{"id":4368,"date":"2010-09-21T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2010-09-21T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:19:32","slug":"i-sound-my-lonely-trumpet-in-the-dark-trying-to-relax-at-the-edge-of-precipice-which-once-again-faces-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/09\/21\/i-sound-my-lonely-trumpet-in-the-dark-trying-to-relax-at-the-edge-of-precipice-which-once-again-faces-me\/","title":{"rendered":"&#034;I sound my lonely trumpet in the dark trying to relax at the edge of precipice which once again faces me&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve sends me this gem, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0905.1039v2\">arXiv:0905.1039<\/a>.\u00a0 The title of this blog post being a line from the paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citation entropy and research impact estimation<br \/>\nZ.K. Silagadze<br \/>\nA new indicator, a real valued $s$-index, is suggested to characterize a quality and impact of the scientific research output. It is expected to be at least as useful as the notorious $h$-index, at the same time avoiding some its obvious drawbacks. However, surprisingly, the $h$-index is found to be quite a good indicator for majority of real-life citation data with their alleged Zipfian behaviour for which these drawbacks do not show up. The style of the paper was chosen deliberately somewhat frivolous to indicate that any attempt to characterize the scientific output of a researcher by just one number always has an element of a grotesque game in it and should not be taken too seriously. I hope this frivolous style will be perceived as a funny decoration only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if this will provoke a response from my dear friend the <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2380\">Sad Physicist<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve sends me this gem, arXiv:0905.1039.\u00a0 The title of this blog post being a line from the paper: Citation entropy and research impact estimation Z.K. Silagadze A new indicator, a real valued $s$-index, is suggested to characterize a quality and impact of the scientific research output. It is expected to be at least as useful &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/09\/21\/i-sound-my-lonely-trumpet-in-the-dark-trying-to-relax-at-the-edge-of-precipice-which-once-again-faces-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#034;I sound my lonely trumpet in the dark trying to relax at the edge of precipice which once again faces me&#034;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha","category-the-loony-bin-called-academia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}