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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Top 10 Cited References in the 80's
- Message-ID: <Nov.22.20.37.14.1992.16349@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:37:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.193350.7926@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Nov.19.15.43.08.1992.6763@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <1340@kepler1.rentec.com>
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- andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt) writes:
- >Here's my suggestion: Publish an incorrect [top 10 cited] list. Everyone who complains
- >gets his tenure (or equivalent) revoked. Next suggestion: Physics should
- >order authors alphabetically. Final suggestion: all journals drop little
- >biographies and pictures of authors, and authors use initials instead
- >of names.
-
- I like the first one!! But the next is bad, you'd just have people refusing
- to work with anyone who came ahead in the alphabet. In the novel "Cantor's
- Dilemna" by the chemist Carl Djerassi there is a character, a biologist,
- who in grad school changed her name from Yardley to Ardley for this
- reason. In the foreword Djerassi says that he knew a real person who did
- a similar name-change. And I don't like the last suggestion - the initials
- in journals like Phys Rev are annoyingly impersonal. I prefer the
- practice in some astronomy and most biology journals, where first names
- are allowable. It makes the authors more human.
-