The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules

...than those that publish new findings. And even though the JIF is meant to rate only journals, most people use it as a proxy for rating individual scientists anyway. Worse, the system can be gamed. Editors have been known to encourage authors to cite articles from their journal (which has the aroma of extortion—"Help us with our JIF if you want to get published"). Journals that print obituaries,...

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Running to bed

Worked : Some issues resolved, but things are far from sorted. Worked2 : My Pelgrane material for Trail of Cthulhu is almost finished, months later than planned, but sometimes life gets in the way. Gamed : Ran Traveller , badly. My brain was not with it. Packed : Off to Edinburgh at ungodlyoclock tomorrow.

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...have a webcam, Bluetooth, at least wireless G, an expressCard slot, the best GFX card reasonable, at least 1 step above the basic processor. (the chip in my old laptop was rather unimpressive, and it still gamed well enough with enough memory and a decent card, and chips are cheaper now, so i am not concerned with a really high end CPU.) Also, a fingerprint reader and TV tuner are nice bonuses. I ...

Pardon me while I burst into flames....

... love is the most important...and well, I just love a whole-lotta things :) I've also decided that when I get back from the field I'm joining the rock climbing gym. I'm adamant about this, too. Anyways.....I gamed tonight with the boys. We played DnD version 4.0....its a weird system, but I think I will grow to like it. I'm such a weird kid. Lol. Oh! And the rest of my stuff came! My gaiters ...

Happy New Year

Hello All Happy New Year. Hope the holidays are treating you well. We got settled in SA, yeah have even gamed once with some of the Austinites :-). Which was great, hadnt seen two of them in ages and missed them. Will get together again in early Jan, so yeah moving means more gaming, happy dance!!!!!Plus we plan on making a few jaunts up to Austin in the not so far off future as well. This ...

The Battle of the Coffee Pot....

Can I say that January 5th can't come fast enough? Yesterday I spent a lazy and lovely afternoon at the boys where I gamed a bit, ate too much hummus, and had the biggest rainbow roll I've ever seen for dinner. While sitting up watching Barbarians II on the HIstory Channel, (one of my favorite History Channel productions), my phone rings. Curious, as it is quite late at this point, I realize it...

The bliss of nothingness.

... slept the first two days. I slept the other three. The day before Yule I went shopping groceries so we would make it the whole holiday, and we had a feats of Yule food and chocolate. We gamed, watched movies, and slept and slept for five days. After two days firstborn was home again and took part in the gaming, movie watching and sleeping. All meals have been in candle light light, our Yule tree ...

... and not get? More money, a steady job, moar snuggles. 30. What was your favorite film of this year? Iron Man. 31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Um. Gamed, I think. And 22. 32. What's one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Keeping my job, the economy not crashing, not having issues with US immigration. 33. How would you describe your ...

My Wondeful Christmas.

... sight. She was enraged, but I forgot she won't beat me in front of family and I'm more likely to be hit alone. My hiding worked, she didn't find me until she was calmed down. My Uncle eventually pried the window open with fireplace shovels. I silently rejoiced. I avoided her anger by being a puppet, as always. We came home, and I gamed a bit, then typed this up... Now I'm sleepy.  Good bye.