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Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, 2011 @04:49AM from the not-well-correlated-with-good-beaches dept.

mikejuk writes "Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers? Using a database and Google Maps the answer is obvious. A paper at Physics arXiv describes how two researchers combined citation data with Google maps to create a plot showing how important cities around the world were in terms of their contribution to physics, chemistry or psychology."

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A typical symptom by ThunderBird89 · 2011-03-20 05:00 · Score: 4, Funny

This is a typical symptom of scientists/researchers having way too much free time on their hands. They need to find a way to spend it properly, or they will kill us all one day.

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Re:Psychology? by WrongSizeGlass · 2011-03-20 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Since when is psychology a science?
Hmm, someone seems to have issues with psychology. Would you like to talk about it? ;-)