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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.

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• Updates:
  • Future meeting scheduling - HB not here Aug. 29, Sept. 12. Would a Th afternoon or Friday morning work better for meetings?
    
  • NM. Carrying on.
    
  • TO (see https://bibliometriks.blogspot.com/p/to.html for current status). Literature review should include:
  • Does JF's proposal discuss queues at all? Perhaps Simul8 uses queues...check on that.
  • Do a replicatable search for use of queuing theory for bibliometrics. There may be little or nothing, but if you document how you searched, others would be able to verify and repeat the process themselves. This is the essence of the SLR (systematic literature review) method of reviewing the literature on a topic.
  • A web search on the query:
  • queuing theory for dummies
  finds that actual phrase, and results in, for example, 

  • Queuing Theory: Simple Definition, Notation and ..., Statistics How To,

    https://www.statisticshowto.com › queuing-theory,  Nov 9, 2017 — Queuing theory is the study of queues and the random processes that characterize them. It deals with making mathematical sense of real-life ...

  • Basics of Queueing Theory, Data Action Lab,

    https://www.data-action-lab.com › 2020/09 › Sli..., Queuing theory is a branch of mathematics that studies and models the act of waiting in lines. This module defines the building blocks of – and derives – basic.

  • Queueing Theory for Dummies - Embedded

    embedded.com

    https://www.embedded.com › queueing-theory-for-dum...

    Mar 15, 2001 — The idea is that the funnel or queue can absorb only a temporary excess of production over consumption during an occasional burst. And so a ...

• R&D (read & discuss): Meho, L.; Akl, E. Using Bibliometrics to Detect Unconventional Authorship Practices and Examine Their Impact on Global Research Metrics, 2019-2023. Preprints 2024, 2024070691, https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.0691.v1. We have finished up to the Introduction section but did not read from it today.
  
• We adjourned at 11:50.