{"id":1422,"date":"2007-05-17T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T11:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/17\/yeah-but-whats-the-impact-fact\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T11:19:27","slug":"yeah-but-whats-the-impact-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/17\/yeah-but-whats-the-impact-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, but What&#8217;s the Impact Factor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/2007\/05\/dark_energy_in_the_17th_centur.php\">Steinn<\/a>, the Smithsonian&#8217;s Astronomy Abstract Service has an index entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/1543droc.book.....C\">some book called <cite>De revolutionibus orbium coelestium<\/cite><\/a> by some Polish guy. They&#8217;ve got a scanned electronic version available for free, but the stupid thing is in Latin, and who speaks that these days?<\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s only got <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/cgi-bin\/nph-ref_query?bibcode=1543droc.book.....C&amp;refs=CITATIONS&amp;db_key=AST\">two citations<\/a>, and both of those are more than ten years old. Boy, this guy will <strong>never<\/strong> get tenure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you have access to JSTOR, you can also read a <a href=\"http:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/1673RSPT....8.6087N\">cranky letter from some guy at Cambridge<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk\/~bdj10\/\">more things change<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As Steinn says, &#8220;I love those intertube thingies, may they never be clogged.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Steinn, the Smithsonian&#8217;s Astronomy Abstract Service has an index entry for some book called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by some Polish guy. They&#8217;ve got a scanned electronic version available for free, but the stupid thing is in Latin, and who speaks that these days? Also, it&#8217;s only got two citations, and both of those&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/17\/yeah-but-whats-the-impact-fact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, but What&#8217;s the Impact Factor?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}