7/25/24: Updates and readings on Turing Award and h-index, etc.
Bibliometrics - (1) from biblio- = book; metrics = measurements . Relatively fine-grained measurements about publications, authors, etc. (2) from bibliome = complete corpus of biological texts; metrics = measurements. Relatively large-grained measurements about complete text corpora. This log is at: http://bibliometriks.blogspot.com . Updates: NM - working on learning and using Python along with calling SQL from Python. TO - Method 1: treat each year as a discrete time step as items propagate through the queuing network. Method 2: deal with a degenerate model where the "queues" are always of zero length because a citation is serviced at the instant it arrives/exists. Method 3: a citation arrives on a queue when the citation is made. It is "serviced" when the citing paper is itself cited. Where does that lead? Other considerations: What about not counting self citations? What about citation circles (self citing plus transitivity)? Recall the...