Category Archives: Organizing

Journal Citations and Impact Factor

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last week, I talked about H-Index which is a metric for measuring the impact an author has in his field.  This week, I will discuss Impact Factor (IF) which is one way to measure the impact a journal has in … Continue reading →

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More Controlled Vocabulary

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

As I mentioned last week, my original theme for the month was to go over controlled vocabulary such as the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) used in Scitation and IEEE Xplore, the Mathematics Subject Classification (MCS) used in MathSciNet, … Continue reading →

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MeSH Descriptors

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last week talked about chemistry.  Today we talk about medicine.  Specifically, we will discuss Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).  MeSH is an example of controlled vocabulary which we is our topic for this month.  Controlled vocabulary is used in indexes to … Continue reading →

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Presenting your Data

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Now that you have decided how to organize your data, how do you present it?  Today’s information is based in part on A.V. Abela‘s popular Chart Chooser diagram which is also available in an interactive form.  Although the chart chooser … Continue reading →

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Organizing Data in your Paper

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Christina Chan-Park

Last time, I mentioned that if you have multiple experiments that you should decide on an order and then stick to that order.  So how do you decide on an order?  Let’s say this is your data You might decide … Continue reading →

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