scientometrics

Overview: The Bruna Lab at the University of Florida is recruiting a Master’s student with an interest in scientometrics, metascience, or social network analysis to become part of an emerging research group in Latin American Science and Science Policy based in the Center for Latin American Studies.

[caption id=“attachment_1294” align=“alignright” width=“500”] Coauthorship network of all articles in 55 ecological journals from 2001-2010 that include at least one coauthor from Costa Rica (Bruna & Hahn, unpubl. data).

The paper a group of students and I wrote in which we evaluate the gender composition of 10 editorial boards in environmental biology has just been published in the open access journal PeerJ.

“Publicação científica e rede de interações de autoria na America Latina” 2 de junho de 2014 – 11h Auditorio 2 do Centro Didático Dr. Emilio Bruna, editor chefe da Biotropica, estudou a publicação dos melhores jornais da área de Ecologia e descreve o perfil das autorias e as mudanças de produtividade que ocorreram em 18 países da America Latina nas últimas décadas.

Image: “Pen and Paper”, by Orin Zabest.  This semester I taught a 1-unit workshop on scientific publication for graduate students. As part of the workshop we studied how bias – geographic, institutional, gender, etc.

Diego (above) still has not published any papers, so he is still doomed professionally. Last year Bill Laurance and colleagues published an article in Bioscience whose take home message was that you could predict the longish-term publication success of scientists by simply looking at their pre-PhD publication record.

Diego (above) has not published any papers yet, so he is obviously doomed professionally.  NB: There is an update on this post here.  Bill Laurance and colleagues just published a really interesting paper in the October issue of Bioscience in which they analyzed the pre- and post-PhD publication records of 182 “academics” (faculty members?