Professor privilege of the day: interrupting a zoom talk by dropping your own paper into the "Everyone" chat room.
Schlagwort: Wissenschaft
Big in the (E)U(SSR).
We present evidence that the number of trips matters for more citations but longer distances are only associated with higher citation numbers for European academics.
Konstantinos Chalvatzis, Peter L. Ormosi: The carbon impact of flying to economics conferences: is flying more associated with more citations? https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1806858
Flying Careers.
We found no relationship between air travel emissions and metrics of academic productivity including hIa (h-index adjusted for academic age and discipline). There was, however, a relationship between emissions and salary that remains significant even when controlling for seniority.
Seth Wynes, Simon D. Donner, Steuart Tannason, Noni Nabors: Academic air travel has a limited influence on professional success. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.109
Bibliegacy.
Make sure to cite these related work items with consistently-formatted bibliographic citations that include page numbers, but no hyperlinks.
A dream of science.
I had a dream that Sci-Hub gets discussed by the U.N. For example, Russia could tell the U.S. that it’s a violation of human rights [to ban Sci-Hub] because the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights says everyone has the right to participate in scientific advancement. But that remained only a dream.
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There is no real community to discuss that, you hardly hear such voices. Not just in the mainstream media, but even on YouTube, for example. It all died by 2013, when Aaron Swartz died.