Posts by Graham Kendall
Thomson Reuter Impact Factors: 2012
June 20, 2013
It is that time of the year that all journal editor-in-chiefs and publisher both love and fear. It is the time of the year when the new Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports are released. If the impact factor for your journal of choice has gone up, then all is right with the world and you …
FASS vs FoE vs FoS
June 19, 2013
Each post on this blog is assigned to at least one category. This enables you to look at all the posts for a particular category. Take a look, for example, at the EU category. You can see the categories at the bottom of each post. We should also mention that there are also tags, but …
EU Bulletin – June 2013
June 18, 2013
Please find attached (EuroBulletin Issue 67) the EU Bulletin (Issue 67, 17 June 2013) from the European Union Delegation to Malaysia. Some of the latest news/events in this issue: The EU Ambassadors & Trade Counsellors visit to Cyberjaya organized by InvestKL The extension of the deadline for proposals under the EU-FAO Forest Law Enforcement, Governance …
British Council Funding for International Workshops
June 17, 2013
We have just received this: Call for experienced researchers to propose themes for international workshops The British Council, together with partners around the world, has just launched a new initiative to link together early career researchers from the UK and selected partner countries, through a series of workshops and travel grants. ‘British Council Researcher Links’ …
Numberphile (Pi and the size of the Universe)
June 14, 2013
In this series, we are presenting videos from the Numberphile Videos (Web Site) project. This project is a colllection of videos about numbers. The video below looks at Pi and the size of the Universe. Previous blog entries on this topic can be seen seen here (this is a link to entries tagged with numberphile …
Raising Capital: Where to Find It, How to Secure It, and Tips on What to Avoid
June 13, 2013
Computing and the Law is a very nice series of podcasts from the IEEE Computer Society, which looks at various legal issues. Specifically, the podcasts are delivered by Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. The podcasts are USA centric and tend to (not surprisingly) focus on computing, but I think they are broad …
I am Blue
June 12, 2013
This post was contributed by Professor Ian Harrison I’m feeling Blue Look around, blue is everywhere from decorative lights on cars and computer cases to blue ray DVDs that allow you watch the latest hollywood blockbuster in hi-definition. Ever wondered about the material and devices behind the technology and what the economic drivers were? The …
Research paper ‘sloppiness’ on the increase, warns publisher
June 10, 2013
Thnaks to Ian Harrison for drawing this article to my attention. The Times Higher Education (THE) recently published an article that warns against research sloppiness. Worth a read, even if just to see what problems can be avoided. Header Image: Downloaded from THE (10th Jun 2013) as part of the aricle “Research paper ‘sloppiness’ …
Night School: Mass Civilisation, Minority Culture
June 9, 2013
Sean Matthews from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures recently appeared on Sharaad Kuttan’s new BFM Radio show ‘Night School’, discussing F.R. Leavis’s seminal work, ‘Mass Civilization and Minority Culture’. In a lively discussion, Sean explored, and defended, Leavis’s position, explaining that Leavis’s argument was not about excluding people from knowledge and culture, and …
e-StaffProfile: Please Update
June 7, 2013
A couple of days ago we posted the current state of play with regard to our publications in 2013 (see here). If you have a paper listed in Web of Knowledge or Scopus, you should also ensure that you update e-StaffProfile. Although we can extract data from Web of Knowledge and Scopus for the MyRA …
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