tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post1167752243815115953..comments2024-02-16T09:13:32.131-07:00Comments on Professor Chaos: The League of Super EcologistsProfessor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15218728439335729853noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-21094518388359990102008-12-13T19:49:00.000-07:002008-12-13T19:49:00.000-07:00The inventor of the h-index recognized there would...The inventor of the h-index recognized there would be this correlation and proposed the "m-index" to deal with it. m is just h divided by number of years since your first publication. Basically it's the slope of your h-index line over time; larger m means your citations are increasing faster.<BR/><BR/>I would expect m-index to be closer to having no correlation with years since Ph.D. Though itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-91380844885890955962008-11-10T16:33:00.000-07:002008-11-10T16:33:00.000-07:00Hi, you know, seeing the differences between your ...Hi, you know, seeing the differences between your plot and mine me think that there probably IS something real there - and that it wouldn't be totally daft to write a little paper, maybe for one of the ecological society newsletters e.g. British Ecological Society Bulletin, which takes short notes and so on. In the UK, h-index is being proposed as one of the new metrics for the assessment of JaneBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779448611795379774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-45663435032982394812008-11-09T15:15:00.000-07:002008-11-09T15:15:00.000-07:00for better, mostly worse, forced collaboration wit...for better, mostly worse, forced collaboration with super ecologists (at least for me personally) involves NO INPUT, NO MENTORING, NO LOGISTICAL HELP from "supers"... just a wham bam here you go ma'am, stick me last on the paper, bu-bye now.<BR/><BR/>The only thing most supers contribute is their name - they hog the last author slot. And it seems that the supers all cluster with the supers, and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-3682892027414593532008-11-08T07:13:00.000-07:002008-11-08T07:13:00.000-07:00odyssey - I find the field differences pretty inte...odyssey - I find the field differences pretty interesting. The first time I really thought about it was the discussion over at DrugMonkey about the size of their meetings. Ecology's big meeting is ~4-5k. Their meetings were closer to 30k. That's a big difference the number of people writing and citing papers! But I don't think there's been any systematic study of this.<BR/><BR/>Ecogeofemme - oh, Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15218728439335729853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-76211419000305915882008-11-07T18:47:00.000-07:002008-11-07T18:47:00.000-07:00What about some kind of correction for placement i...What about some kind of correction for placement in author list? Such as any authorship other than first/asterisk shared second/last is given less weight? The 27 author Science paper usually doesn't have 27 equally contributing authors...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-34278059054677547382008-11-07T18:07:00.000-07:002008-11-07T18:07:00.000-07:00Very interesting. All but one of my publications h...Very interesting. All but one of my publications have come out in the last year, so it will be neat to see how my H-index changes in the next year or two as people start to site my recent manuscripts.Candid Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01722793931639972423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-74756930377120574442008-11-07T17:00:00.000-07:002008-11-07T17:00:00.000-07:00Does ESA keep a membership list that is categorize...Does ESA keep a membership list that is categorized by job type? You could get a random sample from something like that.EcoGeoFemmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236907917990309659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-76251586031133292762008-11-07T10:23:00.000-07:002008-11-07T10:23:00.000-07:00Whereas I'm substantially below your line - I've s...Whereas I'm substantially below your line - I've speculated about this on my blog today, a great way not to grade...JaneBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779448611795379774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-77740052469915469162008-11-07T08:37:00.000-07:002008-11-07T08:37:00.000-07:00Very interesting indeed. Curiously my h-index is p...Very interesting indeed. Curiously my h-index is pretty much where your line would predict it to be, despite the fact I'm very much not an ecologist. (Or in a Super League of any kind.) I guess that's just an illustration of differences between fields.Odysseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14589096873729951466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-15405159674079596682008-11-07T08:22:00.000-07:002008-11-07T08:22:00.000-07:00The problem I ran into is I couldn't figure out wh...The problem I ran into is I couldn't figure out what the pool that one would make the random draw from actually <I>is</I>! All authors that have published in certain journals in the past year? Would you then need to randomly choose journals you would pull names from? Is the better pool all ecologists with faculty positions during the past 5 years? Then you miss post-docs and non-academic Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15218728439335729853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7452612772719615022.post-55490614910625634412008-11-07T07:53:00.000-07:002008-11-07T07:53:00.000-07:00...why not take a random sample?it would be intere......why not take a random sample?<BR/><BR/>it would be interesting to see if the h-index is normally distributed in general...<BR/><BR/><BR/>mmm the possibilities... mmmm stats...mmmEugeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312243477847551650noreply@blogger.com