Dan and James discuss the role of Google Scholar in citation patterns and whether we should limit academics to only publishing two papers a year.
James has a new Hertz-quartersThe Metascience conference How is google scholar influencing citation patternsA slide from @Jevinwest's presentation on Google ScholarsIs this a symptom of lazy citaton practices rather than the algorithm?What are the alternatives to google scholar?Should google open up the algorithm?GS will find your preprint and link it to the paywall linkWhy is Google Scholar free?What would make GS better?Using the Zotero plugin for to collected citation info in bulk from search results in GSTop recommended articles in GS are phenomenal GS is not great for meta-analysisGS reduces frictionShould we limit academics to only publishing two papers a year, as suggested by former guest, Dorothy Bishop?Who would stand to lose from this?Is this idea practical? What if only a few countries or institutions implemented this?The Japanese math genius who posts papers on his own website Chaos in the brickyard paperChaos in the brickyard cartoon
Open data isn’t a new concept
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