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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Top 10 Cited References in the 80's
- Message-ID: <1340@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 22:10:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.193350.7926@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Nov.19.15.43.08.1992.6763@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Nov.19.15.43.08.1992.6763@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- >Someone at the Institute for Scientific Information (publishers of SCI)
- >once told me that the annual appearance of the Top 10 list is awaited
- >nervously by the people who tend to be on it and that some take falling
- >off it very hard (concomitant loss of prestige, money,etc).
-
- Here's my suggestion: Publish an incorrect list. Everyone who complains
- gets his tenure (or equivalent) revoked. Next suggestion: Physics should
- order authors alphabetically. Final suggestion: all journals drop little
- biographies and pictures of authors, and authors use initials instead
- of names.
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-