Misconceptions about writing a thesis (links)Mike Gould of Communication Consultants Michael Gould Associates BV

It’s publish (and get cited) or perish

A university department, research organization or individual’s impact factor can be evaluated using web services such as:

• Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge (http://www.webofknowuledge.com)

• Elsevier’s SCOPUS (http:// www.scopus.com)• Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com), or• Microsoft Academic Research (

http://academic.research.com)For Article-Level Metrics Information, see:http://www.plosone.org/static/almInfo.action

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigenThe Sokal Affair: an experiment to test a journal's intellectual rigor and, find out if it would publish an article “liberally salted with nonsense if it (a) sounded good and (b) flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions.” The pseudo-paper was published:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair For a similar effect see this spoof lecture by an actor. Google: The Great Dr. Fox Lecture, A Vintage Academic Hoax

Do you want to create a random pseudo-scientific article?

Some ideas worth considering

• Should everyone submit the truth, the whole truth (and nothing but the truth)? http://www.reproducibleresearch.net/index.php/RR_material

• Free subscription, no author charges, high quality! http://www.jstatsoft.org/

• Read more about Open Culture http://free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf

• Open peer review e.g. http://copernicus.org