[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Arif Jinha
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[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Arthur Sale
Thank you Arif.  I have read the article this afternoon (3 January) and will download and look through your thesis asap.   However I feel compelled to re-emphasize to the list that I am not looking for an estimate of how many articles are published annually, or ever. The first of those pieces

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Andrew Odlyzko
Arthur, There is far more difficulty in counting researchers than in counting articles. The problem is the inherent ambiguity in the term researcher. Who qualifies? How do you tell the difference between research and development? What do you do about all the support staff (such as the

[GOAL] Les Carr's analyses of Mendeley on Repositoryman

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
Begin forwarded message: From: Les A Carr lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk Date: January 3, 2012 11:24:40 AM EST Subject: Re: Mendeley users ...I did do a couple of analyses of Mendeley effectiveness for OA about 12 months ago. You can see my writeups here:

[GOAL] Re: Les Carr's analyses of Mendeley on Repositoryman

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2012-01-03, at 1:01 PM, Les Carr wrote: ...Mendley is not any more successful in providing OA than repositories That's UNMANDATED repositories, of course. MANDATED repositories are far more successful than either Mendeley or unmandated repositories:

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Arif Jinha
Arthur, Great work.  Just trying to save you some time.  Here's what I found after working on it for about 2 years. - # of researchers in the world is reported by UN data in the Science Report.  - That figure directly relates to the number of journal titles which relates directly to the number

[GOAL] Fwd: Harvard response to the White House RFI on OA to publicly funded research

2012-01-03 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear all: The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US federally funded research has been extended to January 12. http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from Please do

[GOAL] Re: How many researchers are there?

2012-01-03 Thread Lee Giles
I would like to ask a counting question since all of this is based on good counting and a great deal of faith is placed on the the counters. Even the US census knows the issues with doing this and resorts to capture/recapture methods to get things right. Counting papers should be rather