8/29/24 (#8)

 

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?
  • TO suggests people present summaries of papers during meetings. He is willing to start off next week.
    
  • NM. Proceeding, data collection is fairly complete. Currently debugging software.
    
  • 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.
  • The obvious queries provide papers on the bibliometrics of queuing theory work, not what we want which is papers about using queuing theory to understand bibliometrics. Still, the query results should be included in the proposal even if they were not what was hoped for.
  • A web search on the query:
  • queuing theory for dummies
  finds that actual phrase, and results in some sources that might be good to read to get up to speed on queuing theory; 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): 
• TO suggests people present summaries of papers during meetings. He is willing to start this off.
• 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 11:58.