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What about this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car
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Jan
2012/4/15 McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] <[log in to unmask]>:
> *** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings ***
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> Colleagues/
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> On April 1 2012, Google announced a new feature to its Scholar service ... called Google Scholar Metrics. The service follows the same principle that has made Google's web search engine so successful - when you are unsure what a user is looking for, give them a list of options ranked by a metric of popularity. In this instance, the users are academics ready to submit their next breakthrough but are uncertain which journal to choose. The solution Scholar Metrics offers is a database summarizing the sway of the distributors of scholarship "to help authors as they consider where to publish their new research".
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> Here's how it works. Google creates a list of all the articles a journal has published in a specified period of time. The citations to each article are counted in order to determine the publication's h-index, which is the largest number "h" such that each of the set of "h" articles were cited "h" or more times. As an example of how the h-index is calculated, consider a publication that has had six total articles having 2, 18, 11, 3, 22, and 9 citations, respectively. This gives the journal an h-index of four. Articles meeting the h-index criterion constitute the h-core. In the example, the core is the articles with 18, 11, 22 and 9 citations. Within the h-core, the median of the citation counts is used to assess the typical influence among the most highly cited set and is reported as the h-median.
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> [more]
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> BTW: What will Google do next? Develop a driverless automobile ? [:-)
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> Gerry McKiernan
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