==> yields 41 first author papers
(3b) Gerstein M[lastau] AND Gerstein M[1au] AND {Q}
==> yields 11 sole author papers
(4) Reviews
Gerstein M[lastau] AND review[PT] NOT PLOS ONE[Journal] AND {Q} ==> yields 19 Reviews
Bubble Popper !
By allowing peers to test some of the hypotheses stated in a theoretical paper (or stating that some statement(s) in the paper need additional justification)…
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12171/full
~15M authors => ~150K w/ H>=20 => ~500 w/ highest citations &/or H >75 => 407 w/ further filters => 13 in Genomics & 4 from Yale
~400 top authors by h-score & citations from 15K in biomed.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.12171/abstract
Mozilla reviews @PLOSCompBiol code articles: What does peer review mean when applied to computer code
http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2013/08/08/what-does-peer-review-mean-when-applied-to-computer-code MT @lindseeeeee
http://blogs.plos.org/biologue/2013/08/08/what-does-peer-review-mean-when-applied-to-computer-code/
Debate rages over availability of history dissertations in NYT: Does a 6-year embargo make sense? http://bit.ly/13VgQCD via @ivanoransky