Visualization of Scientific Collaboration and Scientific Journals Ontology Explorer

Posted by Celia Walter | 31 Jan, 2011

Visualization of Scientific Collaboration Between Researchers + Scientific Journals Ontology Explorer

Research analyst, Olivier Beauchesne, at Science-Metrix examines scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009...

[from] citation networks, authors and their affiliations, abstracts, etc...  I extracted and aggregated scientific collaboration between cities all over the world. For example, if a UCLA researcher published a paper with a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would create an instance of collaboration between Los Angeles and Tokyo. The result of this process is a very long list of city pairs, like Los Angeles-Tokyo, and the number of instances of scientific collaboration between them. ... [Here is the link to a] hi-resolution and zoomable version of the map.

 

See also: Scientific Journals Ontology Explorer (via Science-Metrix) [which] Includes the "Map of Science".

via Resourceblog

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What scientists do

Posted by Celia Walter | 6 Feb, 2009

What scientists do
This talk, one of a series given at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, features US-based scientist Kary Mullis. It includes a discussion of scientific experimentation and Mullis's breakthrough PCR invention, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The talk is 29 minutes in length and provided in several formats for embedded or downloadable viewing. It should be useful for students, teachers and researchers. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kary_mullis_on_what_scientists_do.html

From Celia:

I have watched some TED video lectures on CTV. They were both informative and entertaining.

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SciTopics: experts summarise scientific topics; with links to journal articles and web sites. Updated

Posted by Celia Walter | 22 Jan, 2009

SciTopicsSciTopics is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific scientific topics, and where links to the latest, most relevant journal literature and web sources are presented on one page. There are also lots of RSS Feeds. From Elsevier.

And a review in InfoToday

From Peter Scott's Library blog

 

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Scientific Red Cards for Research Misconduct

Posted by Celia Walter | 20 Dec, 2008

The aim of this website is to take inventory of scientific publications for which research misconduct has been assessed. Research misconduct in publications include:

  • Data-related misconduct : falsification, fabrication and plagiarism
  • Publication-related misconduct : non respect of editorial policies and standards
  • Research practice misconduct : unethical treatment of research subjects
Article in Science Daily

Red Cards List Prefatory statement:

We wish to inform you that this page records papers for which ad hoc committees have assessed specific kinds of misconduct. This does not necessarily mean that the papers contain erroneous data. We invite you to have a look at the whole site and specially at the About section for more details.

Openness and criticism are essential features of research. Here we intend to provide better access to information for readers to make up their mind and for science to build on.

 

Who is behind this web site?

We are PhD students, having different scientific backgrounds and now carrying out PhD projects in life sciences. We all share a deep interest in the relationships between scientific research and society and a strong motivation for promoting integrity in research.

In addition, we believe that scientific integrity can be promoted through education. Not only should students be aware that a responsible conduct of research is essential for doing good science, they should also develop abilities to detect and deal with scientific misconduct when it arises.

Feel free to contact us at contact@scientificredcards.org !

 

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Shvoong : the worldwide abstracts - literature and science

Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jul, 2008

Shvoong : the worldwide abstracts site
'Shvoong', meaning 'momentum' in Yiddish', is a website which offers abstracts whose aim is to 'summarize all that has been written throughout human history in the areas of literature and scientific research'. While this is unlikely to be achieved, this ambitious project aims to reduce the search time spent by students, researchers and others in locating the material they need. Each abstract may be read in a format chosen by the reader, with a maximum of 300, 600 or 900 hundred words, and in a wide range of languages. The site also reviews and abstracts the contents of the daily world press. The site is a free resource, funded by advertising, which offers a fee based on the number of readers for the writing and translating of new material. Therefore, each reader is asked to rate the abstracts they use, thereby maintaining the quality of the site's material. All abstract writers are 'random surfers' and writing is submitted in all common languages, with the option for immediate translation into 12 major languages. As automatic translations can be of variable quality, human translators, also surfers, will work to provide higher quality translations. The site may be searched under the headings of 'Books', 'Science', 'Humanities', 'WWW' and 'Newspapers', and then by details of the text and the level of abstract required. This is an unusual resource, deliberately featuring text-only to minimise download time, which is easily navigated and offers value to a wide range of researchers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.shvoong.com/

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